Department Of Neurosurgery - Per Diem - Nurse Practitioner (APRN) or Physician Assistant
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Job Description
Location Detail: 85 Jefferson Street Hartford (10068)
Shift Detail: Days, Nights, Weekdays, Weekends, Holidays depending on service line needs
Outstanding opportunity to join a national leader in Neurosurgery. The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare has a new opportunity available for a Per Diem Neurosurgery Physician Assistant/APRN to join our Advanced Practice team at Hartford Hospital located in Hartford, CT.
Practice autonomously, but collaboratively, with a team of attending neurosurgeons and APPs providing advanced specialized care to neurosurgical patients including open spine, MIS spine and deformity, intracranial cases, neurovascular, peripheral nerve, neurotrauma, and neuro-interventional radiological cases.
Enjoy a robust onboarding experience with an established, supportive process with frequent opportunities for training and education modalities at HHC’s Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESI).
This role will assist in providing coverage on the inpatient side of neurosurgery including weekdays (day & night shifts), weekends (day & night shifts), and/or holidays to contribute to maintaining 24/7 service coverage.
Job Details
- Managing neurosurgical brain and spine patients on the floor, stepdown, and ICU settings.
- Intake H&Ps, progress notes, consultations, pre- and post-operative care, and discharges.
- Providing neurosurgical consultations in the hospital and in the emergency department.
- Performing bedside procedures: external ventricular drains, ICP monitors, lumbar drains, shunt taps.
- First assisting the attending neurosurgeon in the operating room in brain and spine surgeries.
- Per diem coverage of weekdays, weeknights, weekend days, weekend nights, and holidays based on neurosurgery service line coverage needs.
About the Ayer Neuroscience Institute
The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare is a rapidly expanding Institute with a focus on comprehensive patient care, academics, and research. The Institute enjoys the resources of a system committed to excellence in patient quality and experience and an impressive staff of world class Neuroscience leaders.
About Hartford HealthCare (HHC)
HHC employs more than 2,500 providers in over 400 practice locations throughout Connecticut with 7 acute care hospitals, one of the largest academic and surgical hospitals in the northeast, thriving community teaching hospitals, and one of the largest, physician-led, multi-specialty medical groups in New England.
We support your development and wellbeing through the respected Hartford HealthCare’s Office of Advanced Practice - an internal organization committed to the growth and development of our Advanced Practitioners, and the groundbreaking Office of Provider Wellness
All of this means MORE OPPORTUNITY to propel your career to new heights within a deeply embedded culture of inclusion, innovation, and focus on the highest quality of care. We are a collegial group of teachers, researchers, innovators, and, most of all, caregivers.
Location
Within an hour from New York City and two hours of Boston, Connecticut offers you and your family an exceptional lifestyle. Enjoy the finest schools in the nation, four beautiful seasons of recreational activities, and options to live at the shore, in leafy suburbs, or in vibrant urban areas.
Qualifications
A minimum of 1 year of experience in a surgical subspeciality is strongly preferred.
BE/BC NCCPA certified and CT licensed Physician Assistant or APRN with First Assist.
This role will assist in providing 24/7 coverage on the inpatient side of neurosurgery including weekdays (day & night shifts), weekends (day & night shifts), and/or holidays on a per diem basis based on neurosurgery service line needs.
Key Responsibilities
The provider will manage neurosurgical patients in inpatient, stepdown, and ICU settings while performing bedside procedures and consultations. Additionally, the role involves first assisting attending neurosurgeons in the operating room for various brain and spine surgeries.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Surgery — Nurse Practitioner Career Context
Of the 50 active Nurse Practitioner listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 62% have no call, 66% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Connecticut is 103.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.6% of Connecticut clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | not listed | Nurse Practitioner median $163k (middle half $153k–$200k)20 comparable listings, Oct 2026 |
| Cost of living | Connecticut index 103.6 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Nurse Practitioner listings in Connecticut | 225 active | 13,978 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 30% remote · 62% no call · 66% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | Connecticut Nurse Practitioner listings: 25% state a sign-on bonus (median $14k) · 13% offer loan repayment225 active listings, Oct 2026 |
| Surgery hiring demand | #5 of 17 specialties | postings stay open a median 43 days · 7% state a sign-on bonusWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, September 2026 · 103 postings, 237 closed |
| New Surgery listings | 820 in the last 30 days | 489 the 30 days before (+68%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
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