Lead, Nurse Practitioner - Central Region

What We Strive For

Strive Health is built for purpose - to transform a broken kidney care system. We are fundamentally changing the lives of people with kidney disease through early identification, engagement and comprehensive coordinated care. Strive's model is driven by a high-touch care team that integrates with local providers and spans the entire care journey from chronic kidney disease through end-stage kidney disease, leveraging comparative and predictive data and analytics to identify at-risk patients. Strive Health's interventions significantly reduce the rate of emergent dialysis crash, cut inpatient utilization and significantly improve patient outcomes and experience. Come join our journey as we create THE destination for top talent in the healthcare community and set a new standard for how kidney care should be done.

Why We're Worth the Application

• We Strive for excellence and Strive has been recognized with six Best Place to Work awards, including Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2023 and 2022, Built In Colorado's Best Places to Work 2022 and 2024, Comparably's Best Places to Work in Denver 2022 and The Tech Tribune's Best Startups in Denver 2022. Additionally, Strive's CEO, Chris Riopelle, has been recognized as one of Denver Business Journal's Most Admired CEOs.

• We derive innovation and ideas from through authentic diversity intentionally building a team that represents the populations we serve in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups:

• Strive Forward - LGBTQ

• Underrepresented Minorities

• Women and Allies

• We care and support our Strivers within and beyond work to feel fully charged and empowered through our generous wellbeing offerings including:

• Flexible time off

• Companywide wellbeing days

• Volunteer time off

• Leave packages including a sabbatical, parental leave and eight weeks paid for living donor

• Professional development

• A dedicated certified financial planner

• Headspace, Carrot Fertility and Gympass for all Strivers

• We like to have fun by celebrating our successes as a team through team building, company gatherings, trivia, wellbeing raffles, pajama days, a companywide book club and more.

• We value tenacity to help us overcome obstacles with grit and determination to deliver compassionate kidney care.

What You'll Do

As part of Strive's interdisciplinary clinical care team, the NP Lead will utilize their advanced education, skills, and judgment to deliver advanced nursing care for CKD and ESRD patients. The NP Lead will be responsible for managing patient care by collaborating with the Strive interdisciplinary team of RN Care Managers, social workers, care coordinators, pharmacists, dietitians, and physicians to provide best in class patient care. The Strive NP Lead will be an advocate, navigator, trusted clinician, and safety net for the patient while delivering exceptional clinical care, building empathy and trust with patients, and delivering a world class patient experience. In addition to co-managing a panel of patients, the NP Lead will also supervise the local team of Nurse Practitioners while acting as the clinical subject matter expert and resource for patients, their families, the local care team, and other healthcare professionals.

The Day to Day

• Understands value-based care and applies principles to practice.

• Accountable for patient outcomes and KPIs for a panel of CKD and ESRD patients.

• Assess patient needs, deliver advanced quality nursing care, and achieve optimal patient outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease and ESRD.

• Obtains patient history, performs appropriate physical exam, orders and interprets diagnostic tests and lab values to identify and assess patient's health care needs.

• On an ongoing basis, monitors and documents patient condition, response to the care plan and significant incidents.

• Must meet expectations of Strive's documentation policy.

• Alongside with other members of the interdisciplinary team, will assure that a patient's need for immediate and/or emergent care is handled promptly and appropriately.

• Willingness to drive prevention at every opportunity to slow progression, decrease exacerbations, and minimize complications, while keeping in mind what the patient wants for their life.

• Accountable across the continuum of disease process, healthcare systems, and patient's lives.

• Assesses the longitudinal needs of patients and individualizes them in the patient's plan of care.

• Collaborates well with all levels of the clinical team and is able to align and influence the care needs of a patient. Serves as a liaison with dialysis facilities, PCPs, and nephrologists, providing care plan updates to help streamline the transitions in care.

• Remains up-to-date and current on advances and trends in renal care treatment, guidelines, policies and procedures.

• Follows evidence-based medicine and incorporates best practices into patient care.

• Provides patients home visits and willing to be on call.

• Follows established best practices for kidney care, including:

• Patient Intake and Assessment

• CKD clinical care includes management of CKD progression and co-morbidities and support of transitions to renal replacement therapy or conservative care

• ESRD clinical care and co-morbidity management

• Preventative care

• Patient engagement

• Close monitoring of high-risk patients

• Participation in shared decision making and Advanced Care Planning discussions

• Transplant Support - pre and post

• Collaboration with inpatient providers and Post Discharge Support

• ER Diversion

• End of Life Support

• Serves patients in person and in multiple care settings (e.g., patients' home, clinics) in addition to virtual visits.

• Provides patient visits via home and telehealth.

• Meet in person with internal and/or external stakeholders to facilitate team and business priorities/opportunities.

• Serves as a liaison with dialysis facilities, PCPs, and nephrologists, providing care plan updates to help streamline the transitions in care.

• Participates in Strive's on-call program.

• Manages NP care team-- PTO approval, Time and Attendance approval and tracking, CME tracking, team scheduling and approval, performance reviews, chart audits

• Manages clinical oversight of care team

Minimum Qualifications

• Completion of Master's or Doctorate level degree in Nursing

• Minimum of three (3) years' experience as a Nurse Practitioner

• Current active licensure in any state within the US required

• National Board Certification

• Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) license required or eligible to obtain within 90 days of hire

• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required

• Experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner (NP), Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) or experience in internal medicine, cardiology, Nephrology or Case Management

• Basic computer skills and experience with EHR required

• Must be able to travel by public transportation (eg. Trains, Airplanes, Subways, Ferry, etc.)

• Must have the ability to travel to member's visit location

• Must meet company driving standards

• Must have valid state driver license and be able to drive a car

• Must meet company's automobile liability insurance standards and provide proof of coverage

Preferred Qualifications

• Wound Care certification is a plus

• Demonstrated proficiency in clinical assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of complex chronic patients

• Excellent communicator, team builder, and results oriented

• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of data and managing to clinical, financial, and patient satisfaction outcomes

• Excels at developing and fostering strong patient and family relationships that center on engagement, trust, honesty, empathy, follow-through and doing what's best for the patient

• Preferred experience in internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, acute care, or ICU care

• Previous managerial experience

Physical/Environmental Demands

• Ability to reach overhead and side to side

• Lifting overheard and carrying of 10lbs routinely, 20 lbs sporadically

• Ability to sit, stand and kneel as needed to perform physical assessment

• Ability to grasp and hold medical instruments as needed to perform physical assessment

• Ability to navigate stairs and a variety of patients dwelling conditions and configurations

Annual Salary Range: $109,000.00-$136,000.00

Strive Health offers competitive compensation and benefits, including Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401k Retirement Plan with Employer Match, Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance, Disability insurance, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, paid company holidays, in addition to Vacation Time Off. An annual performance bonus, determined by company and individual performance, is available for many roles as aligned to Strive Health guidelines.

Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please apply even if you feel you do not meet all qualifications. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to talentacquisition@strivehealth.com