Instructor or Assistant Professor​/Advanced Practice Provider

Instructor or Assistant Professor / Advanced Practice Provider

US-WA-Vancouver

Requisition :

Position Category: Advanced Practice Provider

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Posting Department: Pediatrics

Posting Salary Range: APU Contract Salary Table. Commensurate with experience.

Posting FTE: 1.00

HR Mission: School of Medicine

Drug Testable: Yes

Department Overview

The Department of Pediatric / Division of Pediatric Neonatology is recruiting for a full-time APP for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Peace Health Southwest.

Function/Duties of Position

The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service.

The Clinical Faculty APP delivers care aligned with a defined scope of practice in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Peace Health Southwest, with work expectations operationalized through departmental workflows, productivity standards, and performance expectations consistent with the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and institutional policies.

This role is structured to meet contract-defined work expectations of 166.4 annual shifts per year (1.0 FTE), aligned with the staffing model for Peace Health Southwest NICU, including 12.5-hour shift-based scheduling, continuous 24/7 coverage, and clinical coverage expectations that include days, nights, weekends, and holidays consistent with unit scheduling guidelines.

The Clinical Faculty APP will participate in departmental scheduling processes, including weekends and holidays with scheduling practices aligned to contract provisions, equitable distribution of coverage, and maintenance of safe, consistent clinical operations.

The duties of this position include:

• Patient Population:
  • Neonates and infants requiring Level III neonatal intensive care services, including premature infants, critically ill newborns, and medically complex patients.
  • Patients may include those requiring stabilization, intensive monitoring, procedural support, and coordination of multidisciplinary care.
• Practice area and practice type:
  • Inpatient practice within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
  • Shared practice model in collaboration with attending neonatologists and interdisciplinary care teams, with independent practice responsibilities consistent with APP scope, licensure, training, and credentialing.
  • APPs practice with a high degree of clinical autonomy within their scope, licensure, and credentialed privileges, in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team.
• Clinical coverage requirement:
  • Participation in a shift-based 24/7 staffing model providing continuous APP coverage at Peace Health Southwest NICU.
  • Scheduled coverage includes 12.5-hour day and night shifts, weekends, holidays, and assignment across the full scheduling cohort.
  • Position expectations include participation in night and weekend coverage that may exceed 40% of total shifts, consistent with the defined staffing model for this contracted community-based practice. Assignment of greater than 40% night/weekend coverage is contingent upon the continued use of back-to-back shifts.
  • Participation in voluntary back-to-back day-to-night shifts, when scheduled, is permitted consistently with departmental staffing guidelines.
  • Support for patients requiring neonatal intensive care including but not limited to admissions, daily ongoing care, discharges (planned and unplanned as clinically appropriate), consultations, delivery attendance, neonatal resuscitation, transport coordination, triage, and team-based patient care responsibilities, as assigned
• Department specific activities:
  • Practice includes provision of neonatal care in a community-based contracted practice…