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About The Position

Requirements

• Active, unencumbered Nurse Practitioner (APRN/APN), Physician Assistant (PA-C), or Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) license.
• Current DEA registration.
• Active license and DEA registration in at least one of the following states, with willingness to quickly obtain additional licenses as needed: Kentucky Pennsylvania Tennessee Florida North Carolina
• Master’s degree or higher from an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program.
• Strong communication and clinical decision-making skills.
• Ability to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced telemedicine environment.
• Comfort evaluating and managing common mental health, behavioral, and cognitive concerns within scope of practice.
• Willingness to participate in both medical and behavioral health/telepsychiatry-related encounters.
• Minimum commitment: 24 hours per week (two 12-hour shifts per week), Sunday–Saturday.
• Weekend requirement: One to two weekend shifts per month.
• Night shift requirement: One to two night shifts per month.
• Holiday coverage: Participation in one major or minor holiday annually, with advance scheduling and collaborative planning.

Nice To Haves

• At least 1 year of experience in a skilled nursing facility (SNF), long-term care, post-acute, hospital, emergency, or similar clinical setting.
• Experience caring for geriatric populations.
• Telehealth experience.
• Experience managing common psychiatric conditions such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, behavioral disturbances, and cognitive disorders.
• Formal behavioral health, psychiatry, or geriatric psychiatry experience is strongly preferred.
• Dual certification in primary care and psychiatric-mental health is highly desirable.
• Strong independent clinical decision-making.
• Comfortable managing acute changes in condition through telemedicine.
• Comfortable working with patients who have both medical and psychiatric complexity.
• Confident assessing mood, behavior, cognition, mental status, and safety concerns.
• Able to recognize when psychiatric symptoms can be managed within scope versus when specialty psychiatric consultation or a higher level of care is needed.
• Able to triage and risk-stratify effectively in a virtual setting.
• Clear and professional communication with nursing and interdisciplinary teams.
• Efficient documentation and workflow management.
• Adaptable and team-oriented.
• Comfortable balancing clinical autonomy with protocol-driven care.
• Interest in geriatric health, behavioral health, and post-acute medicine.

Responsibilities

• Respond to urgent and acute calls from skilled nursing facilities.
• Complete scheduled medical and behavioral health follow-up visits, including regulatory visits, medication monitoring, GDR-related follow-up, and other routine reevaluation needs.
• Evaluate and manage common SNF medical concerns via telemedicine.
• Evaluate common psychiatric, behavioral, and cognitive concerns within scope of practice.
• Assess changes in mood, anxiety, sleep, cognition, behavior, and mental status.
• Provide clinical recommendations, treatment plans, and escalation guidance.
• Determine when emergency transfer or a higher level of medical or psychiatric care is appropriate.
• Provide temporary medical and behavioral health coverage during planned or unexpected provider absences and other coverage gaps across Telos facilities.
• Collaborate with nursing staff, facility providers, psychiatry/behavioral health clinicians, and telehealth leadership.
• Document encounters accurately and efficiently within the EHR.
• Follow established clinical protocols and workflows while utilizing independent clinical judgment.
• Participate in onboarding, training, and occasional team meetings.
• Providers must be comfortable independently evaluating acute changes in condition in the SNF setting using telemedicine workflows, bedside nursing collaboration, and established escalation protocols.

Benefits

• Fully remote, work-from-home.
• Flexible scheduling.
• Comprehensive paid onboarding covering telemedicine workflows, acute SNF management, behavioral health assessment, triage, and clinical decision-making.
• Flexible patient volume expectations as the service line continues to grow.
• Streamlined, user-friendly EMR system.
• Dedicated operational and scheduling support.
• Strong collaboration and supportive clinical leadership.
• Access to mentorship and clinical consultation when needed.
• High-autonomy clinical environment with protocol-driven support.
• Opportunity to help shape and grow an expanding telemedicine and behavioral health service line.
• Multiple-state credentialing reimbursement.
• Ability to practice across multiple states via telehealth.
• Technology equipment provided for home office setup.