APP (NP/PA) Lead Advanced Heart Failure

Inova Fairfax Hospital is looking for a dedicated Advanced Practice Provider Lead (NP/PA) for Advanced Heart Failure to join the team. This role will be a full-time role.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

The APP Lead is a role that exists only for Inova Service Lines. The APP Lead is charged with optimizing daily function of and care delivery provided by Apps. The role serves as the direct supervisor for front-line APP providers in a Service Line.

Featured Benefits:
* Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision
coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
* Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on
your first day.
* Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in
education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
* Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their
spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy
sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
* Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work
schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.

Job Responsibilities

• monitors day-to-day APP performance and manages and coaches APPs on clinical and operational work functions, in partnership with site leaders and collaborating physicians

• Works with the APP Manager, site leaders and collaborating physicians:

• Recruiting and on-boarding APPs into the Service Line

• Implement practice agreements and DOPs

• Set individual APP professional advancement/training plans, productivity ramp-ups and work schedules

• Implement billing standards for APPs

• Develop APP communications

• Develop SL education curriculum for APPs

• Provides input to the APP Manager on strategies to optimize the use of APPs in the Service Line, including role of APPs as members of the care team, APP competencies and professional advancement ladder, onboarding/training strategy, productivity targets, staffing levels, leadership model, and communications strategy

• Assists the APP Manager in other duties as assigned

Additional Responsibilities

• Key liaison between APPs, nursing, physicians and other providers

• Promotes psychological safety among all APPs

• Focuses on improving the quality of care delivered by APPs

• Upholds and promotes Inova's mission, vision, values, and care imperatives

• Straight line reporting to Service Line APP Manager (where in place) or Executive APP Director

• Dotted line reporting to relevant Service Line physician leader (e.g., Section/Division Chiefs, Unit/Practice/Program Directors)

• The APP Lead is an experienced APP who is charged with overseeing the daily functions of and care delivery provided by APPs in a Service Line

• The APP Lead serves as the direct supervisor for front-line APP providers in a Service Line

Requirements

• Graduate of accredited NP or PA program

• Current board certification and license to practice in Virginia

• Specialty trained, where appropriate

• 3 to 5 years experience as an APP

• BLS with American Heart Association

We are Inova, Northern Virginia's leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 25,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better - to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.