PRIMARY PURPOSE:

To provide comprehensive, culturally competent, and patient-centered primary care to adult patients in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). The APRN plays a key role in delivering preventive, acute, and chronic-care services to a medically underserved population, with an emphasis on health equity, access, and community-based care.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: 

• Provide comprehensive adult primary care, including wellness visits, acute sick visits, and chronic disease management.
• Perform comprehensive history and physical examinations, health risk assessments, and behavioral health screenings.
• Diagnose and treat acute and chronic medical conditions across a broad adult patient population.
• Order and interpret laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Prescribe medications in accordance with state and federal guidelines.
• Administer immunizations per CDC guidelines and monitor preventive care compliance.
• Manage care for patients with chronic conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD, HIV, obesity, and behavioral health disorders.
• Provide patient education on nutrition, chronic disease self-management, preventive care, and healthy lifestyle practices.
• Address social determinants of health impacting patients and connect patients to appropriate community resources.
• Collaborate with physicians, nurses, social workers, behavioral health providers, and case managers.
• Participate in care coordination, referrals, and follow-up services.
• Ensure accurate, timely documentation in the electronic health record (EHR).
• Meet productivity, quality, and compliance metrics (e.g., UDS measures).
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and patient-centered medical home (PCMH) activities.
• Provide care regardless of patients’ ability to pay.
• Deliver culturally sensitive care to diverse and underserved populations.
• Support outreach, community engagement, and health education initiatives.
• Maintain compliance with HRSA, UDS, and other federal program requirements.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team huddles and case conferences.
• Assist with grant-supported programs, including HIV services and other community health initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned. 

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Strong clinical and diagnostic skills in adult primary care medicine.
• Knowledge of evidence-based preventive health guidelines, chronic disease management, and adult health screenings.
• Ability to manage complex social and medical needs across a diverse adult patient population.
• Strong cultural competence and trauma-informed care approach.
• Effective communication with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with EHR systems and quality reporting measures.
• Commitment to health equity, community-based care, and serving medically underserved populations.
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally in English, both verbally and in writing, across all clinical and administrative interactions.
• Ability to review, understand, and apply concepts presented in training programs, conferences, and professional literature.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, and Word, and ability to navigate electronic health record systems.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality of all patient, medical, and financial information in compliance with HIPAA regulations.
• Comfort working in an environment where staff education on HIV prevention and sexual health is part of the agency’s mission, which may include exposure to explicit health materials and direct conversations on sensitive topics.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to endure short, intermittent, and/or long periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties.
• Full range of body motion required. Position requires reaching, bending, and handling objects with hands and/or fingers, talking and/or hearing, and sight.
• Ability to work in a patient care setting with possible exposure to blood and body fluids and communicable diseases, utilizing standard precautions to prevent disease transmission.
• Ability to lift and carry objects weighing 25 pounds or less.
• Use standard office equipment and technology, including computers, telephones, and clinical equipment and systems, in the course of daily duties.
• Ability to travel to other FoundCare locations and perform job duties. 
• Ability to travel to other locations to attend meetings, workshops, and seminars, plus travel to other FoundCare departments and FoundCare conference rooms. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s or Doctoral degree in Nursing (MSN or DNP). 
• Board Certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC) or Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (AGNP) preferred.
• Current APRN license in the state of practice.
• DEA license and prescriptive authority.
• BLS certification required, PALS preferred.
• Experience working in adult primary care; FQHC or underserved setting preferred.
• Preferred: Bilingual proficiency in English and Haitian Creole or Spanish.
• Preferred: Experience in geriatric care or with older adult populations.
• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.