Make your move to Alaska! Experience the midnight sun in the summer, a front-row seat to the northern lights in the winter, and the opportunity to advance your career as you broaden your scope of practice.    

Foundation Health Partners is actively recruiting an ambitious Nurse Practitioner to join our teams at both the Pain Clinic and the Controlled Substance Clinic.

The Opportunity:

This position will offer support for two clinics that work interdependently to ensure that patients are being provided with safe and effective pain relief treatments. This position will be responsible for managing an assortment of controlled substances and ensuring that they are being dosed appropriately and used safely. Tackle new challenges as you sort through complex healthcare and provide a full range of patient services. As part of a rural health system, this will be an opportunity to independently manage aspects of care that might not be possible in larger settings, allowing you to round out your skills and expand your breadth of experience.

Our Pain Treatment Clinic provides the latest outpatient treatments for various pain-related symptoms. Our newly renovated outpatient procedure suite has state-of-the-art equipment which allows us to treat a full range of patients who suffer from cancer-related pain to complex regional pain and anything in between. As part of a larger health system, we benefit from hospital resources and services, including fluoroscopically guided injections, neurostimulation implantation technologies, and referrals to physical therapy and surgical and behavioral health services

Our Controlled Substance Clinic is responsible for managing our organization’s controlled substance policy and procedures and monitoring patients who are prescribed a controlled substance. This position will serve as the clinic’s expert on up-to-date prescribing policies and work with physicians to help mange this unique patient population.

• Compensation:  Starting at a base of $133,328, compensation can be further adjusted based on experience. Additional opportunity to increase earnings through productivity. $40k sign-on bonus.
• Schedule: M-F 40 hours per week. 7 weeks ATO, 2 weeks CME. 
• Team: This will be an opportunity to manage patients independently with physician oversight as needed for support.

Foundation Health Partners:

Foundation Health Partners is a community-owned and operated health system in Fairbanks, Alaska, comprised of 3 facilities, including Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, Tanana Valley Clinic, and Denali Center, a long-term care facility. As the most advanced medical facility for hundreds of miles, we are highly committed to treating the medical needs of everyone who comes through our doors.

FHP is proud to offer its providers:

• Professional autonomy and clinical work freedom.
• Strong commitment to work-life balance. Not just words, our leadership values your time. 
• Comprehensive benefits package and a competitive base salary with scalable income opportunities.
• $5,000 Paid CME per year, licensure reimbursement, and paid malpractice insurance.

• Opportunity to collaborate with the state's most extensive multidisciplinary health system.
• Consult, collaborate, and access Mayo Clinic resources through FHP’s partnership with Mayo Clinic Care Network

• 501(c)(3) non-profit status = eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

Submit your CV for confidential consideration to Alex Gustafson at providerrecruiting@foundationhealth.org | Visit our website at Physicians of Foundation Health Partners - Foundationhealthpartners to learn more. Foundation Health Partners is an EEO/AAP employer.

Living in Fairbanks:

As the second largest city in Alaska, Fairbanks offers a unique blend of large-town amenities, breathtaking landscapes, and plenty of wide-open space, making this community one of the most special in the country. With a rich history and plentiful diversity, Fairbanks is proud to be called the Golden Heart City, and only once you visit will you understand the name to be true. 

• Second largest city in Alaska at 100,000 residents.
• College Town – University of Alaska Fairbanks, UAF Community & Technical College
• Military Community – Ft. Wainwright Army Post & Eielson Air Force Base.
• 23 Elementary Schools | 4 Middle Schools | 5 High Schools | robust youth sports programs
• No state income tax and no sales tax.

Summer activities: Midnight sun, hiking, fishing, camping, gold panning, kayaking, berry picking, community-wide festivals, and events.

Winter activities: Northern lights, skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, hockey, curling, ice fishing, dog mushing, hunting, ice art, etc.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Must possess knowledge of clinical care and patient treatment as normally obtained through the completion of master's degree in nursing.

Must be approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) by the State Board of Nursing by proof of license/certification.

Requires current RN license in state of practice.

Must be certified to practice by the State Board of Nursing within a particular population as a nurse practitioner. Requires personal DEA license or must have prescribing and dispensing authority granted by the state board of nursing.

Proficient in computer applications and database management.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Current BLS certification preferred.

Foundation Health Partners is an EEO/AAP employer; qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.