Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties provides essential reproductive health care, nutrition services, and education programs to more than 160,000 local women and men, regardless of their personal circumstances or ability to pay. We’ve been building healthy communities since 1965 with the most sophisticated instrument in medicine: accurate information that can help people make the best decisions about their health.

We believe that health care is a basic human right and that prevention is the best medicine, which is why 93% of our services are preventive, including life-saving cancer screenings, well-woman exams, education programs, STD prevention and treatment, family planning, WIC nutritional services, prenatal care, and more.

Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties is an affiliate of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. We are a self-governing, nonprofit organization

Planned Parenthood offers an attractive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and eligible dependents, life insurance, long term disability, and 401(k) with a generous match. We also offer very competitive vacation, sick and holiday benefits. Some positions allow for a 4/10 work week schedule.

PPOSBC has a full-time position to provide quality patient care including exams, treatment, education and counseling for patients in accordance with agency protocols. Ability to work cooperatively within a team, relate to diverse communities and be capable of adjusting to patient flow per agency guidelines. Highly experienced in women's health care preferred. Availability to work flexible hours, as required, including evenings and weekends.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Adhere to agency’s policies, procedures and protocols. This may include successfully completing agency, regional and/or state certification requirements.
• Adhere to affiliate goals and prolicies on professionalism, wait time in-clinic and on the system for addressing client complaints.
• Participate in health center efforts to achieve established goals for productivity.
• Participate in health center/affiliate efforts to achieve established revenue cycle goals.
• Perform physical and gynecological examinations for female patients including review of medical history, screening for abnormalities, and performance and interpretation and/or ordering of laboratory tests.
• Provide contraceptives.
• Abortion referral and counseling.
• Provide abortion services.
• Perform genito-urinary exams of male patients in relation to testing and treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections.
• Document patient data accurately and completely in the medical record.
• Evaluate and treat medical problems, ensuring follow-up and appropriate referrals as necessary.
• Supervise follow-up procedures for abnormal laboratory results.
• Dispense prescription medications under standing order.
  
• Perform pelvic exams to estimate length of pregnancy.
• Educate and counsel patients in reproductive health issues.
  
• Participate in a team approach to patient care, and deliver care in a professional, confidential, and expeditious manner.
• Manage emergency situations as they arise in the center, and consult with Medical Doctor as necessary.
• If trained and utilized by manager to do so, provide prenatal services, IUD, Norplant and Implanon, insertions and removals, and colposcopy and cryotherapy treatment.
  
• Once trained, care for abortion (surgical and medical) patients, including ultrasounds and post-operative care.
  
• Orient new clinicians as requested.
• Participate in a regularly scheduled peer review process, as required.
  
• Attend medical meetings, as required.
  
• Meet productivity goals of the center.

This person may assist and train with venipuncture and/or other triaging responsibilities as needed, may participate in Clinic Assistant trainings, may assist with cleaning and maintenance of technical equipment (i.e. microscopes), and may be deployed to other sites in case of low volume or provider need including San Bernardino County locations. If job duties require working abortion services, additional duties to include on call rotation during non-clinical hours.

• Evenings and Weekends (Saturday & Sunday) required.
• CA NP, PA or CNM licensure required.
  
• Reproductive health care, family planning and surgical services preferred.
  
• New Grads welcome!