Assistant Vice President Advanced Practice Providers - Full Time
AtlantiCare · Atlantic City
The Assistant Vice President (AVP), Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) serves as the enterprise clinical, operational, and strategic leader for all APPs across AtlantiCare’s ambulatory, acute, and post-acute settings. As a member of the Department of Nursing, the AVP reports directly to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and provides system-wide leadership for APP professional practice, workforce strategy, development, governance, and performance.
The AVP establishes and advances standardized APP professional practice, competency, onboarding, education, development, and care-delivery models that support APPs practicing to the full extent of their education, licensure, and certification as autonomous, collaborative members of the interdisciplinary team.
The AVP partners with the acute and ambulatory CMOs and Medical Staff leadership on clinical governance, credentialing, privileging, clinical standards, quality, patient safety, and physician-APP practice relationships. Operational leaders partner with the AVP on deployment, staffing, scheduling, access, utilization, and care-model execution.
The AVP leads APP governance, workforce planning, leadership development, engagement, retention, succession planning, and continuous improvement, with accountability for alignment with the CPE and Medical Staff clinical governance framework and organizational priorities for clinical excellence, patient outcomes, access, and financial performance.
Reporting Relationship
This position reports directly to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for administrative leadership, workforce strategy, professional development, and operational performance. The Chief Physician Executive (CPE) serves as the executive partner for clinical governance and physician-APP practice, collaborating with the AVP and Medical Staff leadership to ensure alignment with clinical standards, credentialing and privileging requirements, quality, and patient safety.
The CPE provides clinical governance oversight for APP scope of practice, credentialing and privileging, clinical standards, competency, clinical performance, peer review, and physician-APP practice relationships, in accordance with applicable law, Medical Staff Bylaws, and organizational policy. The AVP provides system-wide leadership and accountability for APP governance, workforce strategy, deployment, utilization, professional development, and operational and financial performance, in partnership with the CPE and Medical Staff leadership.
Span of leadership: Provides enterprise leadership for all Advanced Practice Providers (Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants) across AtlantiCare. Leads APP professional practice and maintains a clinical reporting relationship with APP leads within each service line.
Collaborate with: Service Line Leaders and Directors, Medical Staff leadership and committees, Nursing Operations, Human Resources, the Medical Staff Office/Credentialing, Graduate Medical Education, and operational leaders to ensure standardized, high-quality APP practice across the health system.
Work Allocation
- Administrative Responsibilities: 80%
- Clinical Practice Responsibilities: 20%
The incumbent maintains active clinical practice (20%) to ensure continued clinical competency, credibility, and alignment with Advanced Practice Provider workflows while dedicating 80% of effort to enterprise leadership, strategic planning, professional practice, workforce development, quality, and operational responsibilities
Work Environment
Potential for exposure to the hazards of the hospital environment, including exposure to infectious disease, hazardous waste, and potential for injury.
This position requires a moderate amount of standing and walking and the ability to lift light to moderate weight, up to approximately 20 pounds occasionally.
The essential functions for this position are listed on the Assessment and Evaluation Tool.
Benefits offerings may vary based on position and are subject to eligibility requirements.
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AtlantiCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer