Seattle Children's Hospital is seeking a skilled and compassionate Advanced Practice Provider (Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner) to join our world-renowned Craniofacial Center for a limited-term position. As part of the largest craniofacial team in the nation-comprising more than 50 pediatric specialists across 19 disciplines, you will provide comprehensive care to patients with complex congenital and acquired conditions from birth through age 21.
In this limited-term role, you will assume primary responsibility for the clinical management of pediatric patients across a full spectrum of care environments, including ambulatory clinics, the operating room, the emergency department, and inpatient units.
Key Responsibilities
As a Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery APP, your day-to-day will involve a dynamic mix of clinical, procedural, and collaborative duties:
Clinical Management: Obtain comprehensive patient histories, perform detailed physical examinations, and develop evidence-based treatment plans for complex conditions (such as cleft lip and palate, craniosynostosis, Robin sequence, and facial microsomia).
Diagnostics & Treatment: Order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests (including advanced 3-D imaging and genetic screenings). Safely prescribe medications and manage therapies tailored to pediatric surgical needs.
Surgical & Procedural Support: Perform specialized procedures and provide vital pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative support across outpatient, inpatient, and operating room settings. Assist with innovative therapies like nasoalveolar molding (NAM) and distraction osteogenesis.
Continuum of Care: Direct and participate in comprehensive case management, prenatal counseling, and continuing care transitions for patients and families traveling from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Partner closely with an expansive network of craniofacial pediatricians, plastic surgeons, oral/maxillofacial surgeons, and orthodontists to deliver safe, integrated, and high-quality care.
Quality & Innovation: Contribute actively to organizational and departmental continuous performance, outcomes research, and clinical quality improvement projects.
Education & Research: Participate in clinical research efforts and provide meaningful education and cleft/feeding instruction to patients, families, and fellow healthcare team members.
Learn More About Our Team
To discover more about our groundbreaking treatments, our multidisciplinary clinics, and the inspiring pediatric patient families we serve every day, explore the Seattle Children's Craniofacial Center.
Required Education and Experience:
Master's degree in nursing with a concentration in a pediatric or family nurse practitioner program OR graduate of a nationally accredited physician assistant program.
One year work experience in a pediatric or family focused clinical area.
Required Credentials:
For Nurse Practitioners:
Active, unencumbered registered nurse and advanced registered nurse practitioner licensure in the State of Washington.
Current national certification as a pediatric or family nurse practitioner
For Physician Assistants:
Active, unencumbered physician assistant licensure in the State of Washington
Initial certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants
For All Providers:
Active Drug Enforcement Authority registration
Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Professionals is required at time of hire and to be maintained continuously throughout employment. American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) will also be accepted in lieu of BLS for Healthcare Professionals.
Some clinical locations may require American Heart Association Pediatric Life Support training and continuous maintenance of certification.
Active clinical privileges as an Allied Health Provider at Seattle Children's Hospital must be secured prior to time of hire and must be maintained in good standing and in compliance with all medical staff bylaws, continuously throughout employment.
Preferred:
Two years experience in advanced practice provider role
Two years experience in pediatric health care
Compensation Range
$137,321 - $201,961 per year
Salary Information
This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.
Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants
This compensation range is specific to Seattle, positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors.
Benefits Information
Seattle Children's offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits.
About Us
Hope. Care. Cure. These three simple words capture what we do at Seattle Children's - to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Are you ready to engage with a mission-driven organization that is life-changing to many, and touches the hearts of all? #HOPECARECURE
Our founding promise to the community is as valid today as it was over a century ago: we will care for all children in our region, regardless of the families' ability to pay. Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric and adolescent, academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho - the largest region of any children's hospital in the country.
U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Seattle Children's among the nation's best children's hospitals. For more than a decade, Seattle Children's has been nationally recognized in key specialty areas. We are honored to be one of the nation's very best places to care for children and the top-ranked pediatric hospital in Washington and the Pacific Northwest.
As a Magnet designated institution, we recognize the importance of hiring and developing great talent to provide best-in-class care to the patients and families we serve. Our organizational DNA takes form in our core values: Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Equity and Innovation. Whether it's delivering frontline care to our patients in a kind and caring manner, practicing the highest standards of quality and safety, or being relentlessly curious as we work towards eradicating childhood diseases, these values are the fabric of our culture and community. The future starts here.
Our Commitment
Seattle Children's welcomes people of all experiences, backgrounds, and thoughts as this is what drives our spirit of inquiry and allows us to better connect with our patients and families. Our organization recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes based on merit without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
The people who work at Seattle Children's are members of a community that seeks to respect and celebrate all the qualities that make each of us unique. Each of us is empowered to be ourselves.
Seattle Children's is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Workplace and Affirmative Action Employer.