Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Hospital Medicine and Transfer Center - Jacksonville, FL

Baptist Health is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our rapidly growing inpatient team in Jacksonville, Florida.

This full-time, hybrid clinical and operational position supports both inpatient admissions at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville and transfer coordination through the Patient Care Logistics Center. You will play an essential role in facilitating discharges, managing overflow admissions, coordinating transfers, and helping patients reach the appropriate level of care efficiently.

The position follows a 9 a.m.–9 p.m. swing shift and requires on-site work.

Position Highlights

• Full-time Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant opportunity
• 9 a.m.–9 p.m. swing shift
• Combination of hospital medicine and patient-logistics responsibilities
• Collaboration with inpatient, nursing, transfer-center, and logistics teams
• Direct impact on patient flow, bed capacity, and continuity of care
• Opportunity to join a respected and expanding health system

What You Will Do

• Facilitate discharges before noon
• Prepare appropriate discharges for the following day
• Support overflow admissions
• Respond to urgent clinical and operational needs
• Assist with real-time transfer decisions
• Help optimize bed assignments and patient placement
• Coordinate care across inpatient and logistics teams
• Promote safe, timely movement throughout the continuum of care

Candidate Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program
• At least one year of Hospital Medicine, Critical Care, or ICU experience
• Current Florida APRN or Physician Assistant license
• National certification through AANP, ANCC, or NCCPA
• Current BLS and ACLS certifications, or ability to obtain
• Valid Florida driver’s license

There’s a Place for You Here

Baptist Health serves Northeast Florida through a comprehensive network of hospitals, physician practices, specialty services, and the region’s only children’s hospital. Our teams share a commitment to delivering coordinated, high-quality care at every stage of the patient journey.

Bring your inpatient knowledge, sound clinical judgment, and collaborative approach to a role that helps shape care delivery throughout the Baptist Health system.

ABOUT BAPTIST HEALTH

Baptist Health, founded in 1955, is North Florida’s most comprehensive health care system and the area’s only non-profit, mission-driven, locally governed health care provider. Baptist Health has over 200 points of care throughout the Northeast Florida region, including our six award-winning hospitals: Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Baptist Medical Center Clay, Baptist Medical Center Nassau and Baptist Medical Center South. The most preferred health care system in the region, Baptist Health also includes 57 primary care offices, as well as home health, behavioral health, pastoral care, rehabilitation services, occupational health and urgent care. 

Baptist Health invests more than $250 million annually in social responsibility initiatives, charity care and the cost of uncompensated care. Priorities include children having access to health care, adults having access to quality care, elderly people living independent, fulfilling lives, access to mental health services, maternal and child health and other social determinants of health. Baptist Health has the area’s only dedicated heart hospital; orthopedic institute; women’s services; neurological institute, including comprehensive neurosurgical services, a comprehensive stroke center and two primary stroke centers; a Bariatric Center of Excellence; a full range of psychology and psychiatry services; urgent care services; and primary and specialty care physicians’ offices throughout Northeast Florida. The Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center is a regional destination for multidisciplinary cancer care, which is clinically integrated with the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the internationally renowned cancer treatment and research institution in Houston.

About Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville 

For more than 20 years, healthcare consumers have named Baptist Health the “most preferred healthcare provider” in the region. As the central hub of the Baptist Health of Northeast Florida health system, the Baptist Jacksonville campus is home to a 24/7 Emergency Center, a comprehensive stroke center, Baptist Heart Hospital including Baptist Heart Rhythm Center, Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baptist Neurological Institute, Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute and the AgeWell Center for Senior Health. We serve families in every stage of life with the highest level of medical and surgical care using the latest technologies. 

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