Full-Time
Lead Advanced Practice Provider
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Deadline 7/30/27
Catholic Health
Long Island health system
No salary listed
West Islip, NY, USA
In Person
Master's, PhD
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Required Skills
ACLS
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Requirements
- A Master's or Doctoral degree from an accredited Physician Assistant program is required.
- A current New York State Physician Assistant license is required.
- National certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants is required.
- Current Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certifications are required.
- At least five years of cardiothoracic surgery or cardiac surgery Physician Assistant experience is required.
- Previous leadership, supervisory, mentoring, or precepting experience is required.
- Excellent clinical judgment, communication, and organizational skills are required.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the clinical resource and leader for the Cardiothoracic Surgery Advanced Practice Provider team.
- Mentor, coach, and support Advanced Practice Providers through onboarding, education, and ongoing professional development.
- Assist with scheduling, staffing coordination, and daily workflow management.
- Foster collaboration among physicians, nursing staff, Advanced Practice Providers, and ancillary departments.
- Perform comprehensive preoperative assessments, history and physical examinations, and risk stratification.
- Manage cardiothoracic surgery patients throughout the perioperative continuum.
- Conduct daily rounds in the intensive care unit, step-down, and inpatient units.
- Evaluate and manage postoperative patients, including chest tube management, pacing wires, anticoagulation, wound care, pain management, and discharge planning.
- Participate in first assisting in the operating room, endovascular procedures, and radial harvesting as appropriate.
- Respond to urgent patient care needs and participate in call coverage.
- Lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
- Develop and implement evidence-based clinical protocols and best practices.
- Monitor operational and clinical performance metrics to improve patient outcomes and departmental efficiency.
- Support regulatory compliance, accreditation standards, and documentation excellence.
- Partner with cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiology, critical care, nursing leadership, case management, rehabilitation services, and other multidisciplinary teams.
- Serve as the liaison between APP staff and physician leadership.
- Promote teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Supervise APPs in the service.
- Assign on-call schedules and vacation and holiday time, and complete monthly schedules and payroll for APPs in the service.
- Assign APPs to operative cases requiring surgical assistants.
- Participate with the Human Resources Department in recruiting APPs for the service.
- Assist with completing job evaluations for current APPs in the service.
- Represent the service with hospital departments and groups to help resolve problems.
- Oversee the efficient functioning of the service, including compiling necessary statistics.
- Develop case protocols for presentation at monthly Performance Improvement conferences.
- Perform chart reviews and investigations as requested.
- Make recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of APP staffing and on-call coverage.
- Compile monthly inpatient and outpatient admissions and surgical statistics.
- Prepare and present protocols for cases with quality-improvement issues at the monthly Departmental Performance Improvement meeting.
- Delegate responsibilities to another APP during the Lead's absence from the hospital.
- Perform other assigned duties as necessary.
Desired Qualifications
- Previous cardiothoracic surgery supervision experience is preferred.
- Experience managing postoperative cardiothoracic surgery patients in the intensive care unit and inpatient setting is preferred.
- Experience with quality improvement, workflow optimization, and APP program development is preferred.
Catholic Health is a Catholic nonprofit health system serving Long Island. The organization operates hospitals, physician practices, ambulatory sites, home care, hospice, rehabilitation, and specialty programs. It serves patients, families, clinicians, referring providers, and communities across Nassau and Suffolk counties. Its operating model centers on mission-based care delivered through hospitals and community settings with shared clinical, technology, and administrative support. Teams work across nursing, physicians, allied health, home care, rehabilitation, technology, facilities, administration, and patient services. Teams support coordinated daily delivery.
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