Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant; Part-Time

Primary Care Providers:
Health Advocates Delivering Patient-Centered Care

La Clínica de La Raza is a community-based health center committed to providing culturally appropriate, high-quality, and accessible health care to diverse communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. Over 40 years, we have advocated for and created a health home for those denied access to care, addressing economic and social factors that affect health. With 35 sites across Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties, we welcome 90,000+ individuals and coordinate services to improve and maintain their health and well‑being.

As an NP/PA, you will provide primary care in an outpatient setting to a resilient, ethnically diverse, and medically complex patient population. We support providers through mentorship, quality initiatives, preceptorships, and a Nurse Practitioner incubator program. Our team shares ownership of tasks to improve efficiency, offers educational leave plus stipend, license reimbursement, FTCA malpractice coverage, flexible schedules, and is a National Health Service Corps approved site for tax‑free loan repayment.

• Provide medical triage, care management, patient education, and counseling to a panel of patients.
• Refer to specialty providers and follow up to ensure patients’ bio‑psychosocial needs are met.
• Deliver evidence‑based care to improve outcomes, patient experience, and efficient resource use.
• Perform routine, acute, urgent, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative medical care and determine appropriate regimens.
• Participate in a cross‑functional team providing preventive primary care, chronic illness care, urgent care, and telephone triage.
• Prescribe medications, treatments, therapies, and order diagnostic or clinical tests.

• Deliver culturally humble well‑ and chronic disease care to patients of all ages.
• Adapt to patients’ needs by participating in evening and Saturday rotation clinics.
• Develop a positive rapport with patients and families to foster relationships.
• Conduct in‑home assessments of patients as appropriate.

• Consult on assessment, management, and treatment of complex cases, chart review, co‑signing, and case conferences.
• Collaborate with physicians on case management per protocol.
• Suggest improvements for clinic flow, scheduling, and service delivery; work professionally with interdisciplinary staff.
• Supervise medical assistants by providing patient consultation as needed.

• Experience with Electronic Health Record programs such as Next Gen or Epic.
• High interpersonal competence with staff and patients; thorough knowledge of evidence‑based care.
• Cultural competence working in diverse/low‑income communities.
• Familiarity with Electronic Panel Management.

• Courteous and effective management of complex patient profiles; maintain good staff relationships.
• Physical stamina for heavy lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Independent work, exercise good judgment, communicate orally and in writing, quickly and accurately with minimal supervision.
• Work under pressure within an interdisciplinary team.
• Flexibility and adaptability to change.
• Support diversity, equity, and inclusion across cultures.
• Maintain accurate, clear patient records.
• Strong time‑management and evidence‑based approaches to care.
• English/Spanish proficiency preferred but not required.

• Current BLS (Basic Life Support) Certificate (30‑day grace period from hire date).
• Board certification required; if absent, must be achieved within 6 months of employment.
• Valid California license and DEA registration.
• NP:
  Current license from the California Board of Registered Nursing, national certification from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or another body, and a certified Nurse Practitioner Program completion with at least 2 years of clinical experience.
• PA:
  Current license from the California Physician Assistant Committee, graduation from an approved primary health care program as attested by the American Medical Association, successful completion of a certification exam administered by the Bureau of Medical Quality Assurance, and at least 2 years of full‑time clinical experience after practicum focusing on family medicine or geriatrics.

Salary: $66.25‑$78.75 DOE