Nurse Practitioner (Part-Time, 1099), Blueberry Balance

The role

The Nurse Practitioner will be a frontline clinician on the Balance care team practicing under physician oversight. You will manage a panel of families by conducting intakes, reviewing labs, designing care plans, and prescribing GLP-1 therapy.

What you will do

• Complete comprehensive patient intake for adolescents
• Order appropriate labs and review results
• Meet with patients and families to design individualized care plans
• Prescribe and manage GLP-1 therapy where clinically appropriate
• Manage ongoing care including monitoring visits, dose management, and safety management
• Coordinate with physicians, registered dietitians, and health coaches
• Follow program clinical protocols and escalation pathways

Required qualifications

• Active, unrestricted Nurse Practitioner (APRN) license in good standing
• National board certification (e.g., FNP-BC/FNP-C or PNP-PC) appropriate to caring for adolescents
• Active prescriptive authority
• Willingness to obtain and maintain licensure and prescriptive authority in the states where Balance operates
• Comfort and credibility caring for adolescents and their families
• Interest in adolescent and obesity medicine
• Willingness to complete light onboarding training in weight/obesity management and GLP-1 therapy
• Availability of 20–80 hours per month
• Strong written communication
• Comfort operating in an asynchronous, distributed telehealth care team

Nice to have

• Obesity-medicine certification for advanced practice providers (or a clear path to gaining it)
• Prior experience prescribing or managing GLP-1 therapy
• Experience delivering care via telehealth
• Experience working alongside registered dietitians, behavioral health clinicians, and health coaches in a multidisciplinary model
• Multi-state licensure (or willingness to pursue it)
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) or experience serving linguistically diverse pediatric populations

About the company

Blueberry Balance is a virtual, pediatric-led metabolic health program for adolescents built by Blueberry Pediatrics. The company aims to provide affordable, near-instant clinic-level care through a holistic, family-centered model.