Summer in Alaska

Job description

Job Description

Arc Health is seeking highly experienced, flexible and independent FNPs to practice at the top of their license to serve in northern Alaska above the Arctic Circle for 4-6 weeks at a time for multiple assignments throughout the year. This position is not for the faint at heart. This is a tough but highly rewarding position helping patients who might not otherwise get direct care. Ideal candidates must be:
Comfortable with solo staffing and working independently in urgent and emergency situations as well as in an office for primary care
Clinically capable, resourceful, adaptable, industrious, and personally willing to be flexible, and interested in making a long-term commitment to serving this rural community.
Compassionate, mission-driven social medicine practitioners
Interested in joining a dynamic and potentially disruptive social healthcare enterprise
Practice Description

Schedule: 4-6 weeks at a time spent in one remote village, on an ongoing basis. May spend ~1 week in the town of Kotzebue before or after village work. Travel to village is by fixed-wing aircraft only.
Support staff (in some locations): 1-2 Community Health Aides (trained and certified), receptionist, dental health aide
EMR: Cerner
Further details: Housing and travel provided. Providers in village clinics operate independently but can work in tandem with physicians assigned to the village who work in Kotzebue. Radio allows for prompt communication and there are emergency services (medivac) available for urgent needs.

About the location
This position is within a highly interconnected healthcare network for Alaska Natives and will work in tandem with staff physicians (based in Kotzebue) and Community Health Aides who staff the village clinics.
Remote community populations range in size from 117 to 890 and you may be the only one in the clinic at any given time.

• Solo village Coverage
• 4 -6 week assignments
• Low patient volume