Primary Care Nurse - GREATER SEACOAST COMMUNITY HEALTH

Join Our Team as a Primary Care Nurse and Transform Lives!

Are you ready to make a real impact every day? As a Primary Care Nurse, you'll be at the heart of a dynamic, supportive team dedicated to providing patient-centered care. You'll work alongside primary care providers, medical assistants, and multidisciplinary departments to deliver exceptional healthcare services. From triaging acute illnesses to educating patients and managing care transitions, your role will be diverse, fulfilling, and essential.

At Greater Seacoast Community Health, you'll thrive in an environment that values your contributions and fosters professional growth. Our multidisciplinary team, including experts in medical, dental, and behavioral health care as well as social and family workers, collaborates to address the comprehensive needs of our patients. We focus first on the individual plan of care through preventative, primary, and specialty services; and from a population health perspective, address health disparities; considering social determinants of health; providing health education; supporting self-care and chronic disease management; and facilitating smooth transitions of care. Our services focus on maximizing quality health outcomes through collaboration with individuals, families, caregivers, communities, and diverse populations across the lifespan. Our teams are committed solely on delivering innovative, compassionate, integrated health services and support that are accessible to all in our community, regardless of ability to pay. Your days will be varied and engaging, offering ample opportunities to advance your career and take on new challenges. We know your life will be enriched providing everyone in our community an opportunity to live a long and healthy life. Integrity, Respect, Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration – the strength of Greater Seacoast Community Health.

Salary Range: $34.00 - $39.25 Based on experience level

The GSCH Primary Care Nurse Scope of Practice highlights the unique practice within this nursing specialty.

Nurses practice patient-centered care. Their actions provide protection, health promotion, and optimization of health, prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through a compassionate presence.

Use nurse knowledge, skills, clinical judgment and critical thinking to determine appropriate actions for a wide variety of patient conditions across the lifespan.

Make autonomous nursing care decisions at the point of care, determine the best nursing care plan for the patient, manage acute and chronic conditions, and evaluate patient response.

Provide nursing interventions that support optimum patient outcomes such as patient education, care coordination, case management and population health. .

Advocates and mobilizes resources within our interdisciplinary team and within the community, to provide safe, high-quality patient care.

Provide input and participate in decision-making, quality initiatives, risk management initiatives that supports our continuous efforts to provide the best care to our patients and reduce health disparities.

Delivering competent care is a team effort. Nurses work alongside medical assistants. They delegate, oversee, provide support and education and role model professionalism.

Communication and problem-solving between team members is essential to delivering quality patient care.

Qualifications:

• Current New Hampshire Nursing License
• Experience in primary care and ambulatory health care preferred
• Current BLS certification
• 2-3 years in primary care

Ideal Candidate Traits:

• Ability to work harmoniously with coworkers and patients
• Experience with diverse and vulnerable populations
• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Strong organizational, clinical, and assessment skills
• Compassionate and nonjudgmental attitude

Apply now to be part of a team that’s dedicated to making a difference in the lives of others, one patient at a time!

Work Location(s):

Families First Portsmouth NH

Hours Per Week: 40 (8:00am – 5:00pm)

Days: Monday – Friday

Job Status: Full-Time, Hourly (Non-Exempt)

Eligible for Benefits: Yes

This position is eligible for a one-time sign-on bonus of up to $5,000.00.

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical and dental insurance with an agency subsidy. One of the GSCH health insurance plans has a no-premium option for employee-only coverage.

GSCH offers a 401(k) plan with an employer match, employer-paid group term life insurance, and short-term disability coverage.

Voluntary benefits include vision, long-term disability coverage, Flexible Spending Account, and access to local discounts.

GSCH offers earned time accrual (15 days in your first year [pro-rated by FTE]), plus seven (7) paid holidays. Eligibility starts at 24 hours/week, with full benefits offered at 32 hours/week and above.

About Us

Greater Seacoast Community Health’s mission is to deliver innovative, compassionate, integrated health services and support that are accessible to all in our community, regardless of ability to pay.

The Greater Seacoast Community Health network includes Families First Health & Support Center in Portsmouth, Goodwin Community Health in Somersworth, and Lilac City Pediatrics at both locations. Strafford County Public Health Network and WIC Nutrition Program are also affiliated with Greater Seacoast.

Greater Seacoast Community Health is a network of community health centers providing primary care, pediatrics, dental care, prenatal care, behavioral health counseling, substance use disorder treatment, mobile health services, WIC, social work services, a pharmacy, parenting classes, playgroups, and home visiting.

We believe everyone should be empowered to maximize health and well-being and strive to make our array of programs and health services integrated, high quality, affordable, recovery friendly, trauma informed, inclusive, and easy to access.

As not-for-profit community health centers and family resource centers serving the Greater Seacoast region of New Hampshire and southern Maine, our services are for everyone — infants to seniors, single people and families, insured or uninsured, all income levels. Learn more at GetCommunityHealth.org.

Greater Seacoast Community Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants without regard to race, color, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by state, federal, or local law. Qualified Veterans are encouraged to apply.