Remote Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner – NP – Florida

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At Author Health, we are a new company offering technology-enabled health care services for seniors with complex mental health conditions. We seek a behavioral health nurse practitioner to provide clinical care on a multidisciplinary team providing virtual-first care to seniors with serious mental illness (SMI).

Job Description: Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner

• Perform virtual initial psychiatric assessments, and follow-up care, to seniors with serious mental illness, through collaboration with a psychiatrist
• Create treatment plans that may involve prescribing medication, referring to psychotherapy or other modalities of treatment, and determining whether referrals to higher levels of care are warranted
• Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team to address patients’ physical, behavioral health and social needs, including psychiatry (MD/DO/NP), primary care, social work, community health workers and care coordinators
• Deliver patient care and patient education in a manner that is appropriate to a patient’s age, physical ability, educational level, and culture, potentially involving the patient’s family members in this process
• Participate in the coordination of care with PCPs and other medical professionals who are taking care of patients
• When necessary, order laboratory and imaging workup
• When clinically indicated, may perform in-person assessments
• Timely and comprehensive documentation of clinical work in the electronic health record
• Perform similar or related duties as assigned or required
• Comfort working within a new care delivery paradigm

Requirements:

• Board-certified PMHNP licensed to practice in Florida, or able to obtain a Florida license
• Self-starter, takes initiative, comfort with ambiguity and working in a nascent environment
• Excitement about providing care to patients with SMI in a new care paradigm
• Passion about improving the lives of patients and their caregivers, and improving care delivery
• Experience treating patients with serious mental illness (preferred: experience treating seniors)
• Bilingual Spanish-English preferred
• Greater than three years of experience providing direct psychiatric care is a plus
• Experience working on a multidisciplinary team of providers is a plus
• Comfort managing patients with complex medical and psychosocial needs
• Experience working in a collaborative care model is a plus
• Full-time, 40h/week (anticipate 30h/week direct virtual patient care), with occasional on-call responsibilities

Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Pay: $130,000.00 – $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Geriatrics
• Home Health
• Psychiatry

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Overtime pay

Supplemental schedule:

• Overtime

Weekly schedule:

• 5×8
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work setting:

• Remote
• Telehealth

Experience:

• Psychiatric care: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• PMHNP (Required)

Work Location: Remote