What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Practice Provider II Child Care position at Franklin County (NC)?
Compensation:
Estimated Hiring Salary Range: $101,556-$104,095
**To Be Determined Based on Experience and Qualifications**
Benefits:
Franklin County offers a competitive benefits package designed to encourage and support your health, well-being and productivity. Benefit options include medical and dental insurance; elective supplemental insurance options such as short-term disability, vision, and voluntary term life; local government retirement; 401(k) with a 4% employer contribution (no employee match required); generous paid leave that includes 13 county-observed paid holidays per year; an employee wellness program inclusive of a county sponsored gym and an employee assistance program.
For more information about Franklin County benefit options please click here https://www.franklincountync.gov/194/Benefits-Summary.
To provide advanced level professional medical care within the Franklin Health Department’s Outpatient Clinics, consistent with the appropriate scope of practice of the licensure held by the employee (i.e., PA, NP). As an employee in this role, the Advanced Practice Provider-III (APP-III), has received specialized training to function within a multidisciplinary configuration of providers delivering safe and high-quality patient care are primarily within the FCHD’s Child Health Clinics.Before performing in this role, the physician-assistant or nurse practitioner must be approved to practice medical acts, tasks, or functions by the appropriate State Board as directed by the associated practice act. An employee at this level functions in a work environment that requires more independent judgements in planning and maintaining total medical care for a patient. The employee may provide sophisticated medical care with less physician supervision and, in addition, supervise and coordinate the nursing and medical services of a work area.Licensed as a Physician Assistant by the North Carolina Medical
Board or approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or Certified Nurse Midwife by the North Carolina
Board of Nursing and the North Carolina Medical Board and one year of experience as an APP. Training and/or experience in Child Health and Immunizations required. Licensed as a Physician Assistant by the North Carolina Medical Board or approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner by the North Carolina Board of Nursing and the North Carolina Medical Board. North Carolina Driver’s License.
The following are immunizations that we require for all employees prior to the first date of employment:
- Two step TST (skin test) If you have had a negative TST within the last 12 months, you must have another one completed prior to employment.
- Proof of MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) immunity: You must have documentation of two doses of measles, mumps and rubella given at least 28 days apart or laboratory evidence of immunity or laboratory confirmation of disease.
- Hepatitis B series: Either evidence of 3 doses; signed declination form or lab evidence of immunity
- Evidence of Tdap vaccine
- Evidence of varicella immunity: You must have documentation of two doses of varicella given at least 28 days apart or a history of varicella or herpes zoster based on physician diagnosis or laboratory evidence of immunity or laboratory confirmation of disease.
Salary : $101,556 - $104,095