NURSE PRACTITIONER (APRN) OR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - NEUROSURGERY - INPATIENT - BRIDGEPORT - Hartford HealthCare

Outstanding opportunity to join a national leader in Neurosurgery. The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare has a new opportunity available for a Neurosurgery Physician Assistant/APRN to join our Advanced Practice team at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, located in Bridgeport, CT.

Practice autonomously, but collaboratively with a team of attending neurosurgeons and APPs providing advanced specialized care to neurosurgical patients including open spine, MIS Spine and deformity, intracranial cases, neurovascular, peripheral nerve, and neurotrauma, and neuro-interventional radiological cases.

This role will assist in providing 24/7 coverage on the inpatient side of neurosurgery including weekdays (day & night shifts), weekends (day & night shifts), and holidays.

Job details:

• Managing neurosurgical spine and brain patients on the floor and ICU setting.
• Intake H&PEs, progress notes, consultations, pre- and post-operative care, and discharges. 
• Providing neurosurgical consultations in the hospital and in the Emergency Dept. 
• First assisting the attending neurosurgeon with any, including emergency procedures.
• Shifts include 6am-7:00pm or 6pm-7:00am. Totaling 3 shifts per week. 

About the Ayer Neuroscience Institute: 

The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare is a rapidly expanding Institute with a focus on comprehensive patient care, academics, and research. The Institute enjoys the resources of a system committed to excellence in patient quality and experience and an impressive staff of world class Neuroscience leaders.

About Hartford HealthCare (HHC):

HHC employs more than 2,500 providers in over 400 practice locations throughout Connecticut with 7 acute care hospitals, one of the largest academic and surgical hospitals in the northeast, thriving community teaching hospitals, and one of the largest, physician-led, multi-specialty medical groups in New England.

We support your development and wellbeing through the respected Hartford HealthCare’s Office of Advanced Practice - an internal organization committed to the growth and development of our Advanced Practitioners, and the groundbreaking Office of Provider Wellness

All of this means MORE OPPORTUNITY to propel your career to new heights within a deeply embedded culture of inclusion, innovation, and focus on the highest quality of care. We are a collegial group of teachers, researchers, innovators, and, most of all, caregivers.

Location:

Within an hour from New York City and two hours of Boston, Connecticut offers you and your family an exceptional lifestyle.  Enjoy the finest schools in the nation, four beautiful seasons of recreational activities, and options to live at the shore, in leafy suburbs, or in vibrant urban areas.