APRN​/NP​/PA

Department: Clinical
Pay Range: $95,000–$120,000
Location: Onsite—Hammond, Indiana
Employment: Full-time or part-time

TCA Health is a Federally Qualified Health Center that has provided accessible, innovative, and high-quality primary care, dental, behavioral health, and supportive services to underserved communities for more than 50 years. Our culture reflects a strong commitment to service, clinical excellence, and community health.

Compassion: We are kind, considerate, and caring.

Accountability: We take ownership of each person’s experience.

Respect: We treat every person with dignity.

Excellence: We seek the highest level of performance in everything we do.

Service: We deliver high-quality services and access to care that uplift our communities.

The Advanced Practice Provider provides comprehensive, patient-centered primary care within the provider’s education, training, licensure, and approved scope of practice. Responsibilities include assessment, diagnosis, treatment, preventive care, chronic disease management, patient education, and care coordination.

The provider practices in accordance with Indiana law, applicable professional standards, organizational policies, and any required collaborative practice agreement.

Obtain and document comprehensive patient histories and perform physical examinations.

Diagnose and manage acute and chronic medical conditions.

Develop, implement, and evaluate individualized treatment plans.

Order, perform, and interpret appropriate laboratory and diagnostic studies.

Prescribe medications and treatments within applicable Indiana authority.

Provide preventive care, screenings, immunizations, and chronic disease management.

Educate patients regarding diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, and healthy behaviors.

Coordinate referrals and collaborate with physicians, nurses, behavioral health professionals, and other members of the care team.

Provide telehealth services when clinically appropriate.

Maintain timely, accurate, and complete documentation in the electronic health record.

Participate in quality-improvement, peer-review, clinical department, and staff meetings.

Follow TCA Health policies, clinical guidelines, productivity expectations, and applicable regulatory requirements.

Current, unrestricted Indiana RN license or qualifying multistate compact RN license.

Current Indiana APRN prescriptive-authority license, when required.

Master’s or doctoral degree from an accredited nurse practitioner program.

Current national board certification in an appropriate primary-care specialty.

Current Indiana Controlled Substances Registration and DEA registration, if prescribing controlled substances.

Graduation from an accredited physician assistant program.

Current NCCPA certification.

Current Indiana Controlled Substances Registration and DEA registration, if prescribing controlled substances.

Current BLS certification.

Eligible for credentialing and enrollment with Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans.

Primary-care or community-health experience preferred.

Experience serving medically underserved populations strongly preferred.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States without sponsorship.

Eligible employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that may include:

Medical insurance with four plan options

Dental insurance with two plan options

Vision insurance

Company-paid long-term disability

Company-paid life and AD&D insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off and paid holidays

Continuing medical education reimbursement and paid CME days

Professional liability insurance

Potential eligibility for NHSC Loan Repayment

Voluntary Aflac benefits through payroll deduction