Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (Aprn)

Are you looking for the best place to work? Join Addiction Recovery Care, LLC (ARC) which was selected as one of the 2024 Best Places to Work in Kentucky by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, based on surveys of our employees!

Are you passionate about serving in an environment of shared purpose and shared goals while driving the ARC mission and values to excellence for our clients, patients and team members? ARC has been leading the way and has become one of the fastest growing healthcare systems in Kentucky (and beyond!) in addiction treatment, mental health services and improving lives by creating opportunities for people to discover hope and live their God-given destiny!

ARC is ready to offer you “The B.E.S.T. of ARC” (Balance, Energy, Safety, Training) on day 1 when you enter through our doors. ARC is a thriving, dynamic, and fast-paced healthcare system environment where compassion, accountability, respect for the dignity of life, entrepreneurship, and stewardship are key elements of every thing we do!

We are hiring a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner for our growing team! The Nurse Practitioner will be a key member of our medical team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation to behavioral health care managers (CMs). These consultations focus primarily on clients who are new to treatment or who are not improving as expected and are typically done by telephone, telehealth, or in person.
• Maintain professional cell phone account and provide occasional telephonic consultation to primary care providers (PCPs) as needed, focusing on clients in the CMs caseload. Respond to telephone calls from primary care providers and CMs within one business day. Respond to urgent telephone calls within one hour, if available.
• Provide telehealth mental health assessments for clients referred for specialty mental health care by primary care team staff.
• Conduct therapy, medication assessments, and crisis response for new and existing clients. Develops individual treatment plans based upon assessment data, and provide therapeutic interventions as necessary including the provision of on-going medication management services.
• Maintain documentation of services including treatment plans, progress notes,
  medication informed consent, quarterly treatment plan reviews, and other required
  information in compliance with ARC policies and compliance standards.
• Maintain professional email accounts for contact during usual business hours. Check professional email account daily and respond to email questions/consultations within two business days, sooner if urgent.
• Work with assigned CMs to track and oversee their client panels and clinical outcomes using an electronic medical records that tracks clinical processes and patient outcomes.
• Suggest treatment plan changes, including medication recommendations, for clients who are not improving as expected.
• Use a population-focused registry to document recommendations for treatment and/or referrals within 24 hours of consulting with a CM so that they can be easily shared with PCPs and other treating providers.
• When possible, visit each ARC center to meet center providers and discuss ongoing collaboration.

The above is intended to be a general outline of job duties and not a complete list.

Key Experience and Education Needed:

• Kentucky-licensed Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.
• Willingness to make treatment recommendations to primary care team.
• Kentucky Medicaid enrollment preferred
• Experience with primary care psychiatry or consultation-liaison psychiatry.
• DATA 2000 waiver.

Other Qualifications to be Considered:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Positive, flexible, and solution-focused attitude.
• Ability to quickly synthesize medical and psychiatric data and formulate effective and evidence-based clinical recommendations.
• Ability to interact with staff in a professional manner.
• Ability to coordinate and manage multiple tasks with attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle crisis situations in a calm and supportive manner
• Ability to exhibit professional and courteous behavior, consistent with the ARC mission statement, when interacting with persons of varying backgrounds and education levels to create a safe and healthy relationship with clients served

ARC full-time employees enjoy very attractive benefits packages for employees and their families to include health, dental, vision, life insurance, a wide array of ancillary insurance products for life’s needs, 401(k) plan with company matching and to ensure the work-life balance - generous paid vacation, sick, holiday and maternity/paternity leave policies.

Come join ARC and transform lives anchored in strong family relationships, social responsibility and meaningful career paths by empowering our nationally recognized crisis to career model!

Addiction Recovery Care, LLC and its affiliated entities are an equal opportunity employer.

ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

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