Lead Emergency Advanced Practice Provider

Summary Of Duties

Reasonable Accommodations Statement 

 To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

 Essential Functions Statement(s) 

 Lead Emergency Advanced Practice Provider Duties

• Enthusiastically accepts and endorses TEC’s core values of Do Something Good, Empathy, Zeal, and Accountability. 
• Leads by example. Actively works to instill TEC culture among the APP team. 
• In conjunction with the COO, assists in the development and maintenance of a process for the recruitment of qualified emergency medicine APPs that fit the TEC culture.  
• Ensures appropriate orientation and training of providers in compliance with TEC and hospital policies and consistent with department needs. 
• Promotes APP growth by conducting monthly Touch Base sessions and regular performance reviews that provide useful, objective, constructive feedback. 
• Maintains knowledge of TEC and Hospital policies and procedures and acts as subject matter expert for APP team. Works with HR and legal team when necessary. 
• Participates in resolving APP conflicts. Provides mediation, correction, guidance, and feedback in a timely manner when necessary. 
• Participates in creation and maintenance of APP policies and procedures. 
• Meets regularly with the COO and applicable physician leadership to address issues and further initiatives. 
• Works closely with the Practice Manager team to create the APP schedule at least 90 days out with an emphasis on complete schedules and equitable shift distribution. 
• Works closely with the Practice Manager team to address any call offs or open shifts that need to be filled as well as emergencies that occur mid-shift. 
• Monitors patient experience and patient flow. In conjunction with the COO and physician leadership, designs and implements process improvement strategies to improve and optimize these areas. 
• Ensures APP team is aware of and compliant with TEC, department, hospital, and medical staff policies. 
• Ensures APP team is completing and signing charts in a timely manner.   
• Performs quality assurance and leads improvement initiatives within the department as needed. 
• Conducts frequent, regular APP team chart reviews in accordance with TEC policy. 
• Attends meetings as requested. Assists with moving initiatives from those meetings forward. 
• Maintains familiarity with the hospital’s Medical Staff Bylaws/Rules and Regulations and with the Delineation of Privileges (“DoP”) for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants at the hospital.  
• Ensures APP team compliance with DoPs. 
• Provides recommendations for DoP requests that are in alignment with state regulatory Scope of Practice. 
• Assists with development, implementation, and monitoring of procedural competency assessments and training including the minimum procedures (if any) required to be performed by APPs to maintain those privileges. Effectively manages transparency and the communications between various constituencies. 
• Serves as the hub of effective and transparent communication between the APPs, physician leadership, members of the clinical team, and Hospital and Nursing Leadership. 
• Investigates and responds to patient complaints or grievances related to APP patient care. 
• NIGHTRIDER LEAD: Acts as a gatekeep for the NightRider program to ensure that only qualified APPs work within the program.