Your career, your legacy, your adventure

Mountain Family Health Centers (MFHC) are in Glenwood Springs, Basalt, Rifle, and Edwards Colorado. Each community health center is as unique as the town in which it is located, but all share the same mission:

“To provide high quality, integrated primary, behavioral, and dental health care in the communities we serve, with special consideration for the medically underserved, regardless of ability to pay.”

The career opportunities at Mountain Family brings with it the chance to work with an amazing team of professionals and be a part of a team who helps serve a rapidly growing patient population.   

 We are a strong and rapidly growing Community Health Center located in the beautiful Colorado Mountains, with strong schools, abundant outdoor activities, and vibrant communities. We provide integrated medical-dental-behavioral health care, with 4 clinics, 15,000 patients served annually, $14M annual operating budget, and 120 staff. We are recognized as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home by the National Committee on Quality Assurance

You get to grow as a professional and develop the skills pertinent to meeting the needs of employees and patients. You will work with an experienced leadership team with multiple state and national awards for healthcare innovation. But most important, YOUR career will be about making a difference while living in paradise!!! 

Utilize professional nursing theory and the nursing process to implement, coordinate and direct patient care and auxiliary nursing care activities, using a community health center primary care model. This registered nurse will also train other nurse staff how to consistently deliver health care related services according to MFHC best practice and for perform other related duties as required 

A. Education or Formal Training & Experience:  

a. Registered Nurse with two (2) years’ experience in primary outpatient care preferred.  

b. Current Colorado license.

c. Current B.L.S. certification.

d. Bi-lingual in English/Spanish preferred  

B. Knowledge, Skill & Ability: 

a. Demonstrate excellent communication, assessment and problem solving skills.

b. Willingness to travel to all clinic sites, sometimes on short notice

c. Demonstrate strong knowledge in nursing practices and procedures.

d. Demonstrate a strong knowledge of medical equipment, nursing procedures, documentation, patient education and knowledge of community resources.

e. Competent in general office skills such as computers, faxes, telephones and copy machines.

f. Competent in computer skills and EHR/EPM use.

g. Ability to organize and prioritize work load.

h. Maintain effective and positive professional working relationship with staff and patients at all times.

i. Ability to understand and respond effectively and with sensitivity to special populations served by MFHC.

j. Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

k. Ability to travel to other locations and to meetings outside of the service area.

l. Ability to work flexible hours to meet job requirements     

C. Physical Requirements and Workplace Environment: 

a. Job offer contingent on being free of active tuberculosis.  

b. Requires the ability to lift up to 30 pounds.

c. Requires ability to hear routine conversations.

d. Requires periods of standing and walking while seeing patients.

e. Requires sufficient near vision to be able to read documents and computer screen.

f. Requires movement from room to room.

g. Requires ability to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and reach.

h. Requires ability to comprehend both oral and written communications.

i. O.S.H.A. classification Category 1: All procedures or other job-related tasks involve an inherent potential for mucous membrane or skin contact with blood, body fluids or tissues or a potential for spills or splashes of these fluids.

j. HIPAA Classification: Unrestricted Access: A workforce member with unrestricted access will have full access to patient’s protected health information, including the patient’s entire medical record, for patient care purposes.  

k. Must pass a criminal background check

l. Annual Flu vaccine required. Employer will provide

m. Obtain 2 step PPD for tuberculosis (annually if provider). Employer will provide 

n. Obtain vaccine records for MMR, Varicella, T-DaP and Hep B. Employer will provide

Hourly salary hiring range is $27.13- $29.33/hrDOE

Benefits include Employer paid Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance. Matching 403B plan after 1 year. Other Benefits include:

• Relocation
  
• Continuing Education
• EAP
• PTO accrual up to 240 hours
• Much more

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.