Manager, Advanced Practice

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we are changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life‑threatening illnesses. Our growing national system includes the Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix.

Our dedicated employees are driven by a common mission: to deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

$70.00/hr — $118.00/hr

We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Practice Manager to join our team in Duarte, CA. We are searching for candidates with oncology experience, but will consider applicants with other relevant experience. If you have a passion to care for oncology patients, we encourage you to apply for this role.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Manage a workforce of Nurse Practitioners employed in the hematology department. Focus on recruitment, onboarding, and meeting departmental and organizational goals as directed by the Director of Advanced Practice.
• Practice with a defined clinical component with physician support.
• Act as a resource to the NPs in the service line and represent medical oncology/surgical oncology NPs in committees and task forces as assigned.
• Utilize the City of Hope nursing process in clinical practice.
• Assume responsibility for independent, direct medical management of a defined patient population according to standardized procedures and in collaboration with a physician advisor.
• Perform physical examinations applying the medical model and nursing process to patient care problems that require medical intervention and skill. Strive to maintain consistency of quality patient care for admitted patients during stay in the defined area while awaiting placement.
• Develop and follow protocols and standardized procedures for practice for Nurse Practitioners in the department.
• Assist in developing methods and systems for provision of medical care and overall department operations.
• Maintain open lines of communication with the physician and multidisciplinary health team regarding patient information across all service lines for hematology. Work with the Director and NP Manager of Hematology to streamline processes for standardization as appropriate to increase efficiencies.
• Under supervision of a physician advisor, perform initial and interval physical assessment for evaluation of patient progress, applying techniques of observation, inspection, auscultation, palpation and percussion.
• Discern between normal and abnormal findings, consulting with the physician advisor when indicated; evaluate, diagnose and manage certain illnesses and conditions, order appropriate laboratory studies, identify appropriate pharmacologic agents and non‑pharmacologic interventions, and refer or consult with other physicians within City of Hope Medical Center.
• Develop and implement patient education activities; provide education and counseling to patients.
• Develop and participate in performance improvement activities to evaluate the program's effectiveness in meeting patient care and departmental needs.
• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, review of current literature, attendance at in‑service meetings, and workshops.
• Attend and participate in meetings. Work within the scope of leadership practice and as an NP to represent APPs in initiatives within the program and with nursing leadership.

Your qualifications should include:

• Master's Degree
• Three years nursing experience.
• Demonstrated a formal leadership role (leading, planning, and evaluating nursing practices and operations).

Required Certification/Licensure:

• Current NP certification
• Current California RN license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR Card through American Heart Association.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.