Family Nurse Practitioner for Primary Care

Harbor Health Services Inc.; Hyannis (MA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

CME Stipend

License Reimbursement

PTO 25 days + 11 holidays

Wellness Benefits

FTCA malpractice coverage

Job summary

Harbor Health Services Inc. seeks a mission-driven Family Nurse Practitioner to join our Primary Care Department at the Harbor Community Health Center in Hyannis, MA. This full-time role includes evening shifts and Saturday rotation to meet clinic needs.

We offer loan repayment opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package including health/dental/vision, CME stipend, license reimbursement, generous PTO, holidays, wellness programs, and FTCA malpractice coverage.

Qualifications

• Completed accredited Nurse Practitioner program in Family Practice.
• Current MA NP License, Family Practitioner, Board Certified, DEA, MCSR and BLS.
• Computer literate (MS Office) and EMR experience (EPIC/OCHIN highly desired).
• 2+ years NP experience required; bilingual preferred (English/Portuguese/Spanish).
• Experience with a community health center setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a primary care provider for a panel of patients.
• Organizes and manages care of primary care patients including visits, communication, referrals, and patient education.
• Provides routine health maintenance and well visits with age-appropriate screenings.
• Manages chronic illnesses and acute illnesses with appropriate follow-up.
• Participates in on-call system and evening/weekend clinic schedule.
• Documents care in EMR with accurate progress notes and labs.

Skills

Bilingual (English/Portuguese/Spanish)

MS Office

EMR literacy (EPIC/OCHIN)

Education

MA NP License, Family Practitioner, Board Certified, DEA, MCSR, BLS

Tools

EPIC/OCHIN EMR

Job description

The minimum starting salary for this position is $124,800 annually.

Harbor Health Services is an innovative, growing, mission-based organization that lives, serves and collaborates with our community members to achieve our mission to help individuals reach their full potential through access to local, affordable services that promote health. Harbor provides medical, behavioral health, dental, and support services to more than 34,000 patients in Boston, the South Shore, and Cape Cod.

Harbor Health is currently seeking a mission-driven Family Nurse Practitioner to join our Primary Care Department at the Harbor Community Health Center in Hyannis, MA.

LOAN REPAYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE!! Harbor Health Services qualifies for the National Health Service Corps, State Loan Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness Programs!

Our comprehensive Provider Benefits package includes:

• Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance.
• Continuing Medical Education Stipend of up to $2500 and 5 days of leave per year
• Reimbursement for initial and renewal cost of licenses
• Generous PTO (25 days to start) with additional 11 Paid Holidays annually
• Wellness Benefits – Employee Assistance Program, fitness reimbursement, Noom membership
• Provider Malpractice is covered by FTCA

Role:
The Nurse Practitioner provides care appropriate to the patient population served, including routine health maintenance, management of chronic conditions, and management of acute illness for patients. Position is full time and hours may include evening shifts and Saturday rotation based on clinic needs.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a primary care provider for a panel of patients.
• Organizes and manages the care of primary care patients, including outpatient visits, communication with patients by mail, email or phone, inpatient care, referral for specialty care, provision of or referral for patient education for self-management, assesses health risks, promotes and provides disease prevention, and practices evidenced based medicine.
• Provides routine health maintenance by performing interval well visits. This may include a complete history and physical, developmental assessment, risk assessment, cancer screening, and health promotion education, Follows up on any problems detected, Makes appropriate referrals for additional services required, including nutrition, social services, behavioral health, specialty care.
• Provides timely and expert care to patients with acute illness.
• Manages common chronic illnesses, including acute complications and routine follow-up, provides or arranges for appropriate patient education regarding self-management of chronic illnesses.
• Participates in an on-call system with other providers in the Center and with other providers at affiliated health centers that provides 24-hour access to a provider for our patients.
• Participates in evening/Saturday/holiday clinic schedule.
• Participates in provider staff meetings, departmental and general staff meetings, trainings, care team meetings and quality improvement/practice transformation sessions.
• Participates in managed care plans and assists the Center by reinforcing patient understanding of such plans; makes appropriate, cost efficient referrals and admission decisions and refers only to participating specialists; provides guidance and monitoring of systems necessary for the function of managed care programs.
• Updates Electronic Medical Record (EMR) appropriately using proper coding and documents care accordingly; accurately and timely documents care in the medical record with progress notes, lab follow-ups, communications with patients; maintains a current problem list, medication flow sheet, immunization record and other appropriate information.

• Completed accredited Nurse Practitioner program in Family Practice
• Current MA NP License, Family Practitioner, Board Certified, Current DEA, MCSR and Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS) required
• Computer Literate (MS Office, Windows), experienced with EMR (EPIC/OCHIN highly desired)
• 2 or more years of NP experience required and bilingual preferred (English/Portuguese/Spanish).
• Experience with a community health center population and practice setting preferred

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement.

When determining actual base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g. location, years of relevant experience, education, training, and other factors as permissible by law). As such, most offers will not be at the top of the salary range.