POSITION SUMMARY: Full-time with benefits, 30 billable hrs per week. The psychiatric outpatient provider is a nurse practitioner or physician assistant who provides direct psychiatric care to outpatient clients at the practice. Meets regularly with patients of all ages for medication management. This practitioner should be comfortable seeing pediatric clients. The medication management provider serves as a member of the clinical team, supporting the company's mission and high standards of client care.

Major Accountabilities

• Provide evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of a variety of psychiatric medical conditions.
• Provide direct psychiatric services to patients, including prescribing medications
• Collaborates with psychotherapists around treatment as needed
• Communicates effectively and regularly with referral sources and outside agencies to provide exceptional continuity of care
• Prepares for and attends all assigned meetings and trainings
• Ensures that all required clinical documentation is completed within required timeframe and meets all quality-of-care expectations and regulatory standards
• Ensures compliance with ethical practice, organization policiesand procedures, regulatory agencies and any assigned performance improvement activities
• Establishes inter-referral relationships with community sources
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Specific Skills:

• Knowledge of short term/stabilization mental health treatment
• Knowledge of acute adult, adolescent and child psychological disorders and relevant pharmacological treatment of those disorders
• Strong clinical assessment skills; strong ability to develop appropriate treatment plans for short-term psychiatric stabilization
• Ability to maintain professional and collaborative relationships with patients, patients’ family members, staff and community personnel
• Ability to process ideas and implement changes quickly and independently
• Ability to develop therapeutic relationships quickly and effectively with patients and families and engage them in the therapeutic process
• Ability to provide virtual/telehealth mental health care, as needed
• Ability to maintain patient confidentiality and high ethical standards
• Ability to set appropriate clinical boundaries and expectations with clients
• Ability to maintain appropriate medical record documentation for all therapeutic services
• Working knowledge of empirically supported treatments
• Maintains professional licensure, required collaborative relationship, and completes continuing education or training requirements as mandated by credentialing agencies

General Skills and Requirements:

• Warm, genuine, empathetic
• Exceptional English verbal and written language skills.
• Demonstrates competency and sensitivity in the area of multi-cultural, racial, religious/spiritual, gender identity, and sexual orientation issues
• High degree of self-motivation and ability to multitask; demonstrates organizational, time management, problem-solving and self-management skills
• Ability to maintain safe treatment environment, e.g., keeping locking doors closed
• Personable, reliable, flexible and demonstrates critical thinking skills
• Competency using EMR systems, Microsoft Outlook, and other electronic platforms
• Meets dress code standards; appearance is professional, neat and clean
• Evaluates own performance and sees opportunities for growth
• Strong interpersonal and professional boundaries
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled and wears identification while on duty
• Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner
• Adheres to company policies and procedures

Qualifications:

• Nurse Practitioner, with certification through appropriate accrediting organization required
• Active and valid DEA license, required.
• North Carolina State Licensure to practice independently in field with prescriptive authority
• Master’s degree
• Outside supervision with a credentialed supervisor (MD/DO) required.

Experience:

• Two (2) or more years of previous independent practice, with an emphasis in psychiatric work preferred.

Other Certification:

• Current active BLS/First Aid certification
• Current North Carolina Driver’s License

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Psychiatry

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work setting:

• In-person
• Outpatient
• Private practice

Application Question(s):

• Please share about your interest and/or experience working at this level of care (outpatient).
• Please share your years and type of experience as a nurse practitioner or in another role.

License/Certification:

• license to practice independently in North Carolina? (Required)

Work Location: In person