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Advanced Practice Provider (NP / PA) - Hospital Medicine Department at MUSC Health – Chester Medical Center

Nurse PractitionerFull-Time Physician-Supervised State

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Job Description

Job Description Summary

  • The Hospital Medicine Department at MUSC Health – Chester Medical Center, is seeking skilled Acute Care trained Advanced Practice Providers interested in providing adult in-patient care at Chester Medical Center.
  • Entity
  • MUSC Community Physicians (MCP)
  • Worker Type
  • Employee
  • Worker Sub-Type
  • Regular
  • Cost Center
  • CC004252 MCP - Chester Hospitalists
  • Pay Rate Type
  • Hourly, Salary
  • Pay Grade
  • Health-33
  • Scheduled Weekly Hours
  • 40

Work Shift

Job Description

The Hospital Medicine Department at MUSC Health – Chester Medical Center, is seeking skilled Acute Care trained Advanced Practice Providers interested in providing adult in-patient care at Chester Medical Center.

MUSC Health - Chester Medical Center is an intimate, 82-bed facility whose caregivers share a sense of pride working in close-knit teams with supportive department directors to serve the residents of Chester County. We offer emergency care, family medicine, gastroenterology, heart & vascular, imaging, internal medicine, orthopedics, pediatric services, rehabilitation, women’s health and wound care services.

Required Qualifications

  • Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program
  • Board certified (AANP, ANCC, NCCPA)
  • Active or eligible South Carolina license
  • Experience in hospital medicine or emergency medicine preferred
  • Strong clinical decision-making and adaptability

Position Highlights

  • 7on/7off schedule
  • Perform comprehensive history, physical exams, and diagnostic interpretation
  • Works with Hospitalists, mainly on admissions and cross coverage
  • Potential to precept students at MUSC enrolled as an advanced practice provider student
  • Coordinate discharges, follow-up care, and patient education
  • Engage in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives

Benefits & Resources for Providers

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Employer-funded retirement plans
  • Paid occurrence malpractice coverage
  • Paid parental leave
  • Epic EHR with provider-centered optimization and robust user support
  • AI-enabled documentation and workflow tools integrated into Epic to reduce administrative burden and support clinical decision-making at the point of care
  • Team-based care models that support sustainable workloads, shared responsibility, and provider well-being

Life in Chester, SC boasts plenty of quaint, small town charm while still offering plenty of things to do. Enjoy arts, entertainment, and seasonal festivals in the city’s revitalized downtown district, or spend an afternoon visiting one of the city’s historical museums. Get lost in nature at Chester State Park, a 160-acre preserve offering a 1.3-mile hiking trail and a lake for boating and fishing.

In Chester, you’re only a 55 minute drive away from Columbia, SC, 45 minutes from Spartanburg, SC, and 45 minutes from Charlotte, NC. We think you’ll agree that Chester is a great place to live.

Charlotte, NC, one of the twenty-five largest cities in the United States, and the largest city in North Carolina, is home to nearly 800,000 citizens. In Charlotte, you will find the Carolina Panthers, Charlotte Hornets, numerous entertainment venues, and the National Whitewater Center.

Excellent public-school systems, a buzzing culinary scene, an international airport (CLT), and short driving distances to beach getaways and mountain escapes make Charlotte a great option for MUSC Lancaster Medical Center physicians.

Additional Job Description

Graduation from an approved Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) or its predecessor agencies.

Must be licensed in the state of South Carolina, and certified as a Physician Assistant by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).

Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification is required

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

The Medical University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

MUSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by state laws and/or federal regulations.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need.

Medical University of South Carolina participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: uscis.gov

Key Responsibilities

The Advanced Practice Provider will perform comprehensive history and physical exams, interpret diagnostics, and coordinate patient care including admissions and discharges. They will work within a hospitalist team to provide adult in-patient care and engage in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

Requirements

Candidates must be graduates of an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program and hold active South Carolina licensure. Board certification (AANP, ANCC, or NCCPA) and current BLS certification are required.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Discharge coordination

Hospital Medicine — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Nurse Practitioner listings this role was benchmarked against, 26% are remote, 58% have no call, 58% require no weekends.

Nurse Practitioner pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Nurse Practitioner by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedNurse Practitioner median $138k (middle half $128k–$159k)294 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingSouth Carolina index 93.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Nurse Practitioner listings in South Carolina311 active14,235 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 26% remote · 58% no call · 58% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Nurse Practitioner pay trend+1.1% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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Relocation assistance
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Work-life snapshot

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Better work-life than 50% of Hospital Medicine (NP) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 292 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About MUSC

Hospitals and Health Care
Charleston, South Carolina
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Employer-Funded Retirement Plans
Paid Occurrence Malpractice Coverage
Paid Parental Leave
Epic EHR
AI-Enabled Documentation Tools
Team-Based Care

Living in Chester

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$192k
Median resident rent
$902/mo
Residents’ average commute
28 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
97.3
State income tax
Up to 6.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.