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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.

We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Per Diem Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) to support clinical operations in our Virtual Clinical Support team. The APP will be responsible for providing patient care, focusing on tasks such as virtual consultations, refill requests, care coordination, and supporting clinical teams with non-direct patient interactions. This role plays a critical part in ensuring patients receive continuous, high-quality care while the overall efficiency of healthcare delivery, reducing primary care burden, and enhancing patient outcomes.

 

Job Summary

Clinical In basket Management

• Prescription Refills: Handle routine prescription refill requests, review patient history, and ensure that refills are appropriate, reducing the administrative burden on PCPs.
• Patient Messages: Respond to patient inquiries or concerns that come through the EHR, addressing issues that do not require the direct involvement of the PCP.
• Out of Office Coverage: Review incoming lab results, flagging abnormal findings, and initiating follow-up actions as necessary.
• Virtual Visits
• Same Day/Next Visit: Perform virtual consultations for non-urgent issues, providing preliminary assessments and management plans, escalating cases to the PCP when needed.
• Chronic Disease Management: Manage chronic conditions through virtual visits, ensuring patients adhere to their care plans, making adjustments as needed, supporting PCPs in ongoing care.
• Care Coordination
• Referral Management: Manage referrals to specialists or other healthcare services, ensuring that patients are directed to the right level of care in a timely manner.
• Communication Liaison: They act as a liaison between the patient, PCP, and other specialists, ensuring that communication flows smoothly and that care plans are followed.
• Patient Education: Provide patients with education on their conditions, treatment plans, and self-care strategies during virtual interactions.

Quality & Process Improvement:

• Innovation: Participates in continuous process improvement, including thoughtful engagement with process consideration for how to adjust and refine process, providing feedback to leadership as appropriate, and willingness to try new ways of accomplishing overall team goals.
• Quality Assurance: Participate in quality improvement initiatives and ensure compliance with clinical guidelines and organizational policies.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated on the latest clinical practices, telehealth trends, and EPIC EHR functionalities to enhance patient care and efficiency.

 

Qualifications

Qualifications

When hiring, we look for candidates who possess not only the relevant skills and competencies, but also positive attitudes, emotional intelligence, and genuine passion for this work.

Education:

Master’s Degree in Nursing or Physician Assistant Studies required

Experience:

3+ years experience as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant preferred

Certification:

Certified Massachusetts & New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant required upon hire

 

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

Additional_Job_Description

 

Remote Type

Remote

 

Work Location

Two Corporation Way

 

Scheduled Weekly Hours

0

 

Employee Type

Regular

 

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

 

Pay Range

$57.88 - $81.95/Hourly

 

Grade

7

 

At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth. We invite you to apply, and our Talent Acquisition team will provide an overview of your potential compensation and benefits package.

 

EEO Statement:

Mass General Brigham Medical Group Northern Massachusetts, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.

 

Mass General Brigham Competency Framework

At Mass General Brigham, our competency framework defines what effective leadership “looks like” by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused, half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance, make hiring decisions, identify development needs, mobilize employees across our system, and establish a strong talent pipeline.