Founded in 1980, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC) is a missionâdriven, multiâsite nonprofit serving residents across the Merrimack Valley. With a staff of over 700, GLFHC is dedicated to providing highâquality, compassionate, and accessible patient care. Our CommunityâBased Services focus on meeting individuals where they are through evidenceâbased, personâcentered approaches that reduce harm, improve health outcomes, and connect people to supports without judgment or unnecessary barriers. Through our programs, we provide counseling, treatment referrals, immunizations, and harm reduction services, including syringe access and Narcan education.
GLFHC is currently seeking a Mobile Health Unit Driver / Patient Service Rep. The function of the Mobile Health Unit (MHU) Driver / Patient Service Rep is to safely operate and drive GLFHC MHU to and from assigned destinations within the Merrimack Valley as determined by the Mobile Health Unit Manager. This position also provides an array of onsite and community (mobile) based harm reduction and screening services including but not limited to street and venue based outreach, prevention counseling, overdose education and prevention, Narcan enrollment and distribution and Syringe Services to priority population members defined by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Office of HIV/AIDS (MDPH, OHA), as those at high risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) and/or viral Hepatitis (MSM), active substance users, injection drug users (IDUs), people living with HIV/AIDS and/or Hepatitis C, sex workers and other high risk populations.
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GLFHC offers a great working environment, comprehensive benefit package, growth opportunities and tuition reimbursement.
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center with clinical sites in located in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts, serves over 60,000 unique patients from Lawrence and the surrounding communities of Methuen, Andover, North Andover and Haverhill. It is the second-largest Federally Qualified Health Center in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Since 1980, GLFHC has been fulfilling its mission “to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the Merrimack Valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond to the needs of a culturally diverse population.”
GLFHC is also home to the nationally-recognized Lawrence Family Medicine Residency (LFMR) program, the first family medicine residency program of its kind in the United States. Solely owned and operated as an academic medical residency by the health center, LFMR has graduated close to 200 primary care physicians. The majority of LFMR graduates have either stayed at the health center or have chosen to stay working in low-income, underserved communities in Massachusetts and across the country. In FY2020, LFMR will be home to 42 residents who participate in one of the only 4-year programs in the country as part of a demonstration project conducted by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.