Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner - Neurosurgery
Scranton, PAFull-timePosted 3 days agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Geisinger seeks a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to join its neurosurgery practice at Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The role includes operating-room first assist on a weekly rotation, outpatient clinic work, inpatient and consult coverage, and call. The team covers spine, cranial, and trauma neurosurgery.
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Location: Geisinger Multi-Specialty Clinic Olive Street Shift: Rotation (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Worker Type: Regular Exemption Status: Yes Job Summary: Geisinger's Neuroscience Institute is seeking a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to join our thriving neurosurgery practice at Geisinger Community Medical Center located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Job Duties: The ideal candidate will enjoy a practice of 1st assist in the OR on a weekly rotation, along with outpatient clinic and inpatient/consult coverage. Call is included in this position.
The neurosurgery NP or PA will join a dedicated team of providers at Geisinger Community Medical Center covering all areas of neurosurgery including spine, cranial, and trauma.
The successful Physician Assistant must be a graduate of an ARC-approved physician assistant program, eligible or certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Physician Assistants and eligible or certified by the State Board of Medicine.
The successful Nurse Practitioner candidate will have a certificate of completion from an approved program for Nurse Practitioners and must be eligible for or certified by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing. An acute care certification is required for this position. Must be certified to work with all patient population age groups.
At Geisinger, we’ve been shaping the future of health for more than a century. Today, we continue with the rapid growth of our Department of Neurosurgery, which has a range of resources to provide unique clinical and academic opportunities unlike any other organization.
As part of our world-class Geisinger Neuroscience Institute, we have innovative high-value clinical protocols for acute inpatient and chronic outpatient disease management, a 20-year clinical data warehouse (Geisinger had one of the very first Epic systems), and a groundbreaking population genomics program. Our team consists of neurosurgeons providing neurosurgical services in four hospitals, including multiple hybrid operating rooms supporting comprehensive stroke programming.
Position Details:
Education: Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required) Experience:
Certification(s) and License(s): Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) Skills:
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.
- KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
- EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
- LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
- INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
- SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
How this job compares
Set against the 7,833 open Physician Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Pennsylvania median$110–164K/yr75 salary ranges
- Pennsylvania median$42–90/hr48 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 632 open Physician Assistant jobs in Pennsylvania and 7,833 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- UPMC123 open
- Geisinger (this employer)99 open
- Highmark Health64 open
- Experience
- Physician Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (2,085 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 1,817 of the 7,833 open Physician Assistant jobs (23%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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