The Physician Assistant (PA) specializes in family-centered care for infants and toddlers up to age 2, covering all aspects from primary to critical care. Collaborating with healthcare teams, they provide comprehensive services such as history-taking, physical examinations, diagnosis, treatment of acute and chronic conditions, and management of illnesses. This includes ordering and interpreting lab tests and imaging studies, prescribing medications and durable medical equipment, and facilitating necessary referrals. The PA also emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention, and educates patients and families. They play a leadership role within interdisciplinary teams, promoting effective communication, mutual respect, and collaborative decision-making to ensure high-quality patient care. Integrating the latest evidence-based practices with clinical expertise and patient preferences, the PA strives to deliver optimal healthcare at the organizational level.

• Location: 
  Children's Hospital Colorado Level IV NICU in Aurora, CO
• Position Status:
  40 hours per week, eligible for benefits
• Shift:
  6am-6pm or 6pm-6am
  possibility of some 24-hour shifts if desired, to ensure coverage 7 days/week
• Salary Information:
  Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
  Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $130,499.55 to $195,749.32
• Eligible Incentives
  This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $20,000 for qualified external applicants. 
  Relocation assistance available if relocating from 100 miles or greater. 
   

Duties & Responsibilities

• Family Centered Care:  
  • Consistently integrates age specific and culturally diverse concepts into patient care, considering the patient’s chronological age and developmental functioning while advocating for the wishes, capabilities, and resources of the family/caregiver. 
  • Provides patient/family/caregiver with diagnostic & laboratory results as well as actual/potential benefits, limitations, & adverse effects of proposed therapies. 
• Teamwork & Collaboration:  
  • Provides leadership in care management to achieve optimal quality, cost-effective care. 
  • Documents & communicates with healthcare team members to achieve an integrated delivery of pediatric care services. 
  • Makes appropriate referrals and discusses recommendations with patient/family/caregiver.  
• Quality Improvement: 
  • Participates in quality improvement activities or research to improve the care delivery process & patient care outcomes; Uses & communicates results to initiate change in practice 
• Safety:  
  • Is mindful and judicious in monitoring safety, utilizing departmental policies and procedures, utilizing evidence-based practice, and demonstrating critical thinking for patient care management. 
  • PA maintains clinical competency (ability to independently manage and perform at a high level, and takes personal responsibility for obtaining competency as needed). 
  • Orders, prescribes, and/or performs appropriate treatments, therapies, and procedures based on current knowledge, research, and practice. Monitors and evaluates effects of interventions and orders. 
• Informatics:   
  • Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error and support decision making.
    Leadership:  
  • Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance appraisal & peer review, resulting in changes in practice & role performance 
  • Contributes to the professional development of peers/colleagues to improve neonatal health care & to foster the profession’s growth; Integrates ethical considerations & research findings into practice. 
  • Serves as a leader, influencing healthcare/APN practice & policy. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Bachelor’s Degree & Master of Physician Assistant studies (MPA) or Master of Science in Physician Assistant studies (MS-PA)
• Experience
  • Two years’ combined experience in neonatal fellowship or as a PA in a neonatal setting
• Licenses & Certifications
  • Board Certification as a PA
  • BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least six (6) months left before expiration is required upon hire
  •  Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate 
  • and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
  • Colorado Physician’s Assistant License (PA)
  • Prescriptive Authority License

About Children's Hospital Colorado

When you work at Children’s Colorado, you’re more than just a member of our multidisciplinary team. Here, you play a critical role in advancing our mission to improve child healthcare — a vision that has been at the center of our work since 1908.As a comprehensive pediatric healthcare system, we care for kids at all ages and stages of growth, through everyday ailments and extraordinary diagnoses. With four pediatric hospitals, more than 10 specialty care centers and over 1,300 outreach clinics, we proudly see and treat more children than any hospital in the region. Our work has consistently earned us a spot among the best children’s hospitals in the nation, but it’s our team of extraordinary people who make our achievements possible.We’re proud of how far we've come, but our work is far from over. Our goal is to ensure that every child receives personalized care that blends expertise and experience with compassion and a special understanding of what kids need to feel better — so they can get back to being kids.

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