LPN Nurse

The REACH Project, Inc is a non-profit organization that provides low-threshold, harm reduction-oriented healthcare to all who typically face stigma in the current healthcare system.

Position Goals and Role:
● This is a full-time position at REACH Medical, PLLC.
● The LPN role ensures that all patients receive the highest quality health care in a harm reduction setting.
● REACH aims to consistently offer a productive, professional, friendly, stigma-free work environment for staff and clinical providers.

General duties:
● Responsible to ensure patients are scheduled for the appropriate visit type and seeing all patients prior to their provider
● Obtain vitals, and proper patient history, including managing the nursing phone line for both Primary Care and Medication Management.
● Other duties include, but are not limited to:

• Entering scripts to be signed by providers
• Ordering medical supplies
• Maintaining related inventories on vaccinations and related supplies
• Answer phones
• Obtaining medication prior authorizations
• Checking prescription monitoring system
• Blood draws
• Entering accurate information into the electronic medical record system

A typical schedule will start at 9:00 am some days and extend into evenings on others.
Qualifications include:
● Currently valid NYS professional license
● Experience with electronic medical record system and related workflow processes
● Schedule flexibility
● Strong interpersonal, with a commitment to provide respectful, culturally-competent communication, skills that match the needs of our target population(s)
● Ability to demonstrate a commitment to providing care to underserved populations consistent with REACH Medical’s reduction-based, trauma-informed, low threshold care philosophy.

REACH is dedicated to health equity. We are committed to hiring and developing well-qualified staff who reflect the racial, ethnic, social and cultural diversity of the people we wish to serve. People of color, people with LGBTQ+ identities, and people with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.

The REACH Project Inc. is a nonprofit organization with the belief that all individuals deserve respectful, equitable, access to compassionate healthcare in a setting where they will not be stigmatized or judged based on drug use, homelessness, or any other issue that may cause less than adequate care in today's healthcare environment.

The REACH Project owns and operates the first low threshold, harm reduction medical practice in Ithaca, NY