Director - Advanced Practice, Southeast Region – Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine - Charlotte NC

Overview

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. We invite Experienced Advanced Practice Providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together in our Southeast Region – Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine team at Atrium Health - Charlotte, NC.

Job Summary

Atrium Health is seeking candidates for the Director of Advanced Practice, Southeast Region – Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. The successful candidate will guide the division in Advanced Care Practitioner (ACP) strategy, workforce planning, operations and optimization efforts. In this role, you will be responsible for partnering with physician and administrative care division leaders in decision-making as an ACP representative in service line operational meetings. The Director of Advanced Practice leads departmental Chief ACPs and serve in an ACP leader role for those departments that do not have a designated Chief ACP.

Essential Functions

• Performs the duties and responsibilities of a Specialty Care ACP job.
• Maintains a clinical practice (minimum of 20% of time).
• Responsible for addressing, tracking and resolving quality concerns.
• Liaison to the Center for Advanced Practice and the MGD ACP Committee.
• Ensures ACP scope of practice is adhered to by annual review of Levine Cancer Institute (LCI) service line collaborative practice agreements and delineation of privileges document. Serves as a liaison to Center for Advanced Practice and Medical Staff Services for coordination of amendments to those documents.
• Responsible for communicating system, state, and national policy changes involving ACP practice to their service line ACPs.
• Serves as an expert in ACP billing, physician-ACP shared billing and other ACP reimbursement issues for service line.
• Serves as the liaison for all ACP student clinical placement requests within service line.
• Assists in the review and development of clinical and operational policies and procedures.
• Networks and builds relationships with local ACP organizations and universities to ensure continued recruitment efforts including the Center for Advanced Practice ACP Fellowship.
• Serves as a liaison to collaborating physicians, ACPs, patients, nursing units and others as necessary.
• Attends and participates in meetings and committees as designated.
• Onboarding of ACPs into division (privileges, payer enrollment, service line orientation & contract deployment).
• Responsible for budgeting, ACP workforce planning & innovation.
• Tracking ACP metrics/scorecard (quality/patient experience) for Service Line/Care divisions.
• Accountable for operationalizing any major initiatives of the medical group for ACPs (contracts, compensation, incentives, campaigns) for LCI Care Division.
• Conducts exit interviews for ACPs exiting the Service Line/Care Division.
• Responsible for leading ACP Recognition for Service Line/Care Division, including a repository for connect to purpose stories involving ACPs.
   

Education, Experience and Certifications

• Minimum of 2 years of management or supervisory experience required.
• At least 5 years of clinical experience required in at least one specialty of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care or Sleep Medicine.
• Master’s Degree required; Doctorate of Nursing Practice preferred. 
• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of practice of North Carolina or South Carolina respectively. 
• Approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner in state in which work is being completed. South Carolina Nurse Practitioners must be eligible for prescriptive authority application through the Board of Nursing. 
• Must have or be eligible for a DEA license. 
• Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider from AHA required. Expiration date must be more than 90 days from date of beginning practice. 
• Certification in the area of practice from a nationally recognized certifying body required. 
• Board certification preferred according to population served. 
• Demonstrates appropriate critical thinking, interpersonal skills, and the ability to prioritize and concentrate. 

When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.