Nurse Practitioner - Pediatrics

Salt Lake City, UT

Specialty Pediatrics
Profession Nurse Practitioner

When you join us, youll become a part of a top-ranked Childrens Hospital dedicated to our mission of The Child, First and Always.

About this role:

Opportunity for a Pediatric Psychiatry Advance Practice Provider to join our team of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals committed to providing quality pediatric behavioral healthcare. This APP will focus their practice in our adolescent partial hospitalization program, located on campus of our newly-built Primary Childrens Behavioral Health Center in Taylorsville, Utah.

1+ year APP experience in a pediatric behavioral health setting

The Pediatric Psychiatry APP will generally work 40 hours per week, with expectation for weekday day shifts in the PHP, with opportunity to cover our inpatient unit six weekends per year.

Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's best children's hospitals in 11 of 11 pediatric specialties, including behavioral health.

How we'll support you:

We care about your well-being which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package. In addition, we offer paid time off, license reimbursement, student loan assistance, malpractice insurance coverage, and an annual CME allowance to support your continuous growth and development.? Learn more about our?comprehensive benefits package.

What youll bring:

  • For Nurse Practitioners:
    • PMHNP-BC certification required
    • MSN or DNP with a Post graduate certificate in psychiatry/mental health (if primary specialty other is not psychiatry)
  • For Physician Assistants:
    • Obtain and maintain a Certification of Added Qualification in psychiatry issued by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants
    • Complete
      • An accredited doctorate level academic program for physician assistants approved by the division in collaboration with the board
      • A post-graduate certificate program for physician assistants to practice within psychiatric and mental health care that is approved by the division in collaboration with the board; or
      • A post-graduate residency in psychiatry and additional clinical practice or coursework in accordance with requirements approved by the division in collaboration with the board; and
      • A minimum of 10,000 hours of clinical practice in mental health
  • Additional Requirement:
    • Active, unobstructed Utah medical license (or the ability to obtain)
    • BLS certification and DEAregistration
    • Ability to successfully complete Intermountain Healths credentialing process
    • Visa sponsorship considered on a case-by-case basis

About us:

Intermountain Health is a model health system providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost. We are an integrated not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, and a medical group with more than 5,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across seven states in the mountain west.

Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us. Learn more about our Mission, Vision, and Values at: About Intermountain.

What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Health?

It means joining the Power of We, building an environment where providers and caregivers can deliver the best in healthcare. Realizing each caregiver and volunteer is vital to providing care to our patients, because WE can only achieve the extraordinary together. Committed to the best in research and most advanced technology, the results are better clinical patient outcomes.