Description

You will provide frontline care to homeless and vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County as part of Akido's Street Medicine team, combining hands-on care with AI-powered tools. You'll manage acute, chronic, and preventative care in field-based settings, working closely with a multidisciplinary team to design care plans and improve health outcomes.

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.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish strongly preferred.
• 1+ years of experience with and comfort working with CalAIM populations of focus.
• Active, unrestricted California Nurse Practitioner Certificate by the time of hire.
• Nurse Practitioner Furnishing Number (California).
• Nurse Practitioner National Certificate.
• Registered Nurse License (California).

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.