Teaching Associate, Advanced Practice Provider, Inpatient Service - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
Position Overview
Organization: Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
Title: Teaching Associate, Advanced Practice Provider, Inpatient Service - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
Position Details
Position Description
Join the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the University of Washington. The University of Washington is one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions and our orthopaedic surgeons cover five campuses including Harborview Medical Center, the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital, the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Northwest Hospital and Medical Center. Our faculty not only enjoy outstanding benefits and opportunities for professional growth, but also a regional environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. UW Medicine works to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge while providing outstanding primary and specialty care to people throughout the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) region.
We are recruiting an Advanced Practice Provider—Physician Assistant (PA-C) or ARNP—to partner with our orthopaedic surgeons on the inpatient Orthopaedic Service at the University of Washington Medical Center. Duties and responsibilities will be to assist our faculty in the care of both inpatient and outpatients who are undergoing orthopaedic surgery. The Advanced Practice Provider will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary health team that in addition to attending orthopaedic surgeons includes primary care and hospitalist services, rehabilitation physicians, orthopaedic residents, other advanced practice providers and nurses. Our APPs are given Teaching Associate positions within the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at UW and so will have similarly excellent employment benefits to those offered to our faculty. This is a full-time positions on a 12-month appointment (July 1-June 30) with annual renewal. We are anticipating a spring 2022 start date.
Benefits include: full malpractice indemnification (including tail coverage), medical/dental/vision benefits, UWRP retirement plan, paid vacation, long-term disability and CME. Competitive salary offered.
Qualifications
1. Current Washington State Physician Assistant License or ARNP license, or ability to obtain one prior to employment.
2. Graduate Degree from an accredited PA or ARNP program. Nationally certified PA-C or ARNP with DEA.
3. Proven excellence working in an interdisciplinary collaborative team environment in school or in practice and possess effective interpersonal skills, leadership skills, and communication skills.
Preferred: Experience in orthopaedic care preferred, but we can train motivated and talented individuals. Flexibility of the applicant in terms of weekly work schedule would be advantageous.
Instructions
Please upload your CV, cover letter and email addresses for three references.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.
Commitment to Diversity
The University of Washington is committed to building diversity among its faculty, librarian, staff, and student communities, and articulates that commitment in the UW Diversity Blueprint (http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). Additionally, the University’s Faculty Code recognizes faculty efforts in research, teaching and/or service that address diversity and equal opportunity as important contributions to a faculty member’s academic profile and responsibilities (https://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/FCG/FCCH24.html#2432).
COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements and Information
Under Washington State Governor Inslee’s Proclamation 21-14.1, University of Washington (UW) workers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof thereof, or receive a UW-approved medical or religious exemption. This requirement will be a condition of any offer associated with this recruitment. For more information, please visit https://www.washington.edu/coronavirus/vaccination-requirement/.