Nurse Health Consultant

Come work along-side a growing, top-notch company providing outpatient psychiatric care near Denver, Colorado! 

$28-35/hr, work hours are flexible and can be adjusted over time, work from home!
This is a contractor position.


Why love this opportunity?

• Flexible daytime hours that you choose
• Choose your workspace - work is by phone or telehealth
• We handle all of our clients’ billing, scheduling, and admin paperwork, and we pay you directly. Very easy to step in and get started!
• Outstanding collaboration with a well-run company
• Excellent patients motivated to get well

Bloom Mental Health is a high-end, outpatient psychiatric provider based in Littleton, Colorado. We provide the very best evidence-based treatments for our patients, and combine holistic care with medication management to achieve it. 

Bloom is looking for nurses to help call adult and pediatric patients between their psychiatric visits and answer routine questions they may have, help them track their symptoms, and help them coordinate with therapists and other practitioners in the community.  

Ideal partners are friendly, understand mental health, and want to assist the psychiatrist in helping our patients achieve the prescribed treatment plan. Nurses must be comfortable discussing concerns around medication side effects, triaging for any signs of worsening illness, reaching out to other providers in the community, and coordinating emergency help if needed (eg calling crisis services).

Work is flexible in terms of number of clients you want to take on. We prefer that applicants maintain specific times during the week in which they can be available for phone appointments, as this helps us to efficiently schedule.


Specific Requirements:

• This is a contractor position. The applicant must have their own training and equipment to accomplish the work, including malpractice insurance, phone, computer, webcam, high quality internet connection, and a quiet place from which to make calls to patients, as well as any licensure, certifications, continuing education, and training needed to perform this work. We do expect applicants to already be familiar with assisting mental health clients and have a style they are comfortable with (see more details below), we do not provide training for this. 
• As a contractor, either party (you or us) may terminate your work with us at any time, for any reason. We will generally give 30 days notice of termination unless there are safety or other acute concerns. 
• Applicant must maintain a valid active license to practice nursing in the state of Colorado, and must understand and agree to practice within their scope of practice (eg as per the Nurse Practice Act).
• Applicant must notify us of any past or pending actions taken against them that could in any way impact their ability to perform this work.
• Applicant must be familiar with patient privacy rules (eg HIPAA) and agree to maintain privacy at all times.

Specific Duties and Details:

• Provide telephone or telehealth triage care to patients within the scope of standard nursing practice and protocols
• Assist in assessing, planning, implementing, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the treatment plan prescribed by the psychiatrist. You have wide latitude in using your own style and methods in helping the clients, we evaluate success based on if our clients are happy with services, and are able to move forward in their treatment plan goals. 
• We ask that applicants have accessibility during regular business hours (9 to 5) if we need to discuss any questions or concerns. 
• Assess patients for clinical symptoms or side effects, administer clinical rating scales, and coordinate additional care as needed
• Provide clear, understandable explanations of the treatment plan, including instructions on the indication for medications, as well as counseling about possible side effects
• Triage urgent concerns and ensure emergency services are contacted when needed (we have emergency protocols we will share with you) 
• Work with our scheduling team to ensure patients have follow up appointments as needed
• Use a computer and EHR (we use Practice Fusion) to document patient encounters and any other requests/activities, documenting all patient encounters in the same day (so that we can follow up with the client in a timely manner)
• Be willing to interact with Bloom and/or its clients and contractors to review the quality of your work, eg through review of scheduling efficiency, your notes, or through live or recorded phone calls, or to review feedback from patients, to ensure patient interactions meet our quality standards. 
• Payment is typically for consultation time with the patient and time you spend performing activities on their behalf (eg calling a pharmacy or other consultants), and not for other ancillary discussions (eg calling us to discuss work-related matters).
• We do not reimburse for time spent outside of patient care activities that are billed to the patient, ie any learning or setup time you spend related to the work (such as technical troubleshooting, ensuring your phone and computer work with our system, etc)
• We assume that you already know how to perform the technical, clinical, and care coordination functions of this contractor position, and will not insist that you adopt our particular style in how you interact with patients. Instead, we will review the feedback from our employees, associates, and clients as an ongoing assessment of whether you are sufficiently able to help our clients achieve their treatment plan, and whether your stylistic approach is the right fit for us. We love discussing best-practice ways to help our clients but cannot guarantee that we will have availability to provide our thoughts and suggestions if you or we determine that you may need more education or assistance in order to be effective in assisting this practice. In such cases, we may suggest that you consider outside education and/or discuss whether this work or a particular kind of clientele is a good fit for you.

Bloom is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants are reviewed without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other protected status.