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Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant

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At a Glance

Location
Edwards, Colorado, United States
Posted
2026-03-23T17:44:41-04:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Medical

Requirements

Extensive experience providing and supervising psychiatric services, prescribing psychotropic medication, performing psychiatric evaluations, and treating a wide variety of patient diagnoses/complaints, required.

Eligible for Medicare, Medicaid, and third-party reimbursement (not on any exclusion list), required.

Basic Life Support (BLS), required.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive Wages & Family Benefits:

Competitive wages

Parental leave (4 weeks paid)

Housing programs

Childcare reimbursement

Comprehensive Health Benefits:

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and treating mental and physical aspects of psychological problems across adolescent and adult populations at the Precourt Healing Center, an acute inpatient psychiatric facility.

This role reports to the Medical Director and within the psychiatric medical team, conducts thorough psychiatric evaluations, develops treatment plans, prescribes medication, and evaluates treatment results on patients.

This position participates as a fully integrated and embedded treatment team member for all clinical consultation, treatment planning, team meetings, family meetings, and discharge planning/execution.

Evaluates patients by interviewing patient, family, and other necessary collateral persons; conducting physical examinations; observing behaviors; reviewing medical history and related documents; selecting, administering, and interpreting medical and psychological tests; and ordering laboratory tests and evaluating results.

Formulates accurate diagnoses based on clinical assessment and collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.

Responsible for developing and delivering comprehensive clinical programming, treatment planning, and/or curriculum development.