ARNP - Community Mental Health

Career opportunities abound at SOUND
SOUND Behavioral Health is growing, and we are hiring an ARNP or Physician Assistant in King County, WA!

SOUND is one of King County’s most comprehensive providers of quality mental health and addiction treatment services, supporting our area’s most vulnerable populations. A central tenet of our work is Reaching Recovery, an evidence-based clinical care model.

This position is a professional-level position intended to provide psychiatric services in our agency through the prescribing and monitoring of medications, evaluation of psychiatric status, and consultation to non-medical team members. This is primarily a clinical position, and incumbents will spend the majority of their time seeing patients, with the same productivity standards and same scheduling guidelines as physicians.

This position is a part-time position that is split between our Auburn and Bellevue clinics.

Schedule: Part-time, benefits-eligible, 32 hours per week. Four 8-hour shifts per week from 8:00am-5:00pm on weekdays.

Location: Split between our Bellevue Clinic (13555 Bel-Red Road Suite 228 Bellevue, Washington 98005) and Auburn Clinic (4238 Auburn Way N Auburn, Washington 98002).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES

• Independently evaluate patients for the purpose of determining a differential, psychiatric diagnosis, and biopsychosocial case formulation.
• Assess patients for psychiatric/psychotropic medication necessity.
• Prescribe the psychiatric or psychotropic medications, which are within his/her licensing purview.
• Coordinate with program manager in assigned programs to facilitate integration of medical issues with overall treatment planning
• Screen patients for concurrent non-psychiatric medical conditions and refer for appropriate care.
• Order all appropriate laboratory tests to determine a differential diagnosis and assure safe prescription of medications.
• Assess for medication side effects and treat when appropriate, following guidelines set by accepted professional standards and any other applicable standards of care.
• Consult with the treatment teams or other agency and non-agency providers on issues related to an individual patient's treatment and overall treatment planning. Liaison with primary care physicians and their staff.
• Attend and participate in medical staff meetings, as required.
• Obtain supervision, consultation or guidance by an agency psychiatrist or the medical director in cases as needed.
• Maintain clinical records in accordance with agency policy.
• Perform other functions, e.g. teaching, supervision of nursing staff and students, inter- and interagency committee responsibilities, as assigned. These responsibilities may include the provision of group staff consultations without the presence of a staff psychiatrist.
• Understand recovery concepts in behavioral health.
• Apply recovery concepts, as appropriate to clinical work at Sound.
• Synthesize and demonstrate recovery concepts in clinical work at Sound.

KEY WORK RELATIONSHIPS

Establishes and maintains positive, ethical, and professional working relationships with clinical team members, clients, and outside organizations. Relates to a wide variety of people, including members of ethnic and sexual minority populations, and is respectful of individual and cultural differences.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

At least two (2) years of previous experience prescribing psychotropic medications is required
, preferably in a community mental health setting.

Applicants without psychotropic prescribing experience must have completed the PMHNP or PA program that first made them eligible for board certification no more than 18 months prior to the date of application.

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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

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