Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.   

Are you a dedicated Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant seeking a rewarding career opportunity in perioperative services? We are excited to announce an opportunity to become part of our expanding patient care team.

As an Advanced Practice Provider, you will play a vital role as a first assistant to our gastroenterologist.  Join us as we continue our mission to provide exceptional care to our patients and make a meaningful impact in the fight against cancer. 

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Provides services that are accurate, dependable, courteous, and timely.
• Supports the efforts of all care providers to deliver quality care.
• Assisting Surgeons: Collaborate closely with surgeons to provide support during surgical procedures, including retracting tissues, clamping blood vessels, suturing, and maintaining a clear operative field.
• Preoperative Preparation: Assist in preparing patients for surgery by reviewing medical histories, performing physical assessments, and ensuring all necessary equipment and supplies are available.
• Intraoperative Support: Participate actively in surgical procedures by anticipating the needs of the surgical team, providing instruments and supplies as required, and maintaining sterile technique throughout the operation.
• Postoperative Care: Assist with wound closure, apply dressings, and provide postoperative care instructions to patients and their families.
• Demonstrates competence appropriate to their role and function in the delivery of age specific care.
• Delivers care in a manner consistent with the scope of practice of discipline and the standards established by City of Hope as expressed in the plans for provision of care, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrates understanding of all professional and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with colleagues to provide sound decision-making.
• Maintains current knowledge, skills, and competencies through involvement in professional continuing education activities.
• Fosters involvement in performance improvement activities to promote continuous improvement in care delivery.
• Demonstrates assimilation of core organizational values within own performance.

Your qualifications should include:

·         Master's Degree, or Doctorate Degree as Nurse Practitioner

·         Three years clinical experience

Required Certification/Licensure:

·         Current California RN license

·         California NP License

·         California NP Furnishing License within 6 months of hire

·         DEA within 6 months of hire

·         National NP Board Certification through accrediting body

·         Specialty Certification as defined/required for role

·         Basic Life Support (BLS), CPR card through American Heart Association

·         ACLS and PALS

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.  To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.