Nurse Practitioner

About the role

The Community Health Care Van (CHCV) program is a fully integrated medical and harm reduction program operating in New Haven since 1993. The CHCV provides medical and behavioral health care, overdose prevention, and case management. This position is a dual focus clinical role, combining direct primary care, infectious disease treatment, and telehealth and in-person hepatitis C (HCV) assessments and treatment.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct primary care and infectious disease treatment in both an office and mobile health setting.
• Provides telehealth and in-person hepatitis C (HCV) assessments and treatment for a SAMHSA-funded project (COMPASS).
• Collaborates with the clinical team to provide coverage for day-to-day clinical operations and split responsibility for SAMHSA HCV treatment grant.
• Ensures patients receive a patient-centered, low-barrier approach to care.
• Provides bridging primary care, STI diagnosis and treatment, PrEP, and other infectious disease related services on a mobile clinic or fixed clinic location.
• Provides care for skin and soft tissue infections and wounds related to injecting and coordinates care with emergency and inpatient services.
• Provides overdose prevention, infection and disease prevention counseling to patients.
• Participates in team and funder meetings and quality improvement activities to guide service delivery.
• Accepts referrals from partner sites in CT for medical management of HCV and other medical needs by telehealth per a designated schedule.
• Completes thorough patient assessments, assesses health-related social needs, makes timely clinical decisions and orders labs and prescriptions for HCV, PrEP, and other conditions as needed.
• Works with Outreach Workers to integrate (HIV/HCV/SUD/SMI) screening protocol into workflow.
• Makes various shifts, including nights and weekends, as operational demands require.

Requirements

• Experience providing basic primary care, coordinating care with other primary care sites as applicable.
• Ability to provide care in a mobile setting and telehealth.
• Experience treating infectious diseases (HCV, STIs) and prescribing PrEP, PEP, and doxyPEP.
• Experience providing vaccinations (e.g., for viral hepatitis [A/B], influenza, HPV, others as needed) to at-risk populations.
• Knowledge of medical care for target population of people who use drugs, homeless patients, and those with serious mental illness.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree from an accredited Advanced Nurse Practitioner program or graduation from a Physician Assistant (PA) Training Program accredited by the American Medical Association Council on Medical Education.
• CT APRN license (or eligible) with ANA certification OR CT PA license (or eligible).
• Prescriptive privileges (or eligible) in the State of Connecticut, federal DEA license and CT DCP license for prescription of controlled substances.

Skills

• Experience providing basic primary care, ability to coordinate care with other primary care sites as applicable.
• Ability to provide care in a mobile setting and telehealth.
• Experience treating infectious diseases (HCV, STIs) and prescribing PrEP, PEP, and doxyPEP.
• Experience providing vaccinations (e.g., for viral hepatitis [A/B], influenza, HPV, others as needed) to at-risk populations.
• Knowledge of medical care for target population of people who use drugs, homeless patients, and those with serious mental illness.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$92,000.00 - $146,750.00

Schedule

Full time.