Nurse Practitioner | Kern Street Medicine

The role

A Nurse Practitioner will provide frontline acute, chronic, and preventative care to vulnerable populations in field-based settings. This role involves conducting assessments, managing patient panels, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team using AI-driven tools.

What you will do

• Provide frontline care to patients experiencing homelessness, behavioral health challenges, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and complex chronic conditions.
• 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 to address atypical and complex patient cases.
• Design and implement care plans that support patients toward stability and improved health outcomes.
• Collaborate daily with multidisciplinary team including physician, nurses, social workers, and outreach staff.
• Document all encounters to maintain accurate, up-to-date records.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required qualifications

• Comfortable providing direct care in outdoor, field-based settings under dynamic and unpredictable conditions.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• 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.
• Ability to lead, prioritize and analyze clinical workflows, objectives and team goals.
• Ability to direct and coordinate clinical support staff.
• Active, unrestricted California Nurse Practitioner Certificate by the time of hire.
• Nurse Practitioner Furnishing Number (California).
• Nurse Practitioner National Certificate.
• Registered Nurse License (California).

Nice to have

• Bilingual in English and Spanish
• 1+ years of experience with and comfort working with CalAIM populations of focus

Benefits

• $15,000 signing bonus with 2 year commitment
• Up to $5,000 of relocation costs covered

About the company

Akido is an AI-native care provider that combines technology with a nationwide medical network to address the physician shortage. It serves over 500K patients across California, Rhode Island, and New York.