Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner - CVTS
Wilkes-Barre, PAFull-timePosted 2 days agoStill listed today
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Geisinger’s Heart Institute seeks a cardiovascular thoracic surgery physician assistant or nurse practitioner for its practice at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. The role supports patients throughout the surgical journey, from evaluation and preparation through postoperative recovery, working with cardiac surgeons and multidisciplinary teams. The position includes outpatient and inpatient care and is scheduled for 40 hours per week.
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Location: Geisinger Wyoming Valley (GWV) Shift: Rotation (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Worker Type: Regular Exemption Status: Yes Job Summary: Geisinger's Heart Institute is seeking a Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join our growing practice at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center located in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Job Duties: Join our collaborative cardiothoracic surgery team and play a key role in guiding patients through every stage of their surgical journey, from initial evaluation to postoperative recovery.
In this role, you will:
- Evaluate and prepare patients for cardiothoracic surgery in partnership with cardiac surgeons.
- Coordinate preoperative testing, surgical scheduling, medical clearances, and patient education.
- Manage outpatient referrals and participate in Heart Team discussions for valve and structural heart patients.
- Round on postoperative cardiac surgery patients and assist with ongoing inpatient management.
- Coordinate discharges, follow-up care, and recovery planning.
- Conduct postoperative visits and manage patient questions, phone calls, and portal messages.
If you enjoy building relationships with patients, working closely with surgeons and multidisciplinary teams, and making a meaningful impact throughout the continuum of cardiac surgical care, we'd love to hear from you.
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 7,878 open Physician Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Pennsylvania median$110–164K/yr80 salary ranges
- Pennsylvania median$42–90/hr47 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 631 open Physician Assistant jobs in Pennsylvania and 7,878 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- UPMC119 open
- Geisinger (this employer)99 open
- Highmark Health66 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 (2,088 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 1,817 of the 7,878 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 6, 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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