[Hiring] Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner @Cerula Care

Role Description

We're looking for a psychiatric nurse practitioner to serve as the consulting psychiatric provider for our Colorado patient panel. In the Collaborative Care Model, you are the psychiatric expertise behind the team — reviewing caseloads with our Behavioral Health Care Managers, recommending medication and treatment plans, and seeing a small number of patients directly via telehealth when a case calls for it.

This is a part-time, flexible contract role (roughly 8–10 hours per week) built for a clinician who wants meaningful, high-leverage work alongside an existing practice or schedule. All work is conducted via telehealth.

What You'll Do

• Provide systematic caseload review with Behavioral Health Care Managers during weekly interdisciplinary team meetings, prioritizing patients who are not improving.
• Recommend evidence-based medication and treatment plans to referring oncologists and primary care providers, documented in the patient registry.
• Conduct direct psychiatric evaluations and medication management visits via telehealth for patients requiring specialty assessment.
• Prescribe and manage psychotropic medications with attention to oncologic treatment interactions, symptom burden, and goals of care.
• Serve as the escalation point for clinical questions from the care team, including risk and safety concerns.
• Support identification of patients needing a higher level of care and facilitate appropriate referrals.
• Contribute to clinical protocols, treatment pathways, and quality improvement as our Colorado program grows.
• Maintain timely, HIPAA-compliant documentation in our clinical systems.

Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted Colorado APRN license as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) with full Colorado prescriptive authority.
• Active DEA registration with Colorado state controlled substance authority.
• Board certification through ANCC (PMHNP-BC).
• Master's or Doctoral degree from an accredited psychiatric mental health NP program.
• Minimum three years of independent psychiatric prescribing experience with adult populations.
• Comfort practicing via telehealth and working from an electronic patient registry.
• Ability to work collaboratively as a consultant to a care team rather than as a solo practitioner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensure in additional states.
• Experience in psycho-oncology, palliative care, or with medically complex patients.
• Familiarity with the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM).
• Experience in a startup or rapidly scaling clinical environment.
• Spanish fluency.

Location

• Remote (Colorado licensure required).

Type

• Part-time, independent contractor (1099) — approximately 8–10 hours per week.

Compensation

• $115–$145 per hour, commensurate with experience. This is a 1099 independent contractor engagement; benefits are not included.