Nocturnist - Physician - Full-Time and Per Diem

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

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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

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Work Shift

Workday Night (United States of America)

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Worker Sub Type

Regular

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Employee Entity

Primary Location Address

132 S 10th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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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.

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About Lehigh Valley Health Network, Part of Jefferson Health

Lehigh Valley Health Network and Jefferson Health combined into one health system in 2024. The combination creates a leading integrated academic health care delivery system, alongside a national doctoral research university and an expanded not-for-profit health plan. The combined health system is among the top 15 not-for-profit health systems in the U.S. with 65,000 colleagues, 32 hospitals and more than 700 sites of care in the Lehigh Valley, Delaware Valley, northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.LVHN is comprised of 15 hospital campuses plus numerous health centers, physician practices, rehabilitation locations, ExpressCARE sites and other outpatient care locations in 10 eastern Pennsylvania counties.Our health care professionals provide exceptional care every day.At LVHN, we continually go the extra mile to further our mission to improve lives. Each of our 65,000 colleagues contributes to this mission and helps make all communities we serve healthier – and better – places to live