APP Family Practice Locum/Perm in AK

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Subject: Serve Remote Alaska Villages – Family NP/PA Opportunity with SEARHC

Arc Health is partnering with SEARHC to place a Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in remote Alaskan villages based out of Juneau. This is a unique opportunity to deliver high-impact care in tribal communities accessible only by air or boat.

Highlights:

• Flexible 4+ week assignments with solo staffing in low-resource settings
• 8–15 patients/day, mix of adult (70%) and pediatric (30%) care
• Full-spectrum services: emergency response, prenatal/postnatal, minor procedures
• Support staff include MA, RN, CHAPs, and Case Manager
• $80–90/hr + $18/hr for call; housing, travel, and car rental covered
• EHR: Meditech (2025); referral hospital 550 air miles away

Requirements:

• AK NP/PA license, DEA, BLS (ACLS/PALS/ATLS within 1 year)
• 5+ years’ experience, comfortable with remote solo practice
• Cultural humility and commitment to underserved care

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Attention: NPs Ready to work at the top of your license! Alaska is calling! Ak license not required to start.

$800 – $800 daily

99752, Kotzebue, Alaska, United States

Nurse Practitioner

  Family Practice/Primary Care

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Job at a glance

Degree Required Other

Position Type Locums/Travel

Work Environment Outpatient

Visa Sponsorship No

Experience Level 3 years

Job description

Last updated: 6/02/25

Arc Health is seeking highly experienced, flexible and independent FNPs to practice at the top of their license to serve in northern Alaska above the Arctic Circle for 4-6 weeks at a time for multiple assignments throughout the year. This position is not for the faint at heart. This is a tough but highly rewarding position helping patients who might not otherwise get direct care. Ideal candidates must be: Comfortable with solo staffing and working independently in urgent and emergency situations as well as in an office for primary care

• Clinically capable, resourceful, adaptable, industrious, and personally willing to be flexible, and interested in making a long-term commitment to serving this rural community.
• Compassionate, mission-driven social medicine practitioners
• Interested in joining a dynamic and potentially disruptive social healthcare enterprise

Practice Description Schedule: 4-6 weeks at a time spent in one remote village, on an ongoing basis. May spend ~1 week in the town of Kotzebue before or after village work. Travel to village is by fixed-wing aircraft only.

• Support staff (in some locations): 1-2 Community Health Aides (trained and certified), receptionist, dental health aide
• EMR: Cerner
• Further details: Housing and travel provided. Providers in village clinics operate independently but can work in tandem with physicians assigned to the village who work in Kotzebue. Radio allows for prompt communication and there are emergency services (medivac) available for urgent needs.