What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Practice Provider position at Anchor Health?
Anchor Health is Connecticut’s leading health center for the LGBTQ community. We deliver high-quality, evidence-based, gender-affirming, and trauma-informed medical care to a diverse patient population across the state. Our interdisciplinary model integrates primary care, HIV medicine, sexual health, behavioral health, pharmacy, and supportive services to advance health equity for LGBTQ people.
Due to continued growth, we are seeking a Primary Care Advanced Practice Provider (APRN or PA) to join our clinical team.
The Role
The Primary Care APP provides comprehensive, LGBTQ-competent primary care across the lifespan (for FNPs), including gender-affirming medicine, HIV prevention and treatment, sexual health services, and evidence-based preventive care. APPs practice at the top of their license within a highly supportive clinical environment, with close collaboration from physician colleagues, pharmacists, and senior APP clinical leads in Gender-Affirming Care and HIV Medicine.
What You’ll Do
Due to continued growth, we are seeking a Primary Care Advanced Practice Provider (APRN or PA) to join our clinical team.
The Role
The Primary Care APP provides comprehensive, LGBTQ-competent primary care across the lifespan (for FNPs), including gender-affirming medicine, HIV prevention and treatment, sexual health services, and evidence-based preventive care. APPs practice at the top of their license within a highly supportive clinical environment, with close collaboration from physician colleagues, pharmacists, and senior APP clinical leads in Gender-Affirming Care and HIV Medicine.
What You’ll Do
- Provide excellent, evidence-based, trauma-informed primary care, gender-affirming care, HIV prevention/treatment, sexual health and urgent care to a diverse patient population through routine follow-up visits, annual physical exams, urgent/sick visits, pre-operative clearance visits, pelvic exams, office-based procedures and telehealth visits.
- Screens and address preventive health and behavioral health needs, including substance use, social determinants of health, and sexual health.
- Manage patient care, including ordering diagnostic testing, medications, referrals, InBasket messages and other interventions.
- Provide education to patients and their care partners.
- Maintain accurate records by closing charts within 7 days.
- Participate in regular staff meetings, clinician meetings, and community outreach events.
- Provides supervision, consultation, and clinical support to RNs, and other clinical staff and trainees as needed.
- Participate in peer review, case conferences, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Competitive salary
- Generous PTO
- Five dedicated CME days per year
- Annual CME budget of $5000/year
- Retirement 403 (b) plan with 4% employer match that is vested right away
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility
- License and board certification fee reimbursement
- MD or DO licensure in Connecticut
- Board certification in MedPeds, family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine and/or OB/Gyn
- BLS certification
- Experience working with and awareness of needs specific to the LGBTQ community.
- Ability to maintain work effectively and respectfully with colleagues, patients, vendors and community partners regardless of their ***enter non-discrimination here
- Ability to maintain a trauma-informed space.
- Spanish language fluency
- One year experience providing gender-affirming medical care -OR- 1-year experience providing STI treatment and HIV prevention/treatment services
- Experience treating substance use disorders
- AAHIVS Certification
- WPATH Certification
- Experience with Testopel, Nexplanon and/or Supprelin insertion and removal
- Basic procedural skills including I&D, suturing and trauma-informed pelvic exams
- IUD insertion experience
- POCUS (point-of-care ultrasound) experience
- One year of experience using Epic (electronic health record)
Salary : $5,000