Part Time FNP at a Community Teaching Clinic

Luke's House: A Clinic for Healing and Hope; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Luke’s House Clinic in New Orleans, LA is seeking a licensed Family Nurse Practitioner to lead clinical programs and provide comprehensive primary and preventive care in a part-time role (16 hours/week). The position emphasizes outreach to underserved communities and collaboration with volunteer physicians and students.

The role supports a medical student rotation program, coordination of care teams, and ongoing clinic operations.

Qualifications

• Must hold a valid Louisiana Family Nurse Practitioner license.
• Spanish proficiency strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive primary and preventive care within scope of practice.
• Lead clinical programs expanding access to care, including women’s health, immunizations, and chronic disease management.
• Support medical student rotation program and liaison to nursing/NP programs for new rotations.
• Ensure continuity of care across clinic sessions with follow-up, referrals and clinical handoffs.
• Strengthen clinic operations through planning, appointment optimization, workflows, and follow-up.

Skills

Spanish proficiency

FNP licensed

Education

Louisiana licensed Family Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Family Nurse Practitioner & Clinical Program Lead

Part-Time • 16 Hours/Week • $50,000/Year • Available Immediately

Luke’s House Clinic | New Orleans, Louisiana

Role at a Glance

• Provide comprehensive, culturally responsive primary and preventive care within scope of practice.
• Lead clinical programs that expand access to care, including women’s health, immunizations, chronic disease management, and other identified community needs.
• Support the medical student rotation program and serve as the primary liaison to nursing and NP programs for new clinical rotations.
• Ensure continuity of care across clinic sessions, including follow-up, referrals, and clinical handoffs.
• Strengthen clinic operations through pre-clinic planning, appointment optimization, clinic workflows, and care follow-up.
• Build and coordinate care teams that connect uninsured and medically underserved patients with community resources.

TUESDAY/THURSDAY CLINIC SESSION

The FNP will have scheduled appointments while also serving as a clinical and educational resource across the Tuesday and Thursday clinic sessions. A typical night may include two scheduled women’s health visits, vaccinations, clinical instruction for medical and nursing students, and collaboration with volunteer physicians to ensure quality and continuity of care.

1. Pre-Clinic Huddle: Review scheduled patients, visit types, interpreter needs, supplies, vaccines, anticipated consultations, and other pre-clinic needs. Communicate follow-up updates to volunteer providers and prepare medical students for their assigned roles.
2. Student-Led Intake: Medical students may obtain patient history, vital signs, medications and allergies, immunization history, pregnancy status when relevant, and screening information. The FNP reviews and confirms information needed for clinical decision-making.
3. FNP Evaluation: See scheduled patients for primary, preventive, and women’s health care, including routine Pap appointments. Complete assessment, examination, diagnosis, testing, treatment, prescriptions, education, and referrals when appropriate.
4. Cross-Clinic Care: Provide vaccinations, procedures, clinical consultation, or other services needed by patients seen by volunteer clinical providers. Incorporate students into care and teaching when appropriate.
5. Checkout & Navigation: Ensure patients understand their care plan and next steps, schedule follow-up, and assist with referrals, education, and navigation needs identified during the session.
6. Session Close: Reconcile orders, specimens, referrals, and documentation; identify follow-up needs; secure supplies and vaccines; and document unresolved clinical needs.

Remaining Weekly Hours

The remaining four hours per week may be completed virtually and used for administrative and program responsibilities, including staff meetings, clinical quality/QA-QI meetings, board meetings when appropriate, student and academic coordination, patient follow-up, program development, and other administrative work.

There is potential for the position’s hours to increase as additional funding becomes available.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Care & Patient Education

• Assess, diagnose, treat, and follow patients within scope of practice.
• Provide preventive care, chronic disease management, screenings, immunizations, testing, referrals, and patient education.
• Order and review labs and diagnostic studies and respond appropriately to abnormal or urgent findings.
• Prescribe medications and coordinate specialty and follow-up care.
• Provide culturally and linguistically appropriate care using qualified interpretation when needed.
• Maintain accurate, timely clinical documentation.

Program Development & Leadership

• Develop and lead clinical programs that respond to community needs and gaps in care.
• Create effective clinical workflows, policies, procedures, and quality measures.
• Guide staff, volunteers, and learners in program implementation and clinical operations.
• Collaborate with physicians, clinic leadership, academic institutions, and community partners to expand access and improve care.
• Support grant activities, outreach, reporting, and quality improvement initiatives.

Academic Partnerships & Student Rotations

• Lead the medical student rotation program, including onboarding, scheduling, learning objectives, and evaluation.
• Develop partnerships with nursing and NP programs and expand nursing and advanced-practice student rotations.
• Provide structured learning experiences focused on community health, cultural humility, interprofessional care, and underserved populations.
• Mentor learners while ensuring patient safety, privacy, and effective clinic flow.

Continuity, Results & Referral Management

• Ensure reliable follow-up of labs, diagnostic studies, referrals, prescriptions, and other pending clinical needs.
• Review and respond to abnormal and critical results, including patient notification, confirmatory testing, treatment, and escalation when necessary.
• Coordinate specialty referrals and track significant referrals through completion or documented follow-up attempts.
• Maintain clear clinical handoffs and coverage for unresolved or time-sensitive patient needs between clinic days and during absences.
• Establish clear staff responsibilities and escalation pathways to support continuity and patient safety.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Must be a licensed Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) with current Louisiana licensure.
• Applicants must be able to commit to a minimum 12-month commitment.
• Spanish proficiency strongly preferred.

Luke’s House Clinic

2222 Simon Bolivar Avenue

New Orleans, LA 70113

504-444-7879

www.lukeshouseclinic.org