Residency Program Director (NP/PA)

About the role

Petaluma Health Center is recruiting a Residency Program Clinical Director to lead its Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant residency program. The Director leads and supervises faculty who teach and precept residents, runs resident selection and evaluation, curricular evaluation and development, and integrates the program into the health center's mission. The role is grant-funded and supports the program during the applicable grant cycle; continued employment depends on funding, program needs and the health center's discretion.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, implement, coordinate and evaluate the residency program, including program guidelines, didactics and resident schedules
• Provide direct clinical teaching and supervise precepting, including training, evaluation and feedback for preceptors
• Help establish clinical rotations within the health center and with outside agencies, and coordinate regular resident evaluations
• Maintain program accreditation, create the annual budget, and support grant-funded operations, reporting and compliance
• Manage relationships with collaborating academic institutions
• Clinically, manage a panel of primary care patients, order diagnostics, follow scope-of-practice guidelines and obtain supervising physician consultation when needed
• Participate in medical staff meetings, committees and quality improvement initiatives, and help maintain patient satisfaction
• Keep licenses current (California medical license, DEA registration, CME, CPR) and give Human Resources credentials before they expire
• Manager duties include assisting the CMO and leadership with strategic planning, using audit results to drive improvements, and reviewing residency faculty performance

Required profile

• Nationally accredited Nurse Practitioner degree
• At least five years of primary care experience in a family practice setting
• One year of management experience highly desirable
• Previous teaching experience or strong interest in teaching; faculty development fellowship highly desirable
• Experience in an FQHC or community medicine highly desirable

Required skills

• Current California FNP license and current CA RN license
• Federal DEA registration within 30 days of employment
• Current Basic Life Support certification and ongoing CME
• Knowledge of accreditation, quality and safety standards and of medical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment