Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Metabolic & Weight Loss Surgery

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description:

Join a busy Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery Team providing high-quality, compassionate care for patients undergoing surgical and endoscopic interventions. You will work within a multidisciplinary team (surgeons, APs, dietitians, psychologists, bariatricians, endoscopists, and specialty providers) to manage pre- and post-operative care in an outpatient setting.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Preoperative & Consultative Care:

• New Patient Consults: Conduct initial bariatric surgery consultations alongside psychology and nutrition team members.
• Preoperative Optimization: Coordinate and manage testing, specialty consultations, and final preoperative H&Ps to ensure surgical readiness.
• Endobariatrics Program: Participate in pre- and post-procedure care for endoscopic bariatric interventions, including ESG and TORe.

Longitudinal Patient Management:

• Comprehensive Care: Manage patients throughout the bariatric surgery continuum, from preoperative evaluation through long-term follow-up.
• Flexible Care Delivery: Provide care through both in-person and telehealth visits.
• Clinical Management: Independently order, interpret, and manage diagnostic testing, imaging, laboratory studies, and treatment plans.
• Obesity Medicine: Treat obesity-related comorbidities and manage anti-obesity medications in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Postoperative Care: Evaluate and manage urgent postoperative issues through triage, clinic visits, and coordinated treatment planning.
• Patient Education: Counsel patients on nutrition, exercise, and sustainable lifestyle changes.

• Support Groups: Participate in a rotating schedule for monthly patient support groups (Wednesday evenings).

Locations & Schedule:

• Clinic Sites: Independent clinics at Lahey Clinic (Burlington) and Lahey Peabody.
• Schedule: 4/10-hour days. No weekends, holidays, or call requirements.
• Remote Work: Option for 1 remote day per week.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Graduate of an accredited Master’s in Nursing (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) program.
• Licensure: Current license to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Certifications: Board Certification, DEA, and MCSR are required.
• Experience: New graduates welcome to apply!

Beth Israel Lahey Health, including all of its employing entities, are a purpose-driven, values-based organization that unites our workforce of people who provide exceptional health care to everyone we serve.  All of the employing entities of Beth Israel Lahey Health maintain policies of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination in employment.  Please see here for more information about our purpose and values (https://bilh.org/about/purpose-values) and here for more information about our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy (https://bilh.org/careers/eeo-policy).

Pay Range:

$133,120.00 USD - $215,000.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. 

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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