Nurse Practitioner New

WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Our Guiding Principles:

• Person Centered. We honor people’s identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.
• Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.
• Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.
• Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.
  
  

Excellence in Psychiatry. Impact in Community. WellPower is Denver’s leading provider of community-based mental health and wellbeing services—recognized as a Denver Post Top Workplace and nationally regarded for innovative, evidence-based care. Our psychiatric providers are empowered to shape clinical programs, lead multidisciplinary teams, and deliver person-centered treatment that improves lives at every stage. This is a part-time role with on-site requirements in Denver, CO.

Join us and practice psychiatry with:

• Clinical autonomy – design treatment approaches, introduce new modalities
• Collaboration – work alongside expert colleagues in psychiatry, psychology, nursing, therapy, and case management
• Mission-driven impact – care for diverse populations with varying levels of need, from children to older adults
  
  

Position Summary: As a Psychiatric Provider (Nurse Practitioner) you will be responsible for managing health problems and coordinating health care for the people we serve: assessment of health status, diagnosis, development of plan of care and treatment, implementation of treatment plan, and evaluation of patient status. Collaborating with psychiatrists to maximize efficiency of psychiatric services.

Compensation & Benefits:

• $77.80/hour - $78.80/hour
• For complete overview of our robust Benefits: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/
  
  

The posted range represents the full hiring range. Offers will not exceed this range, the majority of candidates are placed near the midpoint based on experience and qualifications.

Job Duties & Functions:

• Order and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests
• Provide consultation to staff, participate in staff conferences and serve on committees.
• Prescribe appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
• Function independently to perform appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients.
• Implement interventions to support the person in services to regain or maintain psychiatric stability
• Monitor the effectiveness of interventions.
• Facilitate the patient’s transition within and between health care settings.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals.
• Complete medical records and reports, and provide needed referrals to medical services.
• Coordinate care with respect to access to services, lab tests, case management, primary clinician, outreach services, other agencies related to the people we serve.
  
  

Requirements & Qualifications:

• Master of Science Psychiatric Nursing.
• Valid Prescriptive Authority in the State of Colorado in good standing.
• 3 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.
  
  

Work Location: BHSC Crisis Center 2929 W. 10th Ave. Denver, CO 80204.

Shift/Hours: Part-time, every Wednesday 6:30 AM to 7:30 PM and As Needed coverage (PRN).

Physical Requirements: Requires sitting, standing, bending, and reaching. May require occasional lifting up to 40 pounds. Requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate standard office machines such as computers, fax machines, the telephone and other office and/or clinical equipment.

We will accept applications on an ongoing basis.

Learn more about WellPower:

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.

WellPower is 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.

For a complete overview of our robust benefits, visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice