Are you passionate about total health and well-being? Do you prefer preventative medicine approaches to care? Then join the growing CoreLife family. At CoreLife, our providers are vital to the success of CoreLife and our patients. For this reason, CoreLife invests in your personal and professional development. We appreciate and recognize the value in arming our providers with the skills and tools to provide exceptional care as it relates to obesity management.

CoreLife enhances total health by providing a multifaceted approach to obesity, chronic illnesses, their root causes, and related side effects. The Nurse Practitioner is a licensed independent practitioner who is responsible for providing medical management to patients through an interdisciplinary model, serving as the lead member of a care team consisting of a dietitian, exercise trainer, and licensed clinical social worker. The Nurse Practitioner will monitor and manage with appropriate interventions, obesity and the chronic comorbidities often associated.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

• Provide support every step of the way of the patient journey

• Provide education and interventions to decrease morbidity and mortality

• Introduce patients to CoreLife philosophy and interdisciplinary model of care

• Assume responsibility and care for unmanaged patients; provide appropriate assessment, intervention, pharmacotherapy, and diagnostic referral if required

• Along with the patient, create achievable and targeted goals for body mass index

• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate comprehensive history and physical for complex chronically ill patients

• Prescribe pharmacotherapy, including phentermine, as an adjunct to the CoreLife multidisciplinary model to treat obesity

• Initiate bidirectional communication with the referring provider with relevant events or changes in condition during the patient lifecycle

• Execute a care plan over a series of follow up visits that serves to manage disease states

Other Responsibilities:

• Assist with staffing and coverage needs by conducting telehealth visits and occasional travel to nearby clinics

Education & Requirements:

• Minimum requirement of Master’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited institution

• Certification as a Nurse Practitioner by the AANP or ANCC

• Active DEA & CDS

• Current CPR

Work Experience:

• Family practice experience preferred

• Obesity management and anti-obesity medication knowledge preferred

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities :

• Critical thinking in a patient care environment

• Strong comfortability in medical decision making and prescribing medication

• Interpersonal skills that establish productive working relationships with a multidisciplinary team and administrative support

• High level ability to use an electronic medical record

• Ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal form to patients, public, medical staff, and physicians

• Creating a patient care environment that is sensitive to individuals suffering from obesity

• Ability to counsel and motivate others, as individuals and as a group.

• Experience working in a diverse environment

• Flexibility to adapt to changes in medical protocols and policy.

• Accepting educational advice, coaching, and novel approaches to patient care as delivered by the medical leadership team

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $105,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year

Benefits:

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

Weekly schedule:

• No weekends

Work setting:

• Clinic

COVID-19 considerations:
Everyone is required to be Fully COVID vaccinated.

Work Location: One location