Advanced Practice Provider

Advanced Practice Provider

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Anchor Health is Connecticut’s leading health center for the LGBTQ+ community. We deliver high-quality, evidence-based, gender-affirming, and trauma-informed medical care to a diverse patient population across the state. Our interdisciplinary model integrates primary care, HIV medicine, sexual health, behavioral health, pharmacy, and supportive services to advance health equity for LGBTQ+ people.

Due to continued growth, we are seeking a Primary Care Advanced Practice Provider (APRN or PA) to join our clinical team.

The Primary Care APP provides comprehensive, LGBTQ-competent primary care across the lifespan (for FNPs), including gender-affirming medicine, HIV prevention and treatment, sexual health services, and evidence-based preventive care. APPs practice at the top of their license within a highly supportive clinical environment, with close collaboration from physician colleagues, pharmacists, and senior APP clinical leads in Gender-Affirming Care and HIV Medicine.

• Provide excellent, evidence-based, trauma-informed primary care, gender-affirming care, HIV prevention/treatment, sexual health and urgent care to a diverse patient population through routine follow-up visits, annual physical exams, urgent/sick visits, pre-operative clearance visits, pelvic exams, office‑based procedures and telehealth visits.
• Screens and address preventive health and behavioral health needs, including substance use, social determinants of health, and sexual health.
• Manage patient care, including ordering diagnostic testing, medications, referrals, InBasket messages and other interventions.
• Provide education to patients and their care partners.
• Maintain accurate records by closing charts within 7 days.
• Participate in regular staff meetings, clinician meetings, and community outreach events.
• Provides supervision, consultation, and clinical support to RNs, and other clinical staff and trainees as needed.
• Participate in peer review, case conferences, and quality improvement initiatives.

• Competitive salary
• Generous PTO
• Five dedicated CME days per year
• Annual CME budget of $5,000/year
• Retirement 403(b) plan with 4% employer match that is vested right away
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility
• License and board certification fee reimbursement

• MD or DO licensure in Connecticut
• Board certification in Med Peds, family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine and/or OB/Gyn
• BLS certification
• Experience working with and awareness of needs specific to the LGBTQ community.
• Ability to maintain work effectively and respectfully with colleagues, patients, vendors and community partners regardless of their background.
• Ability to maintain a trauma-informed space.

• Spanish language fluency
• One year experience providing gender-affirming medical care ‑OR‑ 1-year experience providing STI treatment and HIV prevention/treatment services
• Experience treating substance use disorders
• AAHIVS Certification
• WPATH Certification
• Experience with Testopel, Nexplanon and/or Supprelin insertion and removal
• Basic procedural skills including I&D, suturing and trauma-informed pelvic exams
• IUD insertion experience
• POCUS (point-of-care ultrasound) experience
• One year of experience using Epic (electronic health record)

Mid‑Senior level

Full-time

Health Care Provider