Full-Time General Surgery | Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant | Henry Ford Providence Novi Hospital
🔍 Novi, Michigan
Location: HF Providence Novi Hospital | 47601 Grand River Ave Novi, MI 48374
Status: Full-Time | Day Shift
Schedule: Three, 13.5 hour shifts per week (Monday – Friday) with additional night/weekend on-call for OR surgical assisting.
Setting: 100% Inpatient & ED Consults | Mostly Adult patients with occasional pediatric age of 14 and up.
Call/Weekends:
Weekend: on-call only. Approx. 1 weekend day per month, scheduled in advance.
Call: on-call from home approx. 4-5 times per month. Report in only for OR surgical assisting. Scheduled in advance, report time is 1-hour.
Position Overview:
Henry Ford Health System is seeking a full-time Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join our General Surgery team. This opportunity offers exposure to a fast-paced, highly skilled surgical service supporting specialties including general, HPB, colorectal, vascular, thoracic, breast, and select plastic surgery cases.
Responsibilities include daily rounding on pre- and post-operative patients, progress notes, order entry, bedside procedures, ED and inpatient consults, surgical first assisting as needed, and collaboration with residents and attending surgeons. The role also includes rotating at-home call coverage for emergent overnight, weekend, and holiday OR cases (1-hour response time).
Frequent opportunities exist to perform bedside procedures including I&Ds, wound debridement, chest tube placement, central line placement, Foley catheter placement, and wound VAC management.
Why Henry Ford Health
· Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
· Supportive, collaborative systemwide team
· Meaningful impact on employee health and safety
Employment contingent upon credentialing and completion of Employee Health screening per HFHS policy.
Qualifications:
- PA graduate from an accredited program
- NP graduate from an accredited program AND prior surgical assist experience.
- Current Michigan licensure
- National certification (ANCC, AANP, or NCCPA)
- BLS required; ACLS required (or obtained after hire)
- Prior surgical 1st assist experience, required.
- 2 years of prior surgical 1st assist experience, experience with bedside procedures, wound debridement, chest tube placement, central line placement, foley catheter placement wound vac placement, preferred.
- 2 years prior acute care experience, preferred.
Education & Training
· Nurse Practitioner (NP): Completion of a Nurse Practitioner program accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC)
· Physician Assistant (PA): Completion of a Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA)
Licensure
· Current licensure as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in the State of Michigan, or in the process of applying (proof of application required)
Certification
· NP: National certification by a certification body recognized by the State of Michigan (e.g., ANCC, AANP)
· PA: Certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Required Certifications
- Basic Life Support (BLS) – required
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) – required (may be obtained after hire)
DEA / Controlled Substance Licensure
- PA: DEA and Michigan Controlled Substance License (CSL) required through credentialing
- NP: DEA registration required through credentialing; NPs do not hold a Michigan CSL and will use their Michigan license number during the application process
Additional Details
This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.
Overview
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.
Benefits
The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is
committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to
race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,
weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,
or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.