Advanced Practice Provider

Full-Time Advanced Practice Provider

Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) – Addiction Medicine

Full-Time | $120,000–$128,000 | Traverse City, Michigan | Hybrid Flexibility

Addiction Treatment Services (ATS) is seeking a compassionate and collaborative Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide medical care within our Withdrawal Management and residential substance use disorder treatment programs.

This is an opportunity to practice differently.

Our APP is an important part of an interdisciplinary team focused on helping people safely navigate withdrawal, stabilize medically, and move forward in recovery. The position combines on-site patient care with telehealth flexibility and limited evening on-call availability.

What You'll Do

The APP will serve as ATS's primary direct-care medical provider in collaboration with the Medical Director, nursing, clinical, and recovery-support teams.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide daily medical care and rounding within Withdrawal Management and residential services.
• Complete admission of medical assessments, histories and physicals, and other required evaluations within scope of practice.
• Assess and monitor patients experiencing withdrawal.
• Provide ongoing medical evaluation and required reassessments.
• Prescribe, adjust, discontinue, and manage medications within scope of practice.
• Provide medication-assisted treatment/medications for opioid use disorder when appropriately credentialed.
• Respond to nursing questions and changes in patient condition.
• Provide evening on-call support through telephone or telehealth when clinically appropriate.
• Coordinate care with hospitals, pharmacies, primary care providers, specialists, and community partners.
• Complete timely and accurate documentation, treatment orders, service-plan reviews, and required signatures.
• Participate in interdisciplinary treatment planning and clinical consultation.
• Collaborate closely with the Medical Director regarding complex patients, protocols, quality, and medical care.
• Support continuity of care as individuals transition between ATS programs and community providers.

These responsibilities reflect the APP functions identified in ATS's compliance review, including admission/H&P functions, withdrawal monitoring, medication management, 72-hour reassessments, residential medical support, MAT/MOUD and documentation.

What We're Looking For

• Current Michigan Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant license, or ability to obtain prior to employment.
• Prescriptive authority consistent with professional scope of practice.
• DEA registration/controlled-substance authority as appropriate to assigned responsibilities.
• Strong clinical judgment and ability to work independently while collaborating with a physician Medical Director.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Compassionate and respectful approach to individuals experiencing substance use disorders.
• Ability to work effectively with nursing and interdisciplinary behavioral health teams.
• Experience in addiction medicine, withdrawal management, behavioral health, emergency medicine, hospital medicine or similar settings preferred, but not required.

Why ATS?

This isn't a traditional outpatient practice with a large patient panel.

You'll work alongside nurses, clinicians, peers and other professionals who understand that treating substance use disorder requires both excellent medical care and human connection.

We offer:

• $120,000–$128,000 annual salary
• Comprehensive benefits
• Monday–Friday core schedule
• Hybrid/telehealth flexibility when appropriate
• Collaborative physician Medical Director support
• Focused addiction-medicine practice
• Meaningful clinical work without a traditional primary-care panel
• A team-based environment
• Opportunity to help shape an evolving medical-care model
• A mission centered on recovery, dignity and access to treatment

We are also open to discussing schedule flexibility with the right candidate.