Lead Nurse Practitioner

Lowell Community Health Center, Inc.; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowell Community Health Center, Inc. is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to serve as Lead Provider for our Walk-In Center. You will supervise clinical staff, mentor new and new-grad providers, and partner with the nurse manager to shape patient care pathways.

The role emphasizes teaching, collaboration, and delivering high-quality care in a fast-paced setting, including initiation of evidence-based pharmacotherapies and ensuring thorough documentation and compliance.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Nursing and NP certification.
• 2–5 years of clinical practice, with addiction medicine/urgent care/walk-in experience.
• Active state NP license, board certification, DEA license.
• BLS certification current.
• Experience in emergency/ambulatory care settings preferred.
• Strong leadership and mentorship abilities.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
• Patient-centered care philosophy and compassionate approach.
• Proficient with clinical management systems (EPIC) and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient-centered care with comprehensive health assessments and history reviews.
• Interview patients, perform exams, and update medical histories.
• Order/interpret diagnostic tests and address abnormal findings.
• Administer/authorize injections, immunizations, and wound care.
• Lead and mentor daily walk-in operations, with multidisciplinary huddles.
• Develop clinical pathways and protocols in collaboration with staff.
• Educate and counsel patients on therapies, family planning, and wellness.
• Maintain accurate medical records ensuring compliance and privacy.
• Collaborate with Lowell CHC team to coordinate care and transfers.
• Act as preceptor and mentor for new staff and trainees.

Skills

Nurse Practitioner

Leadership & Mentoring

Addiction Medicine

Urgent Care Experience

EPIC EMR

Team Collaboration

Communication Skills

Patient-Centered Care

BLS Certified

MS Office

Education

Master's degree in Nursing (NP)

Certified Nurse Practitioner

Family Medicine focus preferred

Tools

EPIC EMR

Microsoft Office

Job description

Brief Description

Lead Clinician-Patient Walk-In Center

The Opportunity

We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Nurse Practitioner (NP) to join our team as a Lead Provider, responsible for providing exceptional care and making a real impact on the lives of our patients within our walk-in center. The Lead Provider collaborating with the nurse manager will act as clinical leader for clinical staff, mentoring and supporting new and new-grad providers as well as allied healthcare professionals.

This role is perfect for a NP who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys teaching, precepting and mentorship, and is passionate about delivering high-quality care.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide Patient-Centered Care: Conduct health assessments, physical exams, and review medical histories to address short- and long-term patient needs while staying committed to high-quality, efficient patient care.
• Assess patient health: Interview patients, perform physical examinations, obtain, update, and study medical histories.
• Determine abnormal conditions: Administer or order diagnostic tests (e.g., x-rays, electrocardiograms, laboratory studies) and interpret test results.
• Perform therapeutic procedures: Administer injections and immunizations, suture, manage wounds and infections.
• Initiate and manage buprenorphine or other evidence-based pharmacotherapies for Opioid and alcohol use disorders
• Supervise daily walk-in operations, lead multidisciplinary huddles, and develop clinical pathways and protocols
• Educate and counsel: Empower patients with knowledge about their health, describe therapeutic regimens, give information on normal growth and development, discuss family planning, and wellness through counseling and guidance.
• Documentation & Compliance: Prepare clear, complete, accurate, and legible medical records for each patient. .
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment in compliance with company and state procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Follow legal and professional requirements including studying existing and new legislation, expecting future legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, recommending management on needed actions.
• Collaborate with a Team: Work collaboratively and pro-actively with other providers and health care practitioners within Lowell CHC to efficiently treat patients, and plan coordinated, efficient, and thoughtful care (including transfer), all in a timely manner.
• Continuing Education & Mentorship: Act as a clinic leader, especially when the Nurse Manager is not in-clinic. Provide support and mentorship to new-graduate providers as well as other clinic staff.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, setting up personal networks, and taking part in professional societies.
• Act as a preceptor to new provider staff, providing information, educational opportunities, and experiential growth opportunities.

Required Skills, Experience, And Education

• Master's degree and certification by Nurse Practitioner (NP) certifying body – preferably Family Medicine but other primary care specialization with relevant experience noted below are welcome to apply
• Minimum 2-5 years of clinical practice, with focused experience in addiction medicine, urgent care, or emergency/walk-in settings
• Must have and maintain all required licenses/certifications such as state license, board certification, controlled substance and DEA licenses.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Relevant experience: Clinical experience in emergency medicine, urgent care, or ambulatory care setting .is preferred.
• Strong leadership skills: Willing and able to mentor provider as well as non-provider clinic staff.
• Excellent team player: Enjoy collaborating with others and being a part of a strong team dynamic.
• Proactive and confident communicator (written and verbal): Foreshadows and elevates concerns as they arise, unafraid of professional directness both with colleagues and patients.
• Compassionate, authentic, and patient focused: Supports patients through kindness; demonstrating understanding for others and contributing to the creating a community of belonging.
• Technically savvy: Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software and clinical management systems EPIC (EMR).
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Principles and processes for providing customer and personal services, including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations including the requirements of HRSA, DPH, HIPAA and OSHA and applicable state rules and regulations pertinent to medical practices.
  • Relevant drugs and their chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo.
  • Non-pharmaceutical patient care aids, their applicable uses, and relevance to patient care.
  • Current principles, methods, and procedures for the delivery of medical evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.