About this role

Position Title: Prescriber, APRN
Location: Colorado Springs, CO (In-person)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Schedule: 40 hours per week, schedule set by supervisor

FLSA Status: EXEMPT – This position is classified as Exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

At Diversus Health, every team member plays a vital role in improving access to behavioral health care for individuals and families throughout our community, including underserved and vulnerable populations. When you join our team, you become part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to removing barriers to care, promoting recovery, and creating healthier communities.
Whether your passion is clinical care, crisis services, operations, administration, leadership, or support services, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference while building a rewarding and fulfilling career.

Why Join Diversus Health?
•   Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Eligible Employer*
•   Tuition Reimbursement Opportunities
•   Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
•   401(k) with a 4% Company Match
•   Generous Paid Time Off, Sick Leave, and Paid Holidays
•   Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
•   Employer-Paid Life Insurance, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability Coverage for Eligible Employees
•   Professional Development and Continuing Education Support
•   Career Growth and Advancement Opportunities
•   Collaborative, Mission-Driven Culture
•   Meaningful Work Serving Underserved and Vulnerable Members of Our Community
*Benefits, eligibility requirements, and plan details are outlined in the Benefits Overview brochure. In the event of any discrepancy, the official plan documents govern.

Job Summary:

Serves as a leader on a multidisciplinary treatment team that provides adult inpatient psychiatric care for patients in acute mental health or substance use crisis. Performs psychiatric and substance use evaluations and diagnostic assessments. Develops treatment plan in collaboration with the patient and treatment team, that includes recommendation of psychotropic treatment options and other therapeutic interventions

Essential Functions:

- Serves as an admission provider 8am-5pm Monday-Friday.

- Performs a psychiatric and medical assessment within 24 hours of admission to determine diagnoses, treatment strategies, and care coordination needs for adult patients in the inpatient facility.

- Daily evaluation/coordination of current treatment plan with treatment team and adjusting as needed.

- Completes medication/health education to include but not limited to informed consent, benefits, risks, side effects, and alternative treatments for medications ordered, health/wellness management, metabolic risk reduction strategies.

- Completes involuntary holds and court ordered medication in collaboration with a physician. Assures patients are managed in the least restrictive environment.

- Performs timely, concurrent, accurate clinical/billing documentation meeting professional standards in compliance with State and Federal regulations. Documentation and billing coding for all services fully support clinical necessity and appropriate E & M coding standards.

- Coordination of care with outside entities and family as needed for collateral and discharge planning if unable to be addressed by other members of the treatment team.

- Consults and collaborates complex cases to Supervising physician/Secondary supervising physician as clinically indicated.

- Participates in orienting Diversus Health Staff to the acute treatment unit.

- Participates in precepting students from the community.

- Completes peer to peer reviews with insurance companies on patients when necessary.

- Schedule will include 8-hour shifts Monday-Friday with one weekend a month coverage to include rounding and call. Additional compensation is provided for weekend coverage.

- Will provide rotating holiday coverage (rounding and call) in coordination with the other ATU provider. This includes working one major holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s).

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

- Licensed Psychiatric APRN with prescriptive authority and DEA in good standing and with no restrictions in the state of Colorado.

- Experience prescribing Suboxone and other medications for Medication Assisted Therapy.

- Ability to perform a psychiatric assessment, physical examination, and treatment of populations served.

- Knowledge of and experience in theoretical and pharmacological issues related to clinical treatment of common psychiatric and substance use disorders.

- Must have sufficient language skills and be able to communicate both verbally and in writing to patients.

- Must possess basic computers kills and type 25+ w.p.m. for the input and output of patient information using electronic record.

- Embodies Diversus Health’s Core Values:

Teamwork: We achieve more together.

- Solution-Minded: We embrace problems as opportunities.

- Impactful: We inspire positive outcomes.

- Integrity: We commit to do what is right

Qualifications