Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant - Director of Advanced Practice Behavioral Health

As a part of Duke Health Integrated Practice, you will enjoy competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits plans, convenient work hours, and many opportunities for career advancement. Become a part of a team that values and invests in you.

• The nation’s first Physician Assistant Program was created at Duke in 1965 and is consistently ranked No. 1 in the country.
• The Duke School of Nursing is consistently ranked as one of the top nursing schools and their MSN and DNP programs offers eight advanced practice registered nurse majors and specialty certifications, as well as post master's certificates and certification alignment programs.
• Commitment to ongoing learning for APPs through annual CME funding and access to high-quality Duke CME offerings including APP Grand Rounds and a professional advancement program. APPs are leaders in multiple arenas within Duke.
• Duke offers APPs opportunities to practice within team based integrative care in a tremendous variety of specialties. APPs are expected to work to top of scope in order to contribute to Duke's missions which include clinical practice, education, and research.
• Practice locations can include Duke Health's four hospitals or over 140 primary care and specialty care clinics throughout North Carolina.

Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC

Duke Regional Hospital, Durham, NC

Duke Behavioral Health North Durham Clinic

Duke Raleigh Hospital, Raleigh, NC

The Director of Advanced Practice for Behavioral Health is responsible for establishing best practices for Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) and aligning their role across the continuum of behavioral health care delivery within DHIP and DUHS. Behavioral health services span inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department settings across Duke Health.

This role leads the integration and deployment of APPs across interprofessional teams to enhance access, quality, safety, and operational performance in behavioral health services, including ambulatory psychiatry, inpatient care, emergency services, and interventional psychiatry.

In collaboration with executive and medical leadership, the Director advances APP practice through improvements in clinical service delivery, competency, productivity, and workforce optimization.

• Collaborate to design new Interprofessional practices, manage hiring and onboarding process:
  • Work with department leadership to design and implement practice models
  • Work with Dept/Div to develop job descriptions, write practice agreements with Supervising MDs
  • Guide recruitment eorts
  • Serve as resource for hiring, onboarding and credentialing of new APPs
  • Work with medical and administrative leadership to design clinical orientation
  • Support orientation for APPs
  • Provide practice metrics and consulting to optimize practice models
• Models of care:
  Serves as expert resource in the utilization of APPs across multiple environments. Accountable for setting vision, identies existing and emerging practice models and is accountable for the integration of emerging practice models in the overall strategic plan of the organization; assesses job satisfaction and retention of the APP workforce.
• Provide leadership to APP Leadership Council. Facilitates communication with Team Leads and APPs on current and relevant practice matters and policies.
• Advise on maintenance of safe and eective clinical practice of APPs.
• Compliance:
  Designs and implements process ows for ensuring compliance for APPs. Collaborates with compliance ocers, legal and risk management to ensure that all APPs comply with state and federal mandates. Ensures licensure, certication and regulatory compliance with NC law and State Boards of Nursing and Medicine.
• Makes recommendations on course of action regarding unsatisfactory employee performance including corrective actions, performance improvement plans, peer reviews and terminations.
• Onboarding:
  Works with human resources, the oce of integration and departmental administration, coordinates key and central elements of an APP orientation program for the onboarding of all APPs.
• Legislative and Health Policy Issues for APPs:
  Establishes relationships with key stakeholders including legal, compliance, HR and State Boards, assesses for best practices and national changes for APP practice acts, ensuring that changes are communicated and incorporated into practices.
• Financial:
  Works with Departmental Administrators and Finance, evaluates APPs billing…