Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner

Job Detail

• Job Title:

  Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner

• Department:

  81026-Center for Perioperative Medicine

• Location:

  Farmington

• FTE%:

  1

• Shift

  1

• Search #:

  2026-153

• Closing Date:

  10/06/2025

• Recruiter:

  McNamara, Elizabeth

Additional Links:

• This position is Benefit eligible; click here for an overview of available benefits.
• This position is covered by the UHP Bargaining Unit; click here to review the current UHP Contract.
• This position is in Salary group UHP-18; click here to review the current UHP Pay Plan.

UConn Health is looking for a highly skilled Physician Assistant or an APRN with Operating Room experience. This position is accountable for independently performing a full range of tasks in delivery of direct clinical care services to optimize patient condition prior to surgery and outcomes after surgery. This position will work in the Center of Perioperative Medicine, Prehabilitation Clinic and the Main Operating Rom in the John Dempsey Hospital at UConn Health in Farmington.

BENEFITS

• $10,000 sign-on bonus

• $2,000 annual CME allowance.

• Industry leading, affordable access to medical, dental, vision, life and retirement benefits

• Easy access to I-84, Rte 9 and surrounding Greater Hartford communities

• Organizational culture focused on diversity and inclusion, innovation and patient experience

• State of the art, award winning campus environment with ideal parking

SCHEDULE: This is a salaried position, full time 40-hours per week, 8 hour shifts and on-call as required.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

• Provides a broad range of diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services including initial assessment and ongoing medical care

• Works with considerable independence as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team

• Takes medical histories, examines and treats patients/offenders, orders and interprets laboratory tests and x-rays; formulating diagnoses and treatment plans and prescribing medications and monitoring responses to medications and adjusting accordingly

• Documents and records progress notes and notifies attending physician of significant problems

• Performs medical rounds to observe and document pertinent progress of hospitalized patients/offenders

• Orders referrals to specialists as necessary

• Responds to emergency situations

• Counsels and instructs patients/offenders in preventive care and health issues such as effects of nutrition, exercise and prescribed treatments

• Performs minor surgical procedures

• Orders medical devices as necessary

• Attends in-service training programs on various health care services and treatment in conformance with mandated licensure requirements

• Provides education and/or instruction to various health care staff members

• Educates patients/offenders, and guardians regarding disease process

• Communicates to agency health care staff and community providers change in patient/ offender well-being, treatment plan, medication side effects, and appropriateness of daily activities

• May serve on hospital committees

• Performs all related duties as required

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES :

Considerable knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Knowledge of different disciplines and disease states; knowledge of medication and their interactions and reactions. Physical assessment skills; counseling skills; considerable interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills. Ability to perform invasive procedures. Ability to work independently. Ability to work under pressure. Ability to formulate plans of care. Decision making ability.

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING :

General Experience :

• Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain licensure as a Physician Assistant or APRN issued by the Connecticut State Department of Public Heath in accordance with the applicable

• Connecticut Controlled Substance license and DEA license

• Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain a valid license to practice Advance Nursing or Physician Assistant in the State of Connecticut

• Connecticut General Statutes.(Must obtain prior to start of employment)

PREFERRED REQUIREMENT:

• Experience in the preoperative evaluation and preparation of patients for surgery

• Experience working in the operating room performing procedures such as arterial line placement, IV placement, and assisting with starting complex anesthestic cases.

FULL TIME MINIMUM EQUIVALENT SALARY $122,678 more based on experience

WY UCONN HEALTH

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.

Salary : $2,000 - $122,678