Registered Nurse (RN) – HIV & Community-Based Care

Make a difference where it matters most! As a Registered Nurse (RN) - HIV & Community-Based Care at PCHC, you’ll bring compassionate, patient-centered care directly to people who face barriers to traditional healthcare. From HIV treatment and prevention to street medicine and community outreach, you’ll build relationships, connect people with essential resources, and help make healthcare more accessible.

If you’re looking for a dynamic nursing role where every day brings new opportunities to serve, problem-solve, and make an impact, we’d love to meet you!

What You’ll Do

• Provide HIV Care & Prevention: Support patients living with HIV or at risk for HIV through testing, education, treatment coordination, medication adherence, preventive HIV injections, HIV treatment injections, and follow-up.
• Take Nursing Beyond the Clinic: Provide care in clinic settings, shelters, encampments, and other community locations through outreach and street medicine.
• Assess, Educate & Coordinate Care: Conduct nursing assessments, triage concerns, monitor clinical status, and coordinate follow-up with providers and community partners.
• Support Whole-Person Health: Contribute to primary care, immunizations, wound care coordination, chronic disease support, recovery services, overdose prevention, and harm reduction.
• Break Down Barriers: Help patients navigate medications, appointments, transportation, insurance coverage, referrals, and community resources.
• Build Trust & Connections: Partner with an interdisciplinary team to deliver trauma-informed, culturally responsive care that respects each patient's needs, goals, and lived experience.
• Help Improve Care: Participate in team huddles, case conferences, outreach planning, and quality improvement initiatives that strengthen patient engagement and health outcomes.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Mission-Driven: You believe everyone deserves access to compassionate, respectful healthcare, regardless of housing status, financial circumstances, or life experiences.
• Flexible & Resourceful: You’re comfortable thinking on your feet, adjusting priorities, and providing care in settings that don't always look like a traditional clinic.
• Relationship-Focused: You understand the importance of trust, patience, and meeting people where they are - without judgment.
• Clinically Strong: You bring sound nursing judgment, critical thinking, and the ability to prioritize competing needs in a dynamic environment.
• Collaborative & Independent: You work well with an interdisciplinary team while feeling confident taking initiative in community-based settings.
• Curious & Open to Learning: You’re interested in HIV care and prevention, harm reduction, substance use treatment, and the unique challenges facing underserved populations.

What You’ll Need

• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in Maine.
• Associate degree in Nursing required; Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• Will have up-to-date training and certification in Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support issued by American Heart Association, American Red Cross or American Health & Safety Institute. Must obtain within 2 weeks if not current at hire.
• Valid driver's license and an acceptable driving record, subject to PCHC's Automobile Safety and Background Check Policy.
• Ability to travel between clinic and community locations and participate in outreach activities, including walking, standing, carrying supplies, and working in variable weather conditions.
• Ability to maintain accurate documentation and uphold confidentiality, infection prevention, medication safety, and professional nursing standards.

Experience That Will Set You Apart

• Experience in HIV care, infectious disease, public health, community health, primary care, behavioral health, substance use treatment, homelessness services, correctional health, emergency care, or outreach-based care.
• Experience with trauma-informed care, harm reduction, motivational interviewing, de-escalation, or working with medically and socially complex populations.
• Familiarity with Ryan White services, PrEP navigation, HIV testing protocols, partner services, medication access programs, and community-based referral systems.

Schedule &

Work Environment

• A blend of clinic-based care, community outreach, street medicine, and drop-in services.
• Travel between clinic and community locations based on patient and program needs.
• Schedule flexibility to support outreach activities, drop-in hours, and evolving program priorities.
• Schedule: Part-Time, Anticipated 36 Hours/Week with (4) 9-hr Days

Why PCHC?

At PCHC, our mission is at the heart of what we do. We work to improve the health and well-being of our communities by making quality healthcare accessible to everyone. This is an opportunity to put that mission into action every day - building relationships, addressing barriers, and helping people access the care and support they deserve.

If you’re curious, excited, or just want to learn more—we’d love to hear from you!

Apply today, or request the full job description by emailing [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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