Wound Care - Nurse Practitioner - Syracuse, NY

St. Joseph’s Health is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner (NP) to join our Wound Care team in Syracuse, NY. This is an inpatient opportunity based at St. Joseph’s Hospital working within a collaborative and dynamic team. This is an excellent opportunity for a role model of professional nursing passionate about developing, maintaining, and improving competence in the wound, ostomy, and continence specialty.

Position Details:

• Provides expert consultative services for Providers, Nurses, and other healthcare professionals regarding wound, ostomy, and continence management for individual patients.
• Recommends plan of care to promote healing, contain drainage, and promote skin integrity.
• Specializes in the care, clinical management, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with surgically created stomas.
• Consults with supply chain, pharmacy, and other disciplines related to the delivery of effective wound/ostomy/ continence care.
• Establishes a plan of care for referred patients through assessment, examination, pre- and post-operative teaching, and counseling.                     
• Determines and orders appropriate treatment based on established KPCO and WOCN Society's standards including topical products, compression therapy, sharp debridement, labs, and radiographic studies.
• Performs procedures as per scope of practice including vascular assessments using Doppler and all types of debridement including sharp wound debridement.
• Provides informal and formal education on wound and ostomy management to nursing staff and other healthcare professional, and participates as a member of the CWOC Team (teams meetings, case conferences, etc.)
• Actively participates in projects related to the care this patient population, promoting the use of evidence-based and cost-effective treatment protocols.
• Contributes to quality management activities including event reporting, focused studies, process and outcome measurement, and unit-based quality initiatives.

Opportunity Highlights:

• Full-time, Monday–Friday schedule with no holidays, weekends, or call
• Predictable daytime hours: 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM
• Collaborative, team-based environment with Physicians, Nurses, pharmacy, supply chain, and interdisciplinary teams
• Opportunity to participate in quality management activities, leadership committees, and specialty-related projects

Qualifications

• Nurse Practitioner certification; Current New York State and DEA license
• CWOCN, CWON, or COCN board certification or board eligibility required
• 1-2 years of ostomy experience and/or recent wound care experience required
• 1-2 years of experience in a hospital, homecare, long-term care, or ambulatory care setting preferred
• Strong clinical, communication, and patient education skills
• Commitment to delivering compassionate, high-quality patient care

Compensation:

• Salary Range: $118,000–$140,000 per year, with additional productivity bonus compensation incentives
• Salary reflects the starting range of total compensation and does not include productivity bonuses, quality incentives, or other forms of cash compensation. Final compensation may vary based on experience, training, and market factors in accordance with State law.
• Starting Bonus: $5,000
• Relocation: Eligible for relocation assistance

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance
• Paid malpractice, including tail coverage
• CME time & $2,500 expense allowance
• Paid time away from the practice
• 403b Retirement savings program, with generous employer match
• Loan Repayment: Our institution qualifies as an eligible employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program

St. Joseph’s Health is a non-profit regional health care system based in Syracuse, NY, providing services to patients throughout Central New York and northern Pennsylvania. From primary care to cardiology to surgical services, St. Joseph’s, in collaboration with our community partners, is advancing the health of the communities we serve through an expanding range of services to ensure our patients achieve optimum health. Ranked by Health Grades among the top 50 cardiac surgery programs in the country, U.S. News “Best Regional Hospital” and a 15-time winner of the National Research Corporation Consumer Choice award, St. Joseph’s is widely recognized for quality, value and delivering the highest patient satisfaction.

St. Joseph's Health is part of Trinity Health one of the largest Catholic health care organizations in the United States based in Livonia, Michigan.

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 133,000 colleagues and more than 38,900 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 25 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 92 hospitals, 101 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country as well as many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2025, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $2.9 billion in its communities in the form of charity care, community benefit and other programs and services. 

Our mission: We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We support this mission by living our core values of Reverence, Commitment to Those Experiencing Poverty, Safety, Justice, Stewardship, and Integrity. Committed to recruiting talented physicians, we are looking for physicians who share our values and want to help us fulfill the health care needs of the communities we serve.

At Trinity Health, we value the physician relationship and focus on partnering with our physicians. Whether you are a practicing physician looking to relocate or a medical resident, we offer opportunities with the flexibility to fit your individual needs. If you would like to be part of Trinity Health, we encourage you to explore more at www.trinity-health.org.

Syracuse, New York is located in the center of New York State. Education, convenience, and housing are the major benefits of life in Syracuse. Several top rated public educational schools in places like Fayetteville Manlius and Jamesville Dewitt are under 20 minutes away. When you would like to get away for the weekend, an easy drive four hours or so will have you in New York City or Toronto, Canada. Syracuse is also a short trip to the Finger Lake Wineries. What sets the Syracuse real estate market apart from most other major cities in New York State is its level of affordability.

St Joseph’s Health is less than 10 minutes away from the Syracuse Hancock International Airport. Syracuse's top employers are primarily in higher education, research, health care, and services; some high-tech manufacturing remains. University Hill is Syracuse's fastest growing neighborhood, fueled by expansions by Syracuse University and Upstate Medical University (a division of the State University of New York), as well as dozens of small medical office complexes.

The City of Syracuse maintains over 170 parks, fields, and recreation areas, totaling over 1,000 acres (4.0 km2).[61] Burnet Park includes the first public golf course in the United States (1901) and Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Other major parks include Thornden Park, Schiller Park, Sunnycrest Park, Onondaga Park and Kirk Park. There are 12 public pools, two public ice rinks, and two public nine-hole golf courses in the city.

Right outside the city proper, along the east side and north end of Onondaga Lake, is Onondaga Lake Park. The adjacent Onondaga Lake Parkway is closed to vehicular traffic several hours on Sundays during the summer months, so it can be used for walking, running, biking, and rollerblading. During the holiday season, the park hosts Lights on the Lake, a two-mile (3.2 km) drive-through light show.