Field Advanced Practice Provider

Job Overview

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Position Title: Field Advanced Practice Provider

Location: This field-based role enables associates to primarily operate in the field, travelling to client sites or designated locations as required, with occasional office attendance for meetings or training. This approach ensures flexibility, responsiveness to client needs, and direct, hands‑on engagement. Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

This position will support the area of Staunton and surrounding territory.

Role

Summary:

The Field Advanced Practice Provider is responsible for collaborating with company physicians, the patient’s other physicians and providers, and their family members to develop complex plans of care in accordance with the patient’s health status and overall goals and values. Provides clinical and non‑clinical support to patients in palliative care within a designated territory.

• Provides services in home settings to care for patients.
• Develops and implements clinical plans of care for adult patients facing chronic and complex conditions.
• Gathers history, physical exam and diagnostics as needed, then develops and implements treatment plans given the patient’s goals of care and current conditions.
• Meets the patient’s and family’s physical and psychosocial needs with support and input from the company’s inter‑disciplinary team.
• Educates patients and families about medication usage, side effects, illness progression, diet and nutrition, medical adherence and crisis anticipation and prevention.
• Maintains contact with other clinical team members, patients’ other physicians and medical providers to coordinate optimal care and resources for the patient and his or her family in a timely basis and consistent with state regulations and company health standards and policy.
• Maintains patient medical records and documentation consistent with state regulations and company standards and policy.
• Participates in continuing education as required by state.
• Prescribes medication as permitted by state prescribing authority.

• MS in Nursing.
• Current unrestricted Nurse Practitioner (NP) license or Physician Assistant (PA) license in applicable state(s). Possession of DEA registration or eligibility required.
• CPR certification required.

• 2 years of experience in home‑based services, complex care cases, and hospice and/or palliative care preferred.
• Bedside hospital, oncology, emergency room (ER) or intensive care unit (ICU) experience highly preferred.
• Experience working with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) preferred.
• Bilingual in English/Spanish preferred. For Carelon Health business unit, satisfactory completion of a Tuberculosis test is a requirement for this position. Travel may be required.

Job Level: Non‑Management Exempt

Job Family: MED >
Licensed/Certified – Other

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact elevancehealthj for assistance. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.