Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Caring Health Center, Inc.; Springfield (MA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Caring Health Center, Inc. in Springfield, MA is hiring a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner on a full-time, on-site basis. The role reports to the Chief Medical Officer and carries exempt status with salary ranges listed.

The NP will conduct comprehensive assessments, provide pediatric and family planning services, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver care to underserved populations.

Qualifications

• Current Massachusetts NP licensure and/or eligibility.
• Current Mass CSR and DEA licenses.
• Certification in Pediatrics or Family Practice with pediatric focus.
• Ability to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including physicians, PAs, NPs, nursing staff, MAs, CHWs, nutritionists, social workers and case managers.
• Ambulatory care and/or public health experience preferred.
• Fluency in Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Nepali, Pashto, Dari, Swahili or other CHC languages.
• Special expertise serving underserved, culturally diverse populations.
• Proficiency in providing family planning services.
• Interest in collaborations with schools and behavioral health agencies.

Responsibilities

• Conducts comprehensive patient assessments (in person or telemed) and develops treatment plans.
• Integrates wellness, health promotion, disease prevention, and self-care discussions.
• Assesses social determinants affecting child/adolescent health.
• Provides comprehensive clinical family planning services when appropriate.
• Maintains charts timely and meets risk management requirements.
• Collaborates with CHC physicians and other providers for complex cases.
• Refers patients to specialists when needed and participates in on-call schedule.
• Supports quality improvement and chart reviews with CHC leadership.
• Keeps Pediatric NP guidelines current and maintains CME/CEU requirements.
• Adheres to CHC compliance standards and uses computer systems effectively.

Skills

Team collaboration

Telemedicine

Spanish language

Arabic language

Russian language

Nepali language

Pashto language

Swahili language

Culturally diverse patient care

Education

Massachusetts NP licensure

CSR and DEA licenses

Certification in Pediatrics

Tools

EMR / charting systems

Computer literacy

Job description

Position Overview

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Job Category: Healthcare Provider

Requisition Number: PEDIA001016

Full-Time On-site Springfield, MA 01103, USA

Reports to: Chief Medical Officer

Salary/Status: Exempt Minimum

Requirements

• Current Massachusetts NP licensure and /or eligibility for certification.
• Current Mass CSR and DEA licenses.
• Certification in Pediatrics or certification in Family Practice with a special interest in pediatric & adolescent medicine.
• Ability to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, including physicians, PAs and NPs, nursing staff, medical assistants, community health workers, nutritionists, social workers, and case managers.
• Previous experience in ambulatory care and/or public health is preferred.
• Desirable: Fluency in Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Nepali, Pashto, Dari, Swahili, or another language served at CHC.
• Special expertise in provision of health care to underserved, culturally diverse populations.
• Proficiency in assessment and delivery of family planning services to a diverse population.
• Interest in developing and maintaining collaborations with outside institutions and agencies that play a critical role in a child and adolescent\'s health, for example - schools and behavioral health agencies.

Responsibilities

• Conducts comprehensive patient assessments - both in-person and via telemed, both audio and video . Identifies potential and actual health and health-related problems, both acute and chronic, and together with patient and family /guardian, develops and implements treatment plans that include pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic components.
• This includes the weaving of important discussions re: wellness, health promotion, disease prevention, and self-care.
• Assessment of possible social determinants of health that may be playing a role in a child?s or adolescent?s health trajectory is also important.
• Offers comprehensive clinical family planning services when appropriate.
• Reviews patient charts and ensures health maintenance issues are addressed in a timely way and that appropriate treatment plans are developed and followed.
• Completes all charts as soon as possible, but no later than 72 hours after the visit.
• Charts also need to be completed in a manner that meets all risk management and chart audit requirements.
• Collaborates and consults with CHC physicians and other providers as needed, especially in the care of more complex patients.
• When deemed necessary, refers patients to appropriate specialists and other practitioners and facilities.
• Participates in the Pediatric \"On Call\" schedule.
• Cooperates with efforts of CHC administration to monitor and improve the quality of patient care by evaluating patient outcomes.
• Maintains updated Pediatric Nurse Practitioner guidelines as well as those developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
• Participates in peer review of charts.
• Maintains all CME/CEU, Board and Licensing requirements of state and national governing Boards.
• This position requires compliance with Caring Health Center\'s compliance standards including its Standard of Conduct, Compliance program, and policies and procedures.
• Such compliance will be an element considered as part of the Nurse Practitioner\'s regular performance evaluation.
• This position also requires the ability to use a computer, work at a computer workstation, view a CRT and have some knowledge of a keyboard.
• From time to time, it also requires the ability to work long and arduous hours.

Salary

Salary ranges from \$125,000 - \$167,990