Full-time Nurse Practitioner
Mental Health Center of Denver

EMPLOYMENT VALUE PROPOSITION: WellPower provides you with the support you need to help you develop a career in helping others succeed. We innovate, adapt, and leverage the diverse perspectives of the people on our team and the people we serve in everything we do.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSIVENESS: WellPower values and is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to ending bias and discrimination in our community and ensuring equity within all aspects of our organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

COMMITMENT TO PAY EQUITY: WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range.

BENEFITS STATEMENT: All full-time, benefits eligible employees will be eligible for WellPower's benefits plan. For a full description of benefit offerings, please visit: https://WellPower.org/workplace-of-choice/.

Tuberculosis (TB) screening, testing - TB screening and testing, is required and must be completed prior to hire ( i.e., preplacement), and maintained during employment

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Pay Range & Benefits:

STARTING SALARY: $107,440 - $126,400/year

HOURS: Full-time, 40 hours per week

POSITION SUMMARY: Provide basic psychiatric clinical services to consumers at the assigned team(s) in accordance with state mandate for advanced practice nurses with prescriptive authority. Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency highly preferred.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Provide direct psychiatric services through comprehensive evaluation, diagnoses, and treatment of consumers.
• Prescribe and administer medications, and assist consumers in medication management in collaboration with the attending psychiatrist under state guidelines:
• A stabilized severe and persistently illness
• An acute self-limiting condition (condition with a defined diagnosis, predictable outcome, and is not threatening to life or limb).
• Collaborate with attending psychiatrist to maximize efficiency of psychiatric services, including partial coverage in psychiatrist.
• Provide consultation to staff, participate in staff conferences and serve on committees.
• Provide coverage for psychiatric emergencies, including mental health hold evaluations.
• Complete medical records and reports, and provide needed referrals to medical services for psychiatric consumers.
• Coordinate consumer care with respect to access to services, lab tests, case management, primary clinician, outreach services, other agencies related to the consumer's care.
• Contact pharmaceutical companies in regard to educational materials, samples, and other information.
• Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.
• Other related duties as assigned by Program Manager.

EDUCATION: Master of Science Psychiatric Nursing. Valid Prescriptive Authority in the State of Colorado in good standing.

EXPERIENCE: 4 years of experience in relevant clinical setting with understanding of psychiatric services in the area of health and psychological assessment, clinical diagnosis, pharmacology, and direct consumer services. Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency highly preferred.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Knowledge or ability to learn and practice trauma informed principles and practices.
• Medical expertise consistent with advanced practice nursing.
• Knowledge of the use of psychotropic and similar drugs.
• Competency in mental health treatment
• Ability to work with interdisciplinary team.
• Communicate effectively with staff and other agencies.
• Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency highly preferred.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None

MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT TO BE USED: Computers, calculators, fax machines, copiers, telephone and a variety of other office/clerical equipment.

TYPICAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Requires sitting, standing, bending and reaching. May require lifting up to 50 pounds. Requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate standard office machines such as computers, fax machines, the telephone and other office and/or clinical equipment.

WORKING CONDITIONS: May require occasional evening or weekend hours.

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