Advanced Practice Provider - Inpatient SUD Consults - $2,000 Sign On

About the role

As a Steadfast Health APP working in our hospital partner settings, you’ll practice at the top of your license, providing a compassionate, evidence-based, addiction medicine consult service that fills a critical gap in substance use disorder care. You will serve as a primary point of contact for providers in the hospital, delivering timely consultations, treatment recommendations, and mission-driven support to patients. As a key member of the hospital-based consult team, you’ll collaborate closely with attending physicians, hospitalists, nursing staff, and case managers, with readily available physician backup and close connection to Steadfast’s leadership team. This is a ground-floor opportunity to help shape the future of addiction treatment within the hospital system.

Responsibilities

• Conduct inpatient consultations for patients with substance use disorders and related comorbidities.
• Collaborate closely with hospital teams—including attending physicians, nursing staff, and case managers—to develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans.
• Provide compassionate, patient-centered advocacy using Motivational Interviewing principles.
• Deliver up-to-date, life-saving, cutting-edge SUD therapies with ongoing mentorship from specialty-trained addiction experts.
• Ensure smooth handoffs to outpatient Steadfast Health clinics and community resources to support continuity and reduce barriers to long-term recovery.
• Build strong, respectful relationships with hospital staff to contribute to an integrated, collaborative model of care.
• Demonstrate flexibility and proactive problem-solving in a dynamic, fast-paced hospital environment.
• Pursue continuous learning to stay current on addiction medicine and hospital-based best practices.
• Provide occasional cross-coverage for outpatient clinic APPs as needed to ensure seamless patient care and team support.

Qualifications

• NP (FNP, AGNP, PMHNP preferred) or PA-C with Internal, Family, Emergency, or Hospital Medicine experience preferred, licensed in the state of Tennessee.
• Minimum of 1–2 years of hospital-based clinical experience strongly preferred.
• Comprehensive medical and/or psychiatric evaluation and management experience in substance use disorder treatment.
• Knowledge of SUD diagnoses, medications, and treatment modalities.
• Ability to confidently navigate hospital systems, workflows, and interdisciplinary teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust with patients and collaborate effectively with hospital staff.
• Flexible, solutions-oriented, and committed to continuous learning and professional development.
• Passionate about Steadfast Health’s mission to provide low-barrier, non-punitive, harm-reductionist SUD care.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision insurance, plus 100% employer-paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) with up to 5% company match.
• 29 days off a year to start (PTO, floating holidays, paid volunteer days), increasing on your anniversary—plus 4 Re-Fuel Days annually for mental health, rest, or CEU activities.
• $2,000 annual CEU stipend and ongoing paid training.
• Free, confidential EAP access to therapy, legal, financial, and wellness resources.
• Protected time built into your day for recharging, clinical supervision, huddles, care planning, and admin work.
• MA/LPN and Peer Recovery Specialist support, collaborative care model with physician backup, and manageable panel sizes so you can practice at the top of your license.
• Extra perks: SoFi student loan interest rate discount, Rightway Health Concierge, a year of free pet telehealth through Pawp, and Perkspot discount marketplace.
• Soulside AI documentation support.

We believe lived experience with recovery is a strength, not a barrier—many of our team bring personal or family experience with addiction and recovery, and we welcome candidates in recovery to apply.