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Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Oncology, Solid Tumor

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Swedish

Seattle, WA

Health system employer

Eligibility
NP
Unit
Oncology

Posted Sep 11

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Role

Term
Permanent
Accepts
NP

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About this role

Company: Swedish

Providence Swedish Cancer Institute is seeking a full-time nurse practitioner or physician assistant to join its growing Solid Tumor Oncology team in Seattle, Washington. This role offers a unique opportunity to work alongside nationally recognized oncology specialists caring for patients with gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) malignancies across both the clinic and hospital settings.

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The APC will play an integral role in delivering comprehensive cancer care while collaborating within a multidisciplinary team that includes medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, oncology surgeons, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, and research staff. Responsibilities include evaluation and management of oncology patients, treatment monitoring, symptom management, survivorship care, inpatient consultations, and participation in innovative cancer therapies and clinical research. The successful candidate will also share responsibility for the Transition Rapid Access Clinic, helping ensure timely patient access and seamless transitions of care.

The practice cares for patients receiving a broad range of treatments including chemotherapy, targeted therapies, immunotherapy, cellular therapies, and investigational therapies through clinical trials in a highly collaborative academic-style environment.

**Position Details:**

  • Full-time position with Providence Swedish Cancer Institute
  • Focus on patients with gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) malignancies
  • Care for patients receiving chemotherapy, targeted therapies, immunotherapy, cellular therapies, and clinical trial treatments
  • Practice across both ambulatory and hospital settings
  • Shared responsibility for the Transition Rapid Access Clinic
  • Participate in clinical research, clinical trials, and innovative treatment programs
  • No call responsibilities
  • Collaborative, physician-supported practice environment
  • Opportunity to work with one of the largest and most comprehensive oncology programs in the Pacific Northwest

**Compensation &

Benefits

**

  • Compensation is between $139,910 and $177,393 per year

_The compensation amounts listed may include productivity or quality/service incentives, call pay, extra shift incentives, as applicable to the position. In addition, providers may have CME benefits available to them._

**Qualifications &

Requirements

**

  • Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program
  • Certification as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
  • Washington State licensure or ability to obtain prior to start date
  • Oncology experience preferred, though candidates with strong related clinical backgrounds are encouraged to apply
  • Excellent communication skills and commitment to multidisciplinary, patient-centered care

**Where You’ll Work**

The Swedish Cancer Institute is one of the premier cancer care and clinical research centers in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1932, it provides access to more than 150 Swedish-affiliated oncologists and oncology surgeons throughout the region. With a robust clinical trials program and an environment open to new drug treatments, technology and clinical applications, the Swedish Cancer Institute is a hub of innovation. Support services, including art and music therapy, ensure holistic patient care.

**Where You’ll Live**

Seattle is the Pacific Northwest’s largest urban center, with a metro population of 3.25 million, and is home to world-class arts and entertainment, a robust economy and an outstanding school system. The city hugs Puget Sound and offers magnificent mountain views to the north, east and south. Home to the world’s biggest tech giants, Seattle offers some of the highest minimum wages in the country, along with a notable music and arts scene, outdoor lifestyle and amazing coffee.

**Who You’ll Work For**

Swedish is a comprehensive health network with a long history of excellence. The Seattle-based system operates five hospitals with more than 1,500 beds, and more than 115 primary and specialty care clinics. Part of the Providence family, Swedish is world-renowned for its innovative and ground-breaking diagnoses, treatments and medical research at its five award-winning institutes: cancer, digestive health, heart and vascular, neuroscience and orthopedic. Its mission is to improve the health and well-being of each person it serves.

Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran

Sourced from Swedish’s careers page.

Requirements

  • **
  • Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program
  • Certification as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
  • Washington State licensure or ability to obtain prior to start date
  • Oncology experience preferred, though candidates with strong related clinical backgrounds are encouraged to apply
  • Excellent communication skills and commitment to multidisciplinary, patient-centered care

Benefits highlights

  • CME benefits available

Place

City
Seattle, WA
Median rent
$2,030/mo

rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024

Local household income
$123,860/yr

all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024

Metro price level
11% above the national average

Seattle area index 111.1, where 100 is the national average.

Seattle sits about 11% above the national average for cost of living—but post-shift Puget Sound ferry rides to Bainbridge, Capitol Hill's indie espresso bars, Fremont's Sunday market, and the Olympic Range on every western skyline offset the price tag. The drizzle is real. So are the mountain views from your hospital break room.

Map showing the location of Seattle, WA
Approximate location in Seattle, WA. · © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap· Open the live map

Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.

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