Geisinger·Scranton, Pennsylvania
The trainee will participate in MOUD in community-based settings, receiving clinical training and peer support to initiate MOUD provision, while connecting patients to behavioral health counseling and social supports to ensure retention in care. Responsibilities also include performing initial and ongoing assessments, developing treatment plans, ordering tests and medications, and providing comprehensive patient education and counseling.
Shift: Days (United States of America)
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Worker Type: Fixed Term (Fixed Term)
The Addiction Medicine Advanced Practitioner Training Program will provide integrated mental health and SUD/OUD services, including Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) for PAs and advanced practice nurses (APNs) , in a primary care underserved community-based setting. The overall goal of the APP Trainee Program is to foster robust clinical training and augment expertise among clinicians who will see patients at access points of care and provide mental health and addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery.
*Training Start Dates: January 2027 / July 2027
Trainee will participate in MOUD in community-based settings along with additional clinical training beyond the didactic component, including professional peer-to-peer support to assist trained APNs and PAs in initiating their provision of MOUD.
Trainee will connect and manage patients’ receiving MOUD in receiving behavioral health counseling and in connecting to social supports to retain patients in care.
Trainee will collaborate with care givers inside and outside of the immediate care team.
Trainee will be able to demonstrate clearly and effective communication with patients and immediate care team.
This is a one-year training program.
Two candidates are hired in January and July each year.
Education: Master's Degree-Nurse Practitioner (Required)
Certified Nurse Practitioner - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - RN_State of Pennsylvania
Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.
KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.
We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.
Candidates must possess a Master's Degree as a Nurse Practitioner and hold current certifications including Certified Nurse Practitioner (AANP) and a Licensed Registered Nurse license in Pennsylvania. This is a trainee program focused on integrated mental health and SUD/OUD services, including MOUD, within an underserved community-based primary care setting.
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