Family Nurse Practitioner
Scope of Work
SAAF’s Family Nurse Practitioner will be part of SAAF’s strategic growth into clinical services, creating the region’s first health center focused on LGBTQ+ affirming care and all marginalized populations. This position will begin at 0.625 FTE at 25 hours/week and is benefits eligible. There may be the ability to increase to a full 1.0 FTE based on availability, patient volume, and potential clinic growth. This is an
exempt position.
The SAAF Board of Directors recently approved a strategic plan that includes providing direct clinical services to our growing community. These services will be provided free of charge, allowing us to reinvent the wheel away from a fee-for-service model of care to an innovative service line that can integrate with the community, with SAAF’s current services to over 2000 clients, and truly meet community needs.
Services will target SAAF’s current clients, including those living with HIV and those utilizing SAAF’s prevention / testing / PrEP navigation services and youth services; and will focus on providing primary care to all marginalized members of the community, LGBTQ+ members of our community, and those who have historically been under-served by our health care infrastructure.
Functional Responsibilities
- Chronic care visits
- Prevention / well visits / pap smears
- PrEP / PEP (training can be provided if experience limited)
- Gender affirming care (training can be provided if experience limited)
- Acute care for established patients
- Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Use (Suboxone)
- Curative Hepatitis C treatment
- Reports to the Director of Clinical and Prevention Services
Minimum Qualifications
- Unencumbered AZ license or AZ-eligible for licensure in Advanced Practice Nursing; current prescribing privileges including a DEA license for controlled substances.
- Current CPR / BLS
- Three years substantive experience providing full spectrum primary care services to peds and adults, and ability to practice unsupervised/ independently.
- Substantive experience and comfort providing care for and serving the LGBTQ+ community and marginalized populations.
- Comfortable with providing care and serving communities of color, low-income communities
including those experiencing homelessness, communities with IVDU, undocumented communities, etc., and in providing harm reduction services. - Willingness to work some evenings/nights and weekends each month based on SAAF programs and community outreach.
Preferred Qualifications
- Able to conduct full patient history and physical in Spanish.
- Flexibility and willingness to innovate- SAAF Health does not see patients every 15 minutes, we are striving to provide time needed for providers to care holistically for patients.
- Willingness to work after hours if needed to help support those that utilize the syringe access program.
- Knowledge of medication-assisted treatment for substance use.
Compensation
0.625 FTE Position will start at 25hrs/week: $58,181.12 – $74,181.25
1.0 FTE is possible at later date with potential salary: $93,090.00 – $118,690.00
Benefits
1.0 FTE Employee receives the benefits listed below. As 0.625 FTE Employee, the specific number of days off, and which hours and days, are to be determined on the schedule worked.
Eleven (11) paid holidays, two (2) half day paid holidays, one (1) paid floating holiday, twenty (20) days of paid vacation per year to start, in addition to 40 hours of sick leave. Health, dental, vision, and life insurance; 401(k) with matching, long-term and short-term disability insurance. Additional optional plans include Life Insurance, Pet Services Discount Plan, Equitable plans (Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance and Hospital Confinement Insurance). Access to SAAF Health Clinic on-site for primary care needs.
To Apply
Submit a letter of interest and resume with dates of employment to:
Yvette Bass, Recruiting and Retention
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
375 S. Euclid Ave.
Tucson, AZ, 85719
or email hr@saaf.org, or fill out the form below.
Affirmative Action
The Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability.
People who have used drugs, have performed sex work, people of color, women, members of the LGBTQ+ communities, those who have experienced housing insecurity, people who have received harm reduction services, and people living with HIV/AIDS and/or hepatitis C are strongly encouraged to apply.
Physical Requirements
This job is a Sedentary Work position, as defined by the Social Security Administration, CFR. CFR § 404.1567.
Physical exertion requirements: (a) Sedentary work. Sedentary work involves lifting no more than 10 pounds at a time and occasionally lifting or carrying articles like docket files, ledgers, and small tools. Although a sedentary job is defined as one which involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out job duties. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required occasionally and other sedentary criteria are met.
Disclaimer
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; an employee will also perform other reasonably related job responsibilities as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required. Management reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment. Management reserves the right to change job descriptions, job duties, functions, and requirements.