What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Nurse Practitioner position at LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CTR.?
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.
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.
Salary : $120,000 - $127,000