Nurse Practitioner | Kern Street Medicine
About The Position
Akido is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join its Street Medicine team in Kern County. This role involves redefining healthcare delivery for vulnerable populations, combining hands-on care with AI-driven tools. The position is ideal for a Nurse Practitioner who values compassion, thrives in dynamic environments, and aims to make a significant impact outside traditional healthcare settings. Candidates with experience or interest in public health, home care, social work, or outpatient experience with vulnerable populations are particularly encouraged to apply. This is an in-person position.
Requirements
- Comfortable providing direct care in outdoor, field-based settings, under dynamic and unpredictable conditions.
- Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills to understand and adjust effectively to patients' needs and the surrounding community, while working collaboratively with members of the health care team, and the street-medicine professional network.
- Ability to travel up to 75% of work time: Valid CA Driver's License, reliable and insured vehicle
- Ability to maintain independent clinical judgement within scope of practice and regulations, while recognizing when to involve a physician.
- Ability to lead, prioritize and analyze clinical workflows, objectives and team goals.
- Ability to direct and coordinate clinical support staff
- Active, unrestricted California Nurse Practitioner Certificate by the time of hire
- Nurse Practitioner Furnishing Number (California)
- Nurse Practitioner National Certificate
- Registered Nurse License (California)
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual in English and Spanish strongly preferred
- 1+ years of experience with and comfort working with CalAIM populations of focus (people experiencing homelessness, adults with SMI/SUD, adults transitioning from incarceration, adults with complex medical needs).
Responsibilities
- Provide frontline care to patients experiencing homelessness, behavioral health challenges, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and complex chronic conditions, including patients transitioning from incarceration.
- Manage diverse patient panels by delivering acute, chronic and preventative care directly in the field.
- Conduct patient assessment, gather histories, perform physical exams, order and interpret diagnostics, and prescribe treatment under physician supervision.
- Report to the supervising physician, working closely to address atypical and complex patient cases, while exercising independent judgement within state regulations and scope of practice.
- Design and implement care plans that support patients as they work toward stability and improved health outcomes.
- Collaborate daily with multidisciplinary team – physician, nurses, social workers, outreach staff to prioritize and coordinate care.
- Document all encounters to maintain accurate, up-to-date records for continuity of care.
- Other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- $15,000 signing bonus with 2 year commitment
- Up to $5,000 of relocation costs covered
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
