Advanced Practice Provider

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 Role

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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. 

Benefits 

• Competitive salary 

• Generous PTO  

• Five dedicated CME days per year 

• Annual CME budget of $5000/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 

Minimum Requirements 

• MD or DO licensure in Connecticut 

• Board certification in MedPeds, 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 ***enter non-discrimination here 

• Ability to maintain a trauma-informed space. 

Preferred Requirements 

• 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)