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About the Role

Good Samaritan University Hospital is seeking an experienced Lead Advanced Practice Provider (Physician Assistant) to provide clinical and operational leadership for their Cardiothoracic Surgery Program. This role involves direct patient care, mentoring APP staff, optimizing clinical operations, and advancing quality initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the clinical resource and leader for the Cardiothoracic Surgery APP team.
• Mentor, coach, and support APPs through onboarding, education, and ongoing professional development.
• Assist with scheduling, staffing coordination, and daily workflow management.
• Foster collaboration between physicians, nursing, APPs, 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 ICU, step-down, and inpatient units.
• Evaluate and manage post-operative patients, including chest tube management, pacing wires, anticoagulation, wound care, pain management, and discharge planning.
• Participate in first assisting in the operating room, endovascular 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 a culture of teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Supervise APPs in their service.
• Assign on-call schedules, vacation/holiday time, and complete monthly schedules and payroll for APPs.
• Assign APPs to operative cases requiring surgical assistants.
• Participate in the recruitment of APPs.
• Assist in completing job evaluations for current APPs.
• Serve as a representative of the Service with various hospital departments to resolve problems.
• Assume responsibility for the efficient functioning of the service, including compiling necessary statistics.
• Develop case protocols for Performance Improvement conferences.
• Perform chart reviews and investigations.
• Make recommendations regarding efficient/effective functioning of APPs concerning staffing and on-call.
• Compile monthly in and out-patient admissions and surgical statistics.
• Prepare and present protocols of cases with QI issues at the monthly Departmental PI meeting.
• Designate responsibilities to another APP during absence.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Previous Cardiothoracic Surgery supervision experience preferred.
• Master's or Doctoral degree from an accredited Physician Assistant program.
• Current New York State PA license.
• National certification - NCCPA.
• Current BLS and ACLS certifications.
• Minimum of five years of cardiothoracic surgery or cardiac surgery PA experience.
• Previous leadership, supervisory, mentoring, or precepting experience.
• Excellent clinical judgment, communication, and organizational skills.
• Experience managing post-operative cardiothoracic surgery patients in the ICU and inpatient setting.
• Experience with quality improvement, workflow optimization, and APP program development.

Skills

• Clinical leadership
• Mentoring
• Coaching
• Staffing coordination
• Workflow management
• Collaboration
• Preoperative assessment
• Perioperative management
• Patient evaluation and management
• Post-operative care
• Chest tube management
• Pacing wire management
• Anticoagulation management
• Wound care
• Pain management
• Discharge planning
• First assisting in the operating room
• Endovascular procedures
• Radial harvesting
• Urgent patient care
• Call coverage
• Quality improvement
• Patient safety
• Clinical protocol development
• Best practice implementation
• Performance metric monitoring
• Regulatory compliance
• Accreditation standards
• Documentation excellence
• Interdisciplinary team collaboration
• Liaison communication
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Continuous improvement
• Surgical assistant duties
• Human resources
• Recruitment
• Job evaluations
• Problem resolution
• Statistics compilation
• Performance Improvement conference presentation
• Chart review
• Investigation
• Staffing recommendations
• On-call recommendations

Location

• West Islip, New York

Work Type

• Full-Time
• Call Rotation Required

Experience Level

• Minimum of five years of cardiothoracic surgery or cardiac surgery PA experience.
• Previous leadership, supervisory, mentoring, or precepting experience.

Education Level

• Master's or Doctoral degree from an accredited Physician Assistant program.

About the Company

• Good Samaritan University Hospital is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Lead Advanced Practice Provider (Physician Assistant) to provide clinical and operational leadership for our growing Cardiothoracic Surgery Program.
• This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished APP to combine advanced clinical practice with leadership responsibilities while working alongside an outstanding team of cardiothoracic surgeons, physicians, nurses, and multidisciplinary professionals.