Advanced Practice Provider (Full or Part-Time)

Advanced Practice Provider

Community Health Centers, Inc. has been dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable primary care and preventive services since 1979. We are looking for a full-time Advanced Practice Provider to join our team.

Position Summary: The Advanced Practice Provider delivers primary care to patients in an outpatient setting based on developed clinical protocols and educational training. Primary health care consists of a broad range of health care services including the following:

• Promotion and maintenance of health that includes counseling and patient education
• Assessment of the health status of individuals and families by gathering health history, physical examination, diagnostic evaluations and management of health and developmental problems
• Management of acute and chronic illness in patients and the provision of selected intervention according to established standards of health care
• Consultation, collaboration and referral to supervising physician(s), other health care professionals, and community resources when appropriate

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is responsible to the Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer of CHC and receives direct and indirect supervision from the physician assigned this responsibility. The APP must be capable of carrying out specific functions involving primary patient care in a clinic setting. Duties also include providing on-call telephone coverage after clinic hours in addition to occasional weekend clinic coverage.

Site with Opening: Community Health Centers, Inc. West Valley City, UT

Hiring Organization: Community Health Centers, Inc.

Practice Highlights: The mission of Community Health Centers, Inc. is to provide high-quality, patient-centered primary care services for all members of our community.

Qualifications & Education Requirements:

• Physician Assistant: Must be a graduate of an accredited program who must be nationally certified within one year of completion of the program, maintaining national recertification every six years, and is licensed in the State of Utah in accordance with the Physician Assistant Practice Act.
• Family Nurse Practitioner: Is a Master's/Bachelor's prepared registered nurse who has completed an accredited nurse practitioner program and is licensed to practice in the State of Utah. Certification by the American Nurses' Association is also required. A non-certified FNP would be expected to obtain certification within 18 months of the date of hire. The nurse practitioner in collaboration with a supervising physician may be granted prescriptive privileges in accordance with The Nurse Practitioner Prescriptive Practice Act of 1988.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic Spanish language preferred
• Experience working in health care