Pediatric Clinic Nurse Practitioner

About the role

The Pediatric Clinic Nurse Practitioner will conduct thorough patient intakes, screenings, and assessments, providing ongoing education to families and coordinating care with other specialists.

Responsibilities

• Complete thorough patient intakes, screenings, and assessments that consider the unique characteristics and needs of each patient and family member.
• Triage referrals for acute needs to other members of the Cortica team.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team members to coordinate comprehensive care for each patient.
• Utilize the nursing process, scientific reasoning, and critical problem-solving to practice within the scope of responsibilities as defined by the State Board of Nursing, including placing orders and screening tests in accordance with approved protocols and guidelines.
• Provide ongoing education to families on a diverse set of well-delineated topics, including autism, sleep, pill-swallowing, sexuality, and navigating the school system.
• Work with the cognitive and behavioral child neurologists and pediatricians to provide ongoing care for attention, sleep, headaches, and challenging behavior, medication management, and medical follow-ups.

Requirements

• Minimum of 24 months in pediatric practice in an outpatient setting (pediatric or family nurse practitioner), preferably behavioral neurology and/or Neurodevelopmental Medicine (NDM) and pediatric behavior disorders, including autism.
• Experience prescribing medication within a pediatric outpatient setting.
• Knowledge of ADIR/ADOS diagnostic evaluation (Gold standard).

Qualifications

• Current and unrestricted license and/or certification required to practice within your clinical domain and obtain cross-state licensure in new states as indicated by the current business needs.
• Proficiency in administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.

Skills

• Knowledge of diagnoses and therapies for Autism, ADHD, Anxiety, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Speech and Language delay, Sensory Processing Disorder, Headaches, Insomnia, Epilepsy (seizure action plan, safety), sensory processing disorder, and other neurodevelopmental diagnosis.

Benefits

• Salary Range (DOE): $141,000 to $176,000
• 5% Annual Bonus
• $2,000 continuing education stipend
• Stock options
• 401k matching
• PTO and continuing education/wellness days
• Paid holidays
• Health, vision, dental, and pet insurance
• Referral bonuses