Full Job Description
We are seeking a highly motivated Advanced Practice Provider to join the Children’s Heart Institute ICU at UTHealth Houston. Our APPs help provide front-line patient care as part of our multidisciplinary team. Located in the Texas Medical Center, UTHealth Houston is a leading academic health center and in partnership with Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital our program ranks among the top nationally in Cardiology and Heart surgery. The Children’s Heart Institute is committed to the professional development of our APPs and takes pride in fostering a collaborative team environment.
Schedule: Rotating 12-hour shifts – days, nights, and weekends.
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
Once you join us you won’t want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as…
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
- Plus many more!
Position Summary:
Provides advanced medical care to patients with complex acute, critical, and/or chronic health conditions in a clinic or hospital setting in one or more specialized areas under the direction of a physician.
Position Key Accountabilities:
- Provides advanced medical care to patients with congenital heart disease and complex acute, pre-/post-surgical, and/or chronic health conditions in an inpatient setting.
- Follows established delegation protocols to manage specific patient problems. Formulates a plan of care in collaboration with other health care professionals and documents the plan in the patient’s medical record.
- Coordinates, directs, and implements the patient’s plan of care including follow up with consult services as necessary.
- Orders appropriate laboratory, diagnostic and radiographic tests. Provides initial preliminary interpretation of basic imaging and studies (i.e. ECG, XR). Ensures timely follow-up of all results.
- Completes regular follow up at the patient bedside to evaluate the daily plan of care and informs the supervising physician of pertinent medical information or changes in patient status.
- Facilitates patient and family education relating to medical processes, medication, nutrition, and health promotion or preventative health care.
- Maintains accurate & timely documentation.
- Responds to emergency situations including code response throughout the hospital and assists in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ECPR in the ICU.
- Attends regularly scheduled education sessions to enhance understanding of a patient’s physiology and improve overall patient care.
- Performs physical examinations and provides episodic care or problem oriented care under the supervision of a physician.
- Performs within the scope of practice prescribed by licensure and certification.
- Performs other duties and procedures as assigned to facilitate team productivity.
Certification/Skills:
- Proficient in the use of medical and surgical instruments and equipment required by work.
- Physician Assistant State Licensure (PA) by Texas Board of Physician Assistants required
- Physician Assistant – Certified (PA-C) by National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) required
- Basic Life Support (BLS) by American Heart Association (AHA) required or
- Clinical specialty certification determined by the department required
Minimum Education:
Master’s degree as Physician Assistant. Bachelor’s degree as Physician Assistant with at least two years of professional experience in the role is acceptable based on terminal degree requirements at the time of graduation.
Minimum Experience:
None; previous experience in area of clinical focus preferred.
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.
Veteran Information:
Residency Requirement:
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.