Endocrine - Nurse Practitioner - Cedar Rapids, IA - UnityPoint Health

UnityPoint Clinic is actively recruiting for an Endocrine Advanced Practitioner to join our team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.    

Choose a career that matters at UnityPoint Health. At UnityPoint Health, we believe that our patient-centered vision and physician-driven philosophy, along with our one team approach, ensures every patient knows just how much they matter to this world. Commitment to our team has earned us recognition as a Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare 2022 by Becker’s Healthcare and among America’s Best Employers By State in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Come be an essential part of our core purpose—to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.  At UnityPoint Health, you matter.

UnityPoint Clinic is a physician-led, nonprofit health care organization offering comprehensive services in primary care, walk-in care and specialty care. The clinical teams at the area’s clinics are improving outcomes, lowering the number of hospital readmissions and reducing avoidable costs associated with treating chronic conditions. The UnityPoint Clinic team is known for excellence and quality patient care putting patients at the center of their care to provide the best level of health and well-being.

UnityPoint Health – Cedar Rapids serves a seven-county area surrounding Cedar Rapids. St. Luke’s Hospital is the only hospital in Cedar Rapids designated as a Top 50 Heart Hospital six times, has been named a top 50 Hospital in the Nation by Healthgrades, named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by IBM Watson Health eight times and also has been honored six times as Becker’s Hospital Review ‘100 Great Hospitals in America’. St. Luke’s is also a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence.

• Established team of 1 physician and 1 Advanced Practitioner
• Diabetes Self-Management program staffed with Certified Diabetes Educators (RN’s and Dietitians)
• Healthy Living Program, a medically managed weight loss program supported by Dietitians and a Health Coach
• Experienced staff, both clinical and non-clinical, who know the patients and the community
• Full-time position, including dedicated administrative time
• 24/7 hospitalist program is responsible for adult inpatients
• Fully integrated system with clinics and hospitals on EPIC EMR to improve care coordination

• Outpatient clinic only; Adult patients 18+
• Clinic hours Monday – Friday 8AM-5PM
• No nights or weekends
• Shared call amongst the providers. Triaged through MyNurse
• Opportunity to work with patients with diabetes on an outpatient basis.
• Provide diabetes education and management to our patients and families
• Focus on planning, supervising treatments, and monitoring of diabetes related health concerns.
• Evaluate and treat multiple endocrine diseases.
• Work in collaboration with Diabetes Educators from an ADA Accredited Diabetes Self-Management program.
• Coordinating care of patients and working in collaboration with the patient’s primary care provider.
• Exercises independent judgements in the assessment, coordination, management and evaluation of certain medical processes and procedures, under the guidelines of the scope of practice and medical protocols.
• Ability to work as a team member to improve the health of the people and communities we serve

• Experienced Endocrine Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• Board Certified
• Hold an unrestricted medical license in the state of Iowa
• Hold current and unrestricted state and federal authority to prescribe and administer medications as necessary or appropriate to the Advanced Practitioners field of practice
• Eligible to work in the United States

We offer

• Salary based position with performance incentive
• Attractive incentive package
• A competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what stage of life you are in.
• Generous time off and CME allowance, malpractice insurance, retirement contributions and more
• Dedicated provider resources to positively impact providers work-life balance
• Eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, including a free third-party service for loan restructuring and consolidation.
• A commitment to ensuring you have a voice that is heard regardless of role, race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. 
• Support and development opportunities that are a crucial part of delivering a remarkable employment experience. 
• A culture guided by uncompromising values and unwavering belief in doing what’s right for the people we serve.

Community Details

Cedar Rapids

Vibrant, unique and industrious, Cedar Rapids is one of Iowa’s centers of excellence for arts and culture and an economic hub of the state’s Eastern region. As the second-largest city in the state, “The City of Five Seasons” offers its residents a wide variety of amenities, attractions and career opportunities on par with its nearby, out-of-state counterparts (Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis) without the high cost of living, hustle and bustle. Learn more about Cedar Rapids and why it offers one of the best places to live, work and play in the Midwest.