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.
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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
- Parent and Caregivers
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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
- Sick time off
- Companywide wellbeing days
- Two comprehensive EAPs and a variety of mental health tools
- Volunteer time off
- Leave packages including a sabbatical, parental leave and eight weeks paid for living donor
- Professional development
- Financial wellness resources
- Carrot Fertility and Peloton for all Strivers
- We like to have fun by celebrating our successes as a team through team building, company gatherings, experiential incentives, core value awards, a companywide book club and more.
- We value tenacity to help us overcome obstacles with grit and determination to deliver compassionate kidney care.
We frequently hire for this role in this market, and we're continuously looking for talented future Strivers. Communication on next steps from our team may be delayed depending on open role availability. We appreciate your interest and will contact you if your qualifications align with an immediate or future opportunity.
What You’ll Do
As part of Strive’s interdisciplinary clinical care team, the Nurse Practitioner (NP) will utilize their advanced education, skills, and judgment to deliver advanced nursing care for CKD and ESKD patients. The NP will be responsible for managing patient care by working with the Strive interdisciplinary team of social workers, care coordinators, pharmacists, dietitians, and physicians to provide best in class patient care. The Strive NP 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. This position reports to the Lead, Nurse Practitioner.
The Day To Day
- Accountable for patient outcomes and KPI’s for a panel of CKD and ESKD patients. Collaborates with external providers to ensure goals, treatment, and care plan alignment.
- Obtains patient history, performs physical exam, orders and interprets diagnostic tests and formulates a plan for individual patient short-term and longitudinal needs.
- Presents patient cases and provides clinical support for clinical rounds and interdisciplinary team meetings.
- Ensures assessment and plan of care incorporate best practices for chronic kidney care including CKD clinical care (management of all stages of CKD, co-morbidities, ESKD and support of transitions to renal replacement therapy, transplant, or conservative care) as well as participation in shared decision-making and end-of-life/advanced care planning discussions.
- Serves patients and performs patient visits in multiple care settings as defined by role, including patient home, clinics (where applicable), partner MD space (where applicable), and via telehealth/virtual visits.
- Serves as a liaison with dialysis facilities, PCPs, and nephrologists, providing care plan updates to help streamline the transitions in care.
- Responsible for maintaining current board certification and state-specific continuing education requirements.
- Adheres to expectations outlined in Strive’s documentation policy
- Deliver primary and urgent care visits to adult and geriatric patients with history of chronic kidney disease (in designated markets)
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Nursing or similar field.
- 2+ years experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner (NP), Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (NP), or experience in internal medicine, cardiology, Nephrology or Case Management.
- Current state specific licensure required.
- National Board Certification.
- Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) license required or eligible to obtain within 90 days of hire.
- Current BLS or CPR Certification required.
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Efficient and reliable transportation allowing for the ability to travel across an assigned region to meet patient needs. Locations may include offices, clinics, and patient homes.
- Provides in-person patient care which may include standing, sitting, walking, pushing, pulling, and lifting.
- Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms.
Preferred Qualifications
- Basic computer and Microsoft Office skills.
- 2+ years experience with Electronic Health Records (EHR) preferred.
- Wound Care certification preferred.
- Experience using audio-visual technology platforms.
About You
- Demonstrated proficiency in clinical assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of complex chronic patients.
- Excellent communicator, team builder, and evidence of results.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of data and managing clinical, financial, and patient satisfaction outcomes.
- Excels at developing and fostering strong patient and family relationships that center on engagement, trust, honesty, empathy, follow-through and doing what’s best for the patient.
Annual Salary Range: $118,000.00-$147,000.00
Strive Health offers competitive compensation and benefits, including Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401k Retirement Plan with Employer Match, Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance, Disability insurance, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, paid company holidays, in addition to Vacation Time Off. An annual performance bonus, determined by company and individual performance, is available for many roles as aligned to Strive Health guidelines.
Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please apply even if you feel you do not meet all qualifications. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]
