Nurse Practitioner, Recovery Clinic
About The Position
Jefferson Center is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join their Recovery Clinic and Mobile MAT team, a substance use focused collaborative care team. The role involves working within a phase-based care model to revolutionize healthcare delivery using a data-driven and team-based approach. The Recovery Collaborative Care team provides immediate, non-crisis substance use and recovery support and therapeutic services for adults 18 and older, including Indigent clients and clients with Medicaid or Kaiser insurance. The Recovery Clinic team offers wraparound clinical services such as care coordination, initial and concurrent assessments, individual therapy, case management, and medication management, delivered both in-person and virtually Monday through Thursday. The Mobile MAT program extends access to Medication Assisted Treatment for opioid use disorders to individuals outside metro Denver, connecting them to various Jefferson Center services including senior services, wellness services, community outreach, suicide prevention trainings, and Mental Health First Aid, aiming to provide immediate access to behavioral health, substance use, and wellness services.
Requirements
- RN degree (or equivalent)
- Master’s Degree in Nursing
- CNS (Clinical Nurse Specialist) certification
- Prescriptive Authority licensure by the Colorado Board of Nursing
- DEA certificate
- Knowledgeable to psychopharmacology, medical/psychiatric interface, and evidence-based neuropsychiatric/neurobehavioral diagnosis and treatment
- Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary team in the delivery of comprehensive and integrated interventions
- Ability and willingness to work in face-to face client settings or via video telehealth
- Skills, experience, or vested interest in integrated health care approaches
- Comfort or knowledge with prescribing MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment) medications such as suboxone.
- Comfort with working with indigent and individuals experience co-occurring disorders (including severe substance use and psychotic disorders).
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual preferred but not required
Responsibilities
- Provides diagnostic/medication evaluations, and individual and group medication management; provide medication education and psychoeducation
- Consults to nurses triaging phone calls to address medication problems and refill requests
- Orders and monitors appropriate laboratory tests at clinically indicated frequency
- Monitors and reviews consumers’ charts for medication/medical issues with appropriate follow-up
- Administer evidence-based measurement tools regularly and consume outcome data to drive clinical collaboration discussions and consequently, a client’s care planning
- Identify risk factors such as lethality for suicidal, homicidal, and/or grave disability and coordinate with emergency services as necessary
- Participate in evidence-based practices and other agency initiatives for mental health and co-occurring substance use services
- Exhibit enthusiasm, courtesy, adaptability, and spirit of cooperation and teamwork in the work environment
- Effectively respond to client needs and problems; initiate and maintain positive interactions; timely response to messages and other requests
- Utilize data and new operational practices to better adapt caseload complexity
- Timely documentation in the electronic health record
- Coordination for emergency services when clinically indicated or medically necessary; risk/lethality assessment
- Consistently meets the expectations of the job
Benefits
- $2,000 one month anniversary bonus
- $1,500 one year anniversary bonus
- ($3,500 total) bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
