Nocturnist - Physician - Jefferson Health
Overview
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Schedule
- Night shifts · Night shift coverage with cross-coverage support including ICU rapid responses and Code Blue events (if available)
- Practice
- Hospital medicine across multiple hospital locations · Hospital
Role summary
Jefferson Health is hiring nocturnists to manage overnight inpatient care, admissions, and night rounds with teaching opportunities and ICU coverage support across several hospital sites. The role involves night shifts with a salary range of $240,000 to $330,000 at New Jersey locations.
What the posting highlights
- Open and closed ICU models depending on site
- Care setting: Inpatient care including overnight admissions and night rounds
- Research or clinical-trial participation is noted
- Teaching or an academic practice setting is noted
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Compensation
Employer
Jefferson Health
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Facility & Community
- Practice setting
- Hospital medicine across multiple hospital locations
- Facility type
- Hospital
- EHR
- Not stated in posting
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- Is $240,000–$330,000 base salary only, or expected total compensation including bonus and productivity?
- How many weeks of PTO and CME time are included, and is unused time paid out?
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Work Design
- Schedule
- night shifts
- Call burden
- night shift coverage with cross-coverage support including ICU rapid responses and Code Blue events (if available)
- Shift type
- night
- Inpatient / outpatient
- inpatient care including overnight admissions and night rounds
- Coverage model
- open and closed ICU models depending on site
- Admin burden
- documentation including histories, physicals, daily notes, and plans of care
- Teaching
- Yes
- Research
- Yes
- Supervises APPs
- Yes
Visa & Eligibility
- Remote
- No
Source & Verification
- Source
- Official employer source
- First seen
- 1 mo ago
- Last verified
- yesterday
- Extraction confidence
- 90%
Full description
Job Details Jefferson Health is hiring Board Certified/Board Eligible Internal Medicine or Family Medicine trained Nocturnists to join our expanding Hospital Medicine teams across the enterprise, including: Center City Philadelphia Northeast Philadelphia (Torresdale) Abington, Montgomery County Lansdale, Montgomery County Southern New Jersey locations Job Description Overnight Admissions & Inpatient Care: Evaluate and admit patients from the ED, conduct night rounds, and manage care for previously admitted patients. Cross-Coverage Support: Provide backup to APPs, assist with ICU needs including rapid responses and Code Blue events (if available) Open and closed ICU models depending on site (Not all sites require procedures) Clinical Supervision (Optional Academic Track): Supervise residents and support triage and admissions for teaching teams—three nocturnists typically cover each night. Academic opportunities available at select locations Team Collaboration: Coordinate effectively with interdisciplinary teams (nursing, specialists, social work) and ensure comprehensive transitions at shift change. Documentation & Compliance: Maintain thorough charting of histories, physicals, daily notes, and plans of care, ensuring compliance and accurate comorbidity coding. Part-time and Per Diem Nocturnist Opportunities: We offer part-time and per diem Nocturnist opportunities dependent on location and needs. NJ Locations Salary Range: $240,000 - $330,000 Work Shift Workday Night (United States of America) Worker Sub Type Regular Employee Entity Primary Location Address 132 S 10th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years. Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. Benefits Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps ), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance. For more benefits information, please click here