Telehealth Nurse Practitioner (new grads welcome to apply!) - Pennsylvania Licensed

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Requirements:

• Family Nurse Practitioner
• Licensed in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and/or New Jersey
• Ability to provide patient-centered, non-judgmental, non-stigmatizing compassionate care
• Demonstrated experience working with vulnerable or marginalized populations
• Comfortable working with a diverse population of people
• Proficient and comfortable working in a remote tele-health environment
• Excited about working in an early-stage healthcare startup that is fast-paced and always evolving processes and technology to meet patient and clinician needs
• Ability to independently manage a large panel of patients
• Working knowledge of differential diagnosis of common substance use disorders
• Basic knowledge of psychopharmacology for opioid use disorder
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team setting
• Ability to maintain effective and professional relationships with patient and other members of the care team
• Working knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial treatments, counseling techniques, or brief behavioral intervention

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Prescribing Clinician (PC) to determine individualized treatment plans for patients; facilitate changes to treatment plans when patients are not improving as expected in consultation with the PC
• Use motivational interviewing, behavioral activation and other behavioral interventions as needed to motivate patients to remain in care and adherent to their treatment plan and conduct behavioral health / psych evals for the suite of psych services we treat (depression, anxiety, insomnia, etc.)
• Systematically track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and side effects, treatment adherence, the effectiveness of treatment or complications; prepare prescription requests for the PC to approve
• Ensure patients remain compliant with essential and recurring clinical tasks, including monthly completion of measurement based care assessments
• Provide patient education on OUD and MOUD
• Document all patient encounters in Ophelia’s EHR in a timely manner