NURSE Practitioner PSYCH - Part Time

Job Details:

Job Location:

ANCHORAGE, AK 99503,

The purpose of this position is to provide high quality psychiatric services in an integrated care program within the scope of family medicine utilizing a team-based model. Psychiatric Clinician collaborates with Primary Care Physicians and Behavioral Health Consultants. The Psychiatric Clinician provides psycho-pharmacotherapy for primary care patients and psychiatrist consultation for other providers in an ambulatory care or telehealth clinic setting.

• Determines nature and extent of mental health or substance use disorder and formulates treatment program in collaboration with treatment team.
• Actively participates in meetings that support ANHC’s integrated health care model to provide comprehensive care for clients.
• Provide sound and ethical pharmacotherapy.
• Monitor progress in regard to pharmacotherapy.
• Monitor all needed labs and laboratory findings in order to provide holistic care (combination of mental and physical health).
• Provide psychopharmacologic approaches to meet client issues.
• Provide emotional supportive techniques to clients during medical clinic appointments.
• Provide information and opinions from psychopharmacotherapy point of view to any problems discussed in Treatment Team.
• Maintain patient confidentiality.
• Provides appropriate professional psychiatric services consistent with your professional training and ability within health centers scope of service.
• Comply with organizations policy, procedure, processes and clinical guidelines.
• Participates in Peer Review and Quality Improvement/Quality Assurance activities, provider meetings and other meeting as required to be an active corporate citizen of the organization.
• Prescribes psycho-pharmacological medications in accordance with national, state and clinic guidelines, and collaborative practice agreements.
• Develops and implements patient care plans, instructs and counsels patients, and records progress.
• Refers patients for consultative services as may be required for the patient’s well-being or plan of care.
• Works a regularly planned clinic schedule and works with other clinic staff to optimize patient access to care.
• As an employee of a federally qualified health center, the Psychiatric Clinician will see all scheduled patients regardless of race, ethnicity, social or economic designation and will demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and needs.
• Responsible for accurate, timely, and complete documentation in patient records. Responds to requests from coding and billing staff in a timely manner.
• Responsible for timely addressing patient requests and tasks.
• Participates in after-hours call services as designated.
• Arrange for cross coverage of tasking inbox/paperwork when out of the office.
• Keeps customer service and the mission of the organization in mind when interacting with all clients, co-workers, and others.

• Performs therapeutic procedures, such as immunizations and injections.

ANHC’s Mission, Vision and Values:
Actively supports ANHC’s mission, vision and values. Includes using individual skills to add value to the mission:
To be a trusted partner in every person’s wellness by providing integrated, compassionate, and high-quality health care, regardless of ability to pay; and vision:
Accessible care for a healthy Anchorage. Aligns actions around organizational values of RESPECT, COMPASSION, PERSONAL INTEGRITY, EXCELLENCE and COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT and gives priority to organizational mission, vision and values when making decisions.

Accountability:
Takes ownership for delivering on commitments; owns mistakes and uses them as opportunities for…