Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA/APP)-Facial Plastic ENT

Bring your APP practice to a highly specialized facial plastics environment where clinical judgment, procedural skill, patient relationships, and surgical collaboration all matter. This is a rare opportunity to help support and grow a high-volume academic Facial Plastic Surgery practice within UVA Health's Department of Otolaryngology.

UVA Health is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider to join a collaborative Facial Plastic ENT team focused on both cosmetic and functional facial plastic surgery care. This role offers the best of both worlds: meaningful autonomy in patient evaluation and treatment planning, paired with close partnership and mentorship from experienced attending surgeons and APP colleagues.

The position offers a Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM schedule with no call, creating an appealing structure for APPs seeking a highly specialized clinical role with professional growth and sustainable balance. New graduates are welcome and will receive substantial onboarding, training, and mentorship. Experienced APPs will have the opportunity to practice with increasing autonomy, manage patient templates, and perform procedures independently.

The Role

In this ambulatory APP role, you will support three attending facial plastic surgeons while steadily developing your own independent patient panel. The practice serves patients with facial aging concerns, aesthetic facial concerns, facial reconstruction needs, scarring, facial paralysis, facial trauma, and pediatric needs including congenital ear deformities.

This is an excellent fit for an APP who enjoys procedural, relationship-driven specialty care and wants exposure to both aesthetic medicine and reconstructive facial plastics. The pace is active, the clinical work is nuanced, and the impact is highly visible to patients who are seeking function, restoration, confidence, and quality of life.

A strong candidate may come from facial plastics, ENT, plastic surgery, aesthetics, dermatology, surgical specialties, or injectable practice. Family Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants are strongly preferred because they can care for patients across the lifespan. Just as important are the traits that make this practice successful: collaboration, independence, clinical curiosity, procedural interest, and a genuine commitment to both cosmetic and reconstructive patient care.

In an average day, you may:

• Independently evaluate and treat patients in an ambulatory facial plastics setting.
• Develop individualized assessment and treatment plans.
• Perform or grow into cosmetic procedures such as neuromodulators, dermal fillers, microneedling, and PRP treatments.
• Collaborate closely with attending physicians to support clinical practice needs.
• Balance independent patient management with physician consultation.
• Build confidence and skill in specialty workflows, facial plastic procedures, and treatment approaches.

Advanced Practice Provider Scope of Practice:

Clinical

• Provides expert evidence-based, top-of-scope care in their clinical practice
• Acts as part of a specialty team, collaborating with other clinicians as appropriate
• Provides health education to patients
• Maintains accurate, timely, and thorough documentation
• Ensures compliance with institutional and regulatory standards

Leadership

• Supports development of best practices and protocols in specialty
• Serves on committees and workgroups to enhance patient care
• Provides education to learners in the clinical space
• Mentors new team members

Administration

• Contributes to clinical quality improvement work
• Participates in professional governance through the APP Council
• Attends team development meetings at local and departmental levels

Professional

• Adheres to ASPIRE values in all professional interactions
• Maintains appropriate licenses, certifications, and specialty training competencies
• Participates in local, state, and national professional organizations

Background checks and pre-employment health screenings will be conducted on all new hires prior to employment. All safety-sensitive positions with direct patient interaction also require a drug screen.

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Why UVA Health

At UVA Health, APPs are integral members of interdisciplinary care teams, contributing across direct clinical care, patient consultation, education, and innovation. In this role, you will practice in an academic medicine environment where specialty expertise, mentorship, collaboration, and patient-centered care are central to the work.

This opportunity is especially compelling because it combines facial plastic surgery, ENT, aesthetic medicine, reconstructive care, and longitudinal patient relationships in one focused ambulatory practice. You will help support practice growth while working alongside surgeons who are invested in developing APP capability and autonomy.

What makes this role stand out:

• Support three attending facial plastic surgeons in a growing academic practice.
• Gain exposure to both cosmetic facial procedures and functional facial reconstruction.
• Develop an independent patient panel while remaining closely connected to physician collaboration.
• Work with patients across the lifespan, including adults and pediatric patients.
• Learn specialized approaches in facial plastics, ENT workflows, injectables, skincare, facial rejuvenation, and procedural care.
• Join a health system recognized for academic medicine, innovation, Magnet-recognized nursing excellence, and a mission to transform health and inspire hope for all Virginians and beyond.

Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

Why People Love Living in Charlottesville

Charlottesville offers a balanced lifestyle that is especially appealing for healthcare professionals who want career depth without giving up quality of life. The area combines university energy, local restaurants, arts and music, wineries, historic neighborhoods, and easy access to the Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah National Park, hiking, cycling, and year-round outdoor recreation. It is a place where clinicians can build a meaningful academic healthcare career while enjoying a connected community, strong cultural amenities, and space to recharge outside of work.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Graduate of an accredited graduate school of nursing or physician assistant program with a master's degree.

Experience: Department and unit specific.

Licensure: License or license eligible as an Advance Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner, Physician Associate, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, and Certified Nurse Midwife) as set forth by the state of Virginia. If Nurse Practitioner, license to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia is required. Must demonstrate and maintain all credentialing and licensing requirements of UVA Health System, the Virginia Board of Medicine or the Virginia Board of Nursing, and appropriate certifying bodies. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required. Current PALS/NRP, as required, specific to position. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) as required, specific to position.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently bending/stooping, reaching (overhead, extensive, and repetitive); Repetitive motion: computer keyboard. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 50 - 100lbs. May be exposed to noise, radiation, radioactive materials, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings

• Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts

• Certification and education support

• Generous Paid Time Off

UVA Health is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals" guide rates UVA Health University Medical Center as "High Performing" in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children's is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA's commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.