Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

For more than three decades, Friends For Life has been preventing the spread of HIV and helping those affected by HIV/AIDS live well. Our holistic, client-centered approach provides a variety of services coordinated through one centralized model. We strive to address the roots of need—including stigma and inequality—to improve health and wellness for everyone we serve. Our goal is to eliminate new transmissions of HIV in Memphis and the Mid-South and empower those living with HIV to become their healthiest, happiest selves.

• A commitment to work-life balance with:
  1. 12 accrued vacation days per year
  2. 12 accrued sick days per year
  3. 14 paid holidays, including Your Birthday!
  4. Sick Bank allows employees to donate sick time to other employees with a serious health condition
  5. Flex schedule available for most positions
• Employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance with two PPO medical and Dental plans. Costs for employee per pay period (bi-weekly)
  1. BCBS PPO Plans
     • PPO Gold premium = $ 28.88
     • PPO Platinum premium = $56.15
  2. Dental Plans

• PPO Low = $ 1.14
• PPO High = $5.81

• 401k program with up to 3% employer match starting immediately
• Employer-paid basic life insurance valued at $50,000
• Employer-paid Short-term disability
• Voluntary Life and AD&D, Long-term disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Student Loan Forgiveness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program with in person counseling options

The Primary Care Nurse Practitioner provides direct care primary care to patients. The clinic also specializes in giving care to PrEP, PEP, and STI patients, as well as specializes in the treatment and care of individuals diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. In alignment with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and driven by a strong commitment to customer service, the Nurse Practitioner displays a high level of expertise and competence in HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STI) risk factors, symptoms, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention modalities.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Facilitates entry of the patient into the health care system, by assessing the primary health care needs, including eliciting comprehensive health histories, performing physical examinations, ordering and/or performing pertinent diagnostic tests, analyzing collected data to determine client health status and formulating a problem list (diagnosis.)
• Provides coordinated, continuous and culturally competent primary health care to clients that span the health continuum through mutual goal setting and planning delivery of care

• Perform physical examinations, order laboratory tests, and interpret information collected in comprehensive health assessment to identify and assess patient's clinical concerns and health care needs.
• Provide follow-up information to patients about abnormal test results and necessary referrals, and follow mandatory reporting requirements.

• Prescribes a variety of treatment modalities to meet health and illness needs
• Collaborates with leadership, nurse practitioner, community health coaches and other clinic staff to assure that health teaching and counseling is provided
• Meets average monthly provider productivity standards including but not limited to number of visits
• Manages and evaluates the plan of care, process and outcome and then modifies the plan as needed.
• Collaborates with other multidisciplinary professionals and community agencies to provide high quality care
• Coordinates services in conjunction with other team members to meet patient’s primary health care needs and to ensure the continuity of care.
• Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections, HIV and related conditions.
• Provide general health supervision, counseling and education to patients regarding health promotion maintenance and individual high-risk conditions
• Refer deviations from normal treatment and diagnosis protocols to the medical director of the clinic or the appropriate health care professional.
• Prescribes and administer medication for treatment of diagnosed conditions or the prevention thereof.
• Complete prior authorizations and appeals as necessary
• Complete home visits as necessary
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of disease progression and relevant therapies
• Utilizes electronic medical records system to document patient care including update patient status. Charts must be closed within 24 hours or by COB next business day.
• Maintain confidential records in keeping with all applicable ethical guidelines and legal requirements.
• Assist in routine review, and revision of organizational policies and procedures, as applicable.
• Correct deficits raised by audits to ensure quality medical standards.
• Knowledge of and compliance with Tennessee Department of Health and local legal mandates
• Assist in development and implementation of clinical services expansion including, but not limited to, primary care, HCV, and medication-assisted therapy for opiate use disorder.
• Assist in the implementation of third-party billing.
• Assist in the hiring and supervision of an expanding clinical services team
• Work as assigned, including weekends and evening hours and at other clinic sites as needed.
• Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.
• Assist in providing accurate, complete and timely data entry and reporting of all relevant program and consumer data into CAREware and/or other reporting systems as requested by supervisor.
• Submit quarterly/monthly data for reports by the 5th day of each program quarter/month as assigned.
• Submit data for annual reports by the 5th day of the month following the end of the program year as assigned.

• Management duties may be assigned based on level of candidate
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Participate in weekly or biweekly coaching sessions with supervisor
• Participate in the patient staffing meeting weekly

What you can bring to Friends For Life to be successful:

• Graduation from an accredited college or university, or an equivalent program as determined by the TN Board of Nursing, with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and a Master's Degree in Public Health, Community Health Nursing or other appropriate nursing specialty; and successful completion of a Nurse Practitioner Program.
• Three (3) years of full-time equivalent post-licensure experience as a Registered Nurse; two (2) years of these 3 years must have been in patient evaluation, diagnosis and treatment and one (1) year of these 2 years must have been in community health nursing.
• Experience working with persons with HIV/AIDS and/or other issues including sexual health, reproductive health, drug use, homelessness, mental illness
• Active NPI and TennCare provider ID are required
• Medicaid provider ID for MS and AR preferred
• Must have a valid State Driver’s License, provide proof of automobile insurance coverage to employer at all times and have an automobile to be used daily to perform job duties.
• Must have a working knowledge of MS Windows and MS office suite with an emphasis on MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Outlook.
• Proven ability to accomplish duties
• Experience with Netsuite, NBS reporting, Evaluation Web, RedCap, CareWare (preferred)
• Good strategic/critical thinker, self-starter, goal-oriented
• Excellent verbal and written communications.
• Ability to operate with purpose, urgency and accuracy in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment -- with particular attention to detail and organization
• Strong relationship-builder both with team and clients(internal and external)
• Competence in Excel and other Microsoft applications as well as Adobe
• Competence in Sharepoint and other applications
• Regular and predictable attendance is necessary.
• Maintain confidential information and adhere to all Friends For All policies and procedures regarding Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Stellar strategic/critical thinker
• Strong relationship-builder both with team and clients(internal and external)
• Ability to operate with purpose, urgency and accuracy in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment -- with particular attention to detail and organization
• Must demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills.Competence in Excel and other Microsoft applications as well as Adobe
• Competence in Sharepoint and other applications
• Regular and predictable attendance is necessary
• Maintain confidential information and adhere to all Friends For Life policies and procedures regarding Protected Health Information (PHI)
• Preferred: previous experience in a health care setting dealing with HIV/AIDS clients
• Billingual a plus!

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• Must have a valid State Driver’s License, provide proof of automobile insurance coverage to employer at all times and have an automobile to be used daily.
• Possession of a current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the United States and certification as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of Tennessee issued, or recognized, by the Tennessee Board of Nursing (TBON). Tennessee accepts as valid current RN licensure from a candidate's primary state of residence if that state is a party to National Nurse Licensure
• Recognition as an APRN by State Board of Nursing and National Certification through appropriate body or recognition by the State Board of Medical Examiners as a Physician Assistant.
• Eligibility for certification or certification as Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant by the national certifying board.
• CPR Certification

COMMENTS:

This description is intended to describe the essential job functions, the general supplemental functions and the essential requirements for the performance of this job. Itis not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and requirements of a person so classified. Other functions may be assigned and management retains the right to add or change the duties at any time.

MISSION DRIVEN:

We’re a mission driven organization made up of people committed to cultivating growth and learning. We believe in providing care for all of our clients while providing a welcoming, balanced environment for all of our employees. By joining our team you are joining a group of community focused professionals who connect people with care.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Must be sensitive to the culturally and racially diverse nature of clients, patients, employees, and visitors.
• Must be able to interact with everyone in a friendly, helpful manner.

ADA SPECIFICATIONS:

Physical demands that must be met in order to successfully complete the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Requires ability to speak audibly and listen actively.
• Requires ability to use computers, telephones and other office equipment.
• Requires ability to sit for extended periods.
• May require occasional bending and lifting up to 25 pounds.
• May require periodic local travel.

OSHA CATEGORY:

This position performs tasks that may involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues. Training will be provided per Standard Operating Procedure for your area of operation. All FFA employees are offered the opportunity to receive the Hepatitis B vaccination series.

Friends For All (FFA) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: FFA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with an equitable and inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at FFA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by all applicable federal, state and local laws or regulations. FFA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.