School-Based Advanced Practice Provider (APP)/(PA/APRN)/Department of Psychiatry/Child & Adolescent Division – Traverse Academy/Instructor - Senior Instructor

University of Colorado Anschutz

Department: School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Division

Job Title: School-Based Advanced Practice Provider (APP)/(PA/APRN)/Department of Psychiatry/Child & Adolescent Division – Traverse Academy/Instructor - Senior Instructor

Position #00851868 – Requisition #40783

Job Summary:

The Department of Psychiatry (DOP) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (DCAMH) invites applications for a School-Based PMHNP to provide direct patient care at Traverse Academy. Traverse Academy is a school-based intensive mental health treatment program within the Cherry Creek School District (CCSD). It will be an integrated school and intensive outpatient treatment center, including specialized transition programming, for students with significant and impairing emotional and/or behavioral disorders. The program is part of an effort to reduce risk for self-injurious behavior and suicide through collaborative school-academic partnerships and facilitate a smooth transition from intensive treatment to the student’s home school.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to apply and implement evidence-based approaches to care including using evidence based guidelines for prescriptions and monitoring medications in the pediatric population.

• Able to perform initial psychiatric diagnostic interviews, develop and follow through with treatment plans, and maintain timely and focused documentation through the electronic medical record.

• Providing preceptor experiences for APRN students with the appropriate experience and certification from the University of Colorado-Anschutz College of Nursing.

• Member of a multidisciplinary setting consisting of physicians, family therapists, psychologists, and trainees.

• Carry a case load on the outpatient psychiatric unit and in the partial hospitalization program.

• Please note, this is an open rank position and could be categorized as Instructor or Senior Instructor based on experience and qualifications as indicated below.

Work Location:

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO.

Why Join Us:

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education and patient care. The campus encompasses the University of Colorado health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked independent hospitals - UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital Colorado - that treat more than two million adult and pediatric patients each year. Innovative, interconnected and highly collaborative, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus delivers life-changing treatments, patient care and professional training and conducts world-renowned research fueled by over $757 million in research grants. For more information, visit www.cuanschutz.edu. 

The Department of Psychiatry is one of the largest units in the UCD-SOM and is comprised of 5 Divisions. Th