Surgery - General Nurse Practitioner

NP/PA Pediatric Plastic Surgery Opportunity In Greenville, NC

ECU Health Physicians and ECU Health Plastic Surgery, located in Greenville, North Carolina, are expanding and seeking a Physician Assistant or Family Nurse Practitioner to join their growing plastic surgery practice. The successful candidate will have a primary focus on pediatric plastic surgery but, depending on qualification, will treat patients of all ages when needed. Clinical responsibilities will include primarily working with pediatric patients in an outpatient clinic with additional responsibilities as needed with rounding, consults, and to a more limited degree with OR first assist. Nurse Practitioner applicants will need the RNFA certification before first assisting . Applicants with at least 2 years of pediatric experience as a provider are preferred.

Opportunity Highlights:

• Employment by ECU Health Physicians
• Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, a 974-bed level 1 trauma center and eastern North Carolina s destination for adult and pediatric trauma care
• Established comprehensive plastic surgery practice with 5 surgeons and 3 Advanced Practice Providers
• Ability to work with a craniofacial surgeon and pediatric subspecialty teams as well as hospital staff and administrators to develop a multidisciplinary cleft palate/craniofacial program in support of a future application for ACPA accreditation
• Additional clinical practice and responsibility will include care of all pediatric plastic surgery patients including pediatric trauma patients
• Monday-Friday schedule
• Excellent mentorship
• Expansive referral network consisting of 29 counties and over 1.4 million people
• BLS from The American Heart Association Required
• Full provider benefit package including relocation

ECU Health

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research.

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

Greenville, NC

Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10 th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Uptown Greenville district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine, and Pitt Community College. Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!

• Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh, a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of NC
• Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students
• Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping
• Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities
• Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private
• Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville s revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses, and residents to the area