Advanced Practice Provider -- Lifespark Medical Group

Advanced Practice Providers are key members of the Lifespark Medical Group primary care practice. We deliver primary care to frail and complex seniors living in a variety of settings including Community, independent living, assisted living, memory care, long term care, and transitional care units.  We utilize a combination of in-person and telehealth visits inside a multidisciplinary team-based model. Clients and their caregivers receive expert, accessible, and compassionate care.

This collaborative and dynamic medical practice is led by industry experts in geriatrics and senior care services. It is delivered under the umbrella of a larger Lifespark enterprise which provides whole person senior care to broad populations of seniors. Lifespark has value-based arrangements with payers which allows clinicians to practice independent of traditional healthcare and payment constraints. These payment methodologies allow clinicians to practice the way they always envisioned when they chose to join the caring profession. And you will be part of a team that focuses on the seniors who need you the most!

This position requires deep understanding of what high value care means and what is required to deliver it inside the trusted relationship between clinicians, clients, families, and senior living staff. High clinical acumen in geriatrics, strong listening skills, a desire to mentor, high level of flexibility and robust organizational skills are required strengths.

Position: Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Provider

Salary: $120,000 - $140,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: Twin Cities Metro area. Plus, mileage reimbursement of 72.5 cents per mile.

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, Full - Time / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm (volunteer opportunities for on-call, no weekends, and holiday rotation within the team)

Lifespark Benefits Include:   

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable} 
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time 
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires 
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance 
• Life Insurances 
• 401k Company Match for full-time and part-time employees 
• Referral bonuses 
• Career path to other positions within our growing company! 

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

• Builds relationships with patients and caregivers to ensure high value outcomes are obtained.
• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines, assessment tools, standards, processes to deliver best in class geriatric care.
• Performs focused and comprehensive assessments to develop an overall health care plan.
• Manages acute and chronic health conditions timely and effectively, based on member acuity.
• Follows up on interventions, consults and changes in health treatment plan.
• Documents accurately and timely to reflect the member’s health status.
• Collaborates with Lifespark team when member requires support, community services or other health related support services.
• Communicates regularly with member, family, pertinent health services staff, including care conferences when appropriate.
• Communicates with subspecialists and primary care providers in the community as needed
• Integrates self into a team-based model of physicians, advance practice registered nurses, registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, social workers, home health workers and team assistants.
• While on-call after business hour work is paid separately and designed to be voluntary, it may be required under some circumstances
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• New Grads with Acute Care experience is considered.
• A current Minnesota APRN and RN license and DEA license
• Certification in Geriatrics preferred OR strong experience required.
• Board certification through ANCC or AANP
• Meet threshold criteria/qualifications for Credentialing and Privileges.
• Communicates effectively in verbal, written, and electronic methods.
• Able to work in non-traditional settings (client homes, nursing homes, and from home)
• Ability to develop strong and positive relationships with patients, caregivers, and team members
• Comfortable with complexity.
• Strong knowledge of medical management and commitment to use of evidence when it exists and acknowledgement when it does not.
• Interest in managing problems holistically including attention to cognitive, functional and psychosocial domains
• Strong communication skills
• Creative problem solver
• Strong customer service qualities including empathy, positivity, desire to serve, resourcefulness and reliability
• Independently motivated yet possesses a collaborative spirit and desire to be part of a team

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.