Family Nurse Practitioner – Part Time, Rural Health Outreach

Description

WESTSIDE IS LOOKING FOR A PART TIME NURSE PRACTITIONER TO JOIN OUR RURAL OUTREACH TEAM!

JOIN A CARING, DEDICATED TEAM MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY!

Westside Family Healthcare is a nonprofit organization that provides high quality primary medical care without regard to ability to pay. The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) - Rural Health Outreach provides direct patient care with a focus on acute care, prevention, and education for individuals served by Westside’s Rural Health Outreach (RHO) team. This role works in close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of providers and allied health professionals to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. This position is Part-time, primarily evenings and weekends. 

Westside Family Healthcare’s Rural Health Outreach Program serves Delaware’s farmworker population—communities that often experience significant barriers to care due to language, transportation, and economic challenges. As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Westside operates a mobile health unit that travels to farms, camps, and community sites across Kent and Western Sussex Counties. Through this program, the RHO team provides comprehensive, culturally competent healthcare services directly in the communities where patients live and work. Services include primary medical care, behavioral health, infectious disease screening and treatment, immunizations, health education, and care coordination. By delivering care on-site, the program ensures that farmworkers and their families receive the support they need—regardless of their ability to pay. The FNP will work on the mobile health unit, with clinical hours primarily in the evenings and weekends to align with the availability of the farmworker population. Some shifts may extend late into the evening depending on location and patient volume. 

Our Mission: To improve the health of our communities by providing equal access to quality healthcare, regardless of ability to pay
Our Vision: Achieve health access for all
Our Values:

• Compassion: Lead with compassion
• Service: Serve with humility
• Excellence: Be exceptional
• Empowerment: Empower all people

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

1. Provide primary medical care to patients, including collecting and recording patient information in the EMR in a thorough and timely manner; prescribing or administering treatment; ordering, performing, and interpreting tests and analyzing records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' conditions; monitoring patients' conditions and progress and reevaluating treatments as necessary; explaining procedures and discussing test results or prescribed treatments with patients; advising patients concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention; and referring patients to the hospital, medical specialists, or other practitioners when necessary 
2. Coordinate work with other members of the care team, including nurses, social workers, counselors, pharmacists, and other health care providers 
3. Provide emergency medical treatment to Westside patients as needed, and provide emergency medical treatment as requested or appropriate to non-Westside patients who are at or near a location where the FNP is present for the purpose of providing services within Westside’s scope of services 
4. Participate in the training of residents and health care professional students
5. Implement clinical department policies, protocols, and procedures that are in compliance with the most current, accepted professional standards, as well the standards of The Joint Commission 
6. Participate in activities to increase appropriate utilization of available services by patients of Westside Family Healthcare, Inc. 
7. Participate in staff education and professional development activities, including continuing education credit requirements to maintain licensure and Basic Life Support certification 
8. Participate in WFH performance improvement programs and in community education and outreach programs offered by Westside 

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Requirements

MINIMUM OBJECTIVE QUALIFICATIONS

1. Graduate of an accredited school or college of nursing with a master’s degree in nursing
2. Current registered nurse licensure and advanced registered nurse practitioner licensure and certification
3. Clinical training and experience in ambulatory care
4. Ability to work in the evenings and weekends to align with the availability of the farmworker population. 
5. Basic life support certification
6. Ability to travel between worksites as needed