Family Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant at Huntsville Hospital Urgent Care - PRN

Family Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant – Huntsville Hospital Urgent Care (PRN)

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Job Summary

As a Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant at Huntsville Hospital Urgent Care, you will play a crucial role in providing exceptional medical care to patients of all ages with a wide variety of acute and chronic medical conditions. Working collaboratively with a team of healthcare professionals, you will diagnose, treat, and educate patients while ensuring the highest standard of care and service.

• Provide exemplary customer service to patients, visitors, and coworkers.
• Provide convenient, friendly patient care to all who come through our door seeking health related services.
• Provide leadership, direction, and assistance during emergencies while maintaining a comforting and reassuring affect for patients.
• Work in a fast paced and high stress environment, including long and variable hours, changing locations, and continuous and frequent contact with others.
• Perform medical assessment, treatment, management and follow up of clinic patients including primary care, urgent care, occupational health, DOT physicals and workers compensation.
• Perform medical procedures including laceration repairs, nail removal, pap tests, injections, splinting and abscess incision and drainage.
• Establish and monitor a medically appropriate level of care for clinic patients.
• Oversee, direct and support on site laboratory, x-rays, injections and collections for direct access services, if applicable.
• Maintain clinical core competency.
• Work with Center Leadership and other staff to ensure operations are consistent with medical policy and professional standards.
• Cooperate and participate in the development, implementation and revision of policies affecting medical practice, quality of care and patient satisfaction.
• Participate in and assist with in-service and continuing education programs for physicians, nurses and other personnel employed by or associated with the company.
• Recommend potential means of growth and development for new and/or existing services within the Center.
• Assure compliance with licensing, certification and accrediting bodies.
• Participate in development and presentation of education programs for staff.
• Represent the company and the clinic as reasonably required at internal and external meetings or events.
• Provide guidance to other medical staff (e.g., physician assistants, nurse practitioners and medical assistants) to ensure quality professional services and patient satisfaction.

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
• Active state license as an APRN or Physician Assistant.
• Current Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant (PA-C) Board Certification.
• Current DEA license or eligibility to obtain upon hire.
• Current DOT certification or willingness to obtain upon hire.
• Current BLS certification.

Our full-time team members work a rotating 36-40 hour/week schedule, consisting of 12-hour weekday shifts and every-other weekend. PRN (per diem) team members are scheduled on an as-needed basis.

Full-time benefits include:

• Competitive Salary
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Options
• Retirement savings plans
• Continuing Education Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off
• And more!

PRN benefits include:

• 401K plan with company contribution
• No-Cost Office Visits and generous discounts on some billable services
• Malpractice Coverage
• Access to Up To Date , a clinical resource tool

Huntsville Hospital Urgent Care, with nine locations in Alabama, is an affiliate of Urgent Team, one of the largest independent operators of urgent and family care centers in the Southeast. The Urgent Team Family of Centers provides quality and affordable family healthcare at more than 80 locations under eight brands.

Huntsville Hospital Urgent Care’s convenient walk‑in centers provide a range of healthcare services including treatments for injuries and illnesses, occupational health and wellness care. The centers are open seven days a week:
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Additionally, all Huntsville Hospital Urgent Care centers are Accredited Care Centers – a designation from the Urgent Care Association which recognizes the company’s commitment to safety, quality, and scope of services.