Nurse Practitioner, Adolescent Health

Overview

The Center for Adolescent Health at People's Community Clinic in Austin, TX is recruiting for an adolescent medicine-focused nurse practitioner or physician assistant. This is an opportunity to join an established interdisciplinary team that enjoys its work with diverse youth ages 10-24. The adolescent department provides a range of primary and specialty care, including reproductive health, mental health, developmental differences, and chronic disease management. There are formal and informal collaborations with other nonprofits, school districts, and universities. Most clinicians are involved in advocacy work. There are opportunities for teaching and mentoring. The program has received multiple awards and recognition for its role in promoting adolescent health.

People's Community Clinic is a Federally Qualified Health Center serving all ages. The clinic offers Integrated Behavioral Health, OB care, pediatric and adult care, a teaching kitchen, Community Health Workers, Health Education, and more.

Responsibilities

Provide direct medical care for patients according to established standards of care, including:

• Perform age appropriate physical examinations and assessments.
• Take medical histories and record chart data and service data as per established clinic procedures and accepted standards of clinical practice.
• Assess, diagnose illnesses and/or conditions, and establish a plan for treatment/management according to accepted standards of care.
• Counsel patients about course of treatment, prescribed medications, general health and wellness, and management of diagnosed conditions.
• Provide patients with telephone counseling for issues including but not limited to laboratory test results, follow up treatment, and patient inquiries.
• Make referrals to medical specialists, social services, and other services as indicated by presenting problems.
• Provide any medically necessary follow-up on diagnosis, diagnostic evaluation, or treatment required for the patient's care.
• Participate in the rotating provider responsibility to be on-call for the after-hours nurse triage service, which takes first calls from patients but may in some cases require provider backup.
• Provide cross-coverage for the care of clinic patients when the provider with the primary relationship with the patient is not available (eg, responding to lab results or phone messages when the primary provider is not available).
• Work effectively with other staff providing leadership among assigned nursing and other support staff to coordinate team-based care of the patient.

Maintain standards of proficiency, service quality, efficiency and effectiveness in all task areas.

• Provide direct care in an efficient and timely manner.
• Provide direct care services as scheduled during the week.
• Meet standards for quality of care and number of patients seen as set by management under the direction of the board.
• Maintain professional licensing and certifications.
• Maintain practice liability insurance coverage unless covered through the Federal Tort Claims Act.
• Participate in quality improvement/quality assurance activities, which may include completing chart audits on schedule and according to clinic procedures.
• Identify opportunities to improve work flow, work processes and patient care, and work cooperatively to implement these and other quality improvements.
• Adhere to HIPAA guidelines.

Participate in program planning, development, evaluation and implementation activities:

• When requested, work with medical department head to update protocols and guidelines.
• As assigned, review patient education materials for accuracy, utility and appropriateness.
• Participate in meetings, task groups and activities designed to promote communications, identify and resolve problems, devise work plans, and establish program or departmental objectives.

Qualifications

Education:

• BS or BA with graduation from an accredited NP or PA program.

Experience:

• Minimum two years' experience as a NP or PA serving a diverse patient population in a primary care facility preferred.
• CPR Certified

Certificate/License:

• Certified to practice as a nurse practitioner or physician assistant in the State of Texas

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bilingual in English/Spanish preferred
• Theory and practice of medical care as appropriate to the needs of the practice; basic clinic practices, techniques, and methods of operation; public and community health service practice; generally accepted professional and ethical standards of patient-centered care; charting, reading of medical history and presenting problems, assessing laboratory results, maintaining accurate medical records, use of basic instruments for medical examination and assessment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Problem identification and resolution skills
• Time management skills
• Able to apply exceedingly complex procedures and methods involving knowledge in a specialized field equivalent to a four year college education and one or more years graduate work or specialized training leading to advanced degrees
• Able to maintain effective and consistently cordial working relationships with physicians and other employees;
• Flexible and adaptable in a high change environment
• Able to work independently under protocol.

People's Community Clinic is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, language, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or sex stereotyping.

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