Nurse Practitioner

Title: Nurse Practitioner

Department: Medical

Exemption/FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports to: Director of Clinical Operations

Direct report(s): None

Work hours: 40 hours per week; Monday through Friday 8:30am-5pm; occasional evening and rare weekends

Work location & format: 417 South Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620. Offsite work as directed at health fairs, school sites, and mobile medical unit.

Position Summary: Are you a compassionate and dedicated Nurse Practitioner (NP) looking to make a meaningful impact in your community—while maintaining a healthy work-life balance? Join our mission-driven team at Saint Joseph's Neighborhood Center, a community-focused healthcare facility committed to delivering comprehensive, patient-centered care to individuals and families. As a Nurse Practitioner at our clinic, you'll work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to provide primary and preventative care to a diverse patient population. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a supportive, inclusive environment and values meaningful patient relationships over volume-based care.

Alignment with Strategic Pillars:

1. Strengthening and Building Out Infrastructure: The NP should be the position with the fullest patient panel and daily schedule. This position supports the Strategic Pillar by providing access to medical care. In addition, as a full-time onsite individual, this position should provide the primary coverage for urgent medical appointments and unexpected absences from volunteer providers.

2. IDEAA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Action) This position supports the Strategic Pillar by providing equitable care in accordance with best practice, with a full awareness of health disparities and how to address them.

3. Enlarge Community Presence: The NP should network with other professional colleagues and community partners to refer potential patients with no insurance or access to medical, mental health, or other social supports.

Key Job Responsibility Areas

 1. Patient Care

 2. Record management and Referrals

 3. Miscellaneous

Details of Key Job Responsibility Areas

1. Patient Care

• Maintains, manages, and provides primary care for an established panel of assigned patients, as well as accepts new patients
• Provides preventative health services within the confines of the center’s capability
• Perform work/school physicals
• Perform complete history and physicals on all new patients and annually as needed
• Provides supportive care indirectly to individuals via phone calls. This includes interpreting and reporting their lap/radiology results
• As NYS has Child Health Plus insurance, SJNC provides limited care for individuals under the age of 18. However, when deemed appropriate by the Director of Clinical Operations, the NP/FNP would be the designated provider for this group including but not limited to the purpose of school and work physicals

2. Record management and Referrals

• Maintains timely and complete charting and notes in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) on all assigned patients in accordance with organizational policies and procedures
• Refers patients to internal and external resources as needed to optimize patient care

3. Miscellaneous duties

• Will mentor/precept NP students primarily by precepting at least one student a year (after completion of 1 year of service)
• Employees are accountable to meet the performance standards of their departments and may be called upon to participate in required compliance audits, process improvement, and quality improvement plans
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements and Qualifications

• Nurse Practitioner degree (MSN) from an accredited recognized Program with license to practice in NYS and is Board Certified
• At least two years of clinical practice as an NP
• Malpractice Insurance
• Requires valid NYS driver’s license as this position may drive the organizations Mobile Outreach Unit (MOU) and other agency owned vehicles
• Requires valid NYS driver license, own reliable vehicle, and liability insurance of $100,000/$300,000 as employee will need to drive for work purposes

Skills and Abilities

• Requires individual demonstration of St. joseph’s Neighborhood Center’s mission, values, and culture
• Appreciation for community-based, social justice focused organizations
• Maintain the highest degree of confidentiality and trustworthiness in a Health Care setting. All team members are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of all patients, clients, neighbors, employees, volunteers, and all protected and proprietary information
• Requires the ability and commitment to respect and support inclusiveness and diversity including but not limited to individuals of different backgrounds, cultures, races, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, experiences, opinions, etc.
• Ability to positively interact with people (staff, volunteers, and external partners) of diverse backgrounds, professions, skills and abilities in a fast-paced environments, sometimes under pressure
• Demonstrated ability to communicate in spoken and written form, professionally, accurately and effectively with culturally diverse groups if individuals
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, work accurately and efficiently to meet deadlines
• Strong Organizational skills, attention to detail, and initiative
• Demonstrates critical thinking, flexibility, and customer service/focus
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively as a member of an interdisciplinary team of licensed and unlicensed volunteers and staff
• Ability to manage multiple, simultaneous, and occasionally complex projects to achieve desired results utilizing project management skills

Physical Requirements

In compliance with New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) infection control requirements for healthcare organizations, St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center (SJNC) requires that all new and existing employees and volunteers provide documentation to demonstrate:

• Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccination or titer
• Completion of a Tuberculosis (TB) test within six months
• Hepatitis B vaccination or declination form
• Flu vaccination or mask required in patient/client areas during flu season
• COVID 19 vaccination series or mask required in patient/client areas during prevalent respiratory virus season
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, sit, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear
• Occasionally, the employee must stoop, bend, lift, or move up to 25 lbs. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

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responsibilities and qualifications deemed essential to the position