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