Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant, After Hours Call Program

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham. The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.

Our After Hours Call Program aims to provide virtual visits, telephonic support, and clinical guidance to our patients when our primary care practices aren’t open (evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays). If you are a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant looking for an opportunity to work from the comfort of your own home, we are seeking experienced, autonomous APPs to field calls and conduct virtual visits within a clinically appropriate scope. All of our clinical staff members have access to Schmitt-Thompson triage guidelines/protocols, as well as comprehensive patient information via our fully integrated EMR system, Epic. We support the following Mass General Brigham entities: North Shore Physicians Group Mass General Physicians Organization Newton Wellesley Medical Group Mass General Brigham Community Physicians Pentucket Medical Associates Cooley Dickinson Medical Group Harbor Medical Associates Wentworth Health Partners Due to the remote nature of the role, we ensure that our employees receive required technology and training to be proficient and independently productive in all job responsibilities regardless of work location. Employees are responsible for designating a workspace within the remote work location that is private, safe, ergonomic, and free from distractions for all hours worked. At this time, we are looking for per diem weekend coverage with a commitment of 16 hours per month. The shifts are 8 hours in duration between the hours of 8:00am-6:00pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Our per diem APPs are also required to work a minimum of 20 holiday hours per year. Bring your skills to this innovative program and join us in driving medicine forward!

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a licensed provider. The NP is responsible for the assessment and management of various populations of patients, medical and/or surgical, including diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, development of appropriate plans of care and ongoing evaluation. May also perform additional duties, such as precepting a small group of learners. Essential Functions: Provides direct care, counseling, and teaching to a designated patient population in the ambulatory, inpatient, operative, and/or procedural setting. Performs complete histories and physical examinations. Orders, interprets, and evaluates appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests. Develops appropriate plans of care and follow-up based on the outcomes of diagnostic, laboratory, and physical examination findings. Orders medications and writes prescriptions according to organizational and regulatory policies and procedures. Consistently provides high quality and timely documentation including admission and progress notes, procedure notes, operative notes and discharge summaries. Performs bedside procedures as are appropriate to the patient population.