Location: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Job Category: Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Practice
Schedule: Days
Work Type: Full time
Department: Central Region Skilled Nursing Division
Date Posted: 12/03/2025
Job ID: R-88940
Job Summary
The Geisinger Skilled Nursing Program is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to 'float' to various skilled nursing facilities in northeast Pennsylvania.Job Duties
This position is as a Geisinger provider in a non-Geisinger facility and requires an experienced advanced practitioner (AP), prior experience working in a skilled nursing facility, family medicine, internal medicine or ICU. The AP provides direct (hands-on) care in skilled nursing facilities with a goal to improve quality and prevent unnecessary re-admissions to the acute care setting.
This position has a $10,400 float differential and will travel to these locations, but are not limited to:
Mountain Top Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, Mountain Top
Birchwood Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Nanticoke
Lakewood Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, Nanticoke
The Meadows, Dallas
Embassy of Wyoming Valley, Wilkes Barre,
Embassy of Scranton, Scranton
Oak Ridge Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Scranton
Geisinger has much to offer:
- $10,400 float differential
- $15k recruitment incentive
- Attractive schedule - Monday - Friday 8 am ā 4:30 pmĀ
- Rotating call schedule
- No weekend hours
- Continuing Medical Education ā 10 days and $3,000 annually
- Six paid holidays
- Paid Time Off - 23 days
Responsibilities:
- Review reports
- Communicate with SNF staff for patient needs
- Treat patients for acute needs, admissions, discharges, etc.
- Manage extremely complex patients, see every day or at least once a week
- Approximately 12 patients a day
- Length of time per patient and number of patients is per need
