Advanced Practice Provider - Correctional Health

Position: Advanced Practice Provider I - Correctional Health
Location:

Jail Main Clinic

Parkland Health is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider to join our Correctional Health team at the Lew Sterrett Correctional Facility. We're looking for someone with a strong background in family medicine, acute care, or women's health who brings flexibility and adaptability to the role. Candidates with primarily psychiatric experience may not be the best fit for this opportunity.
The position offers a rotating 12 hour night shift schedule from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., including weekdays, weekends, and holidays. The ideal candidate is comfortable working in a correctional health environment, takes initiative, and works well with others to deliver quality patient care.

Primary Purpose

Responsible for providing health care for patients in designated primary or specialty area, including patient diagnoses, treatment, education and referrals. Serves as a resource and role model for clinical practice, training, evaluation and direct management of practitioners and students in all areas encompassed by the service line to ensure optimal patient care quality. Assist leadership in assessing, planning, organizing, and implementing designated advanced practice provider activities.

Minimum Specifications

Education

- Physician Assistant:
Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university and successful completion of an accredited Physician Assistant Program recognized by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) or its predecessors.

- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN):
Master's degree in nursing accredited through the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. (ACEN).

Experience
- None

Equivalent

Education and/or Experience
- Current employees hired at Parkland before 3/1/2014, may have an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certification/Registration/Licensure
- Must have current healthcare provider BLS for Healthcare Providers certification from one of the following:
- American Heart Association
- American Red Cross
- Military Training Network

- Physician Assistant:
- Current, valid Physician Assistant licensure from the Texas Board of Physician Assistants.
- Current certification as a Physician Assistant by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Nurse Practitioner):
- Current RN licensure from the Texas Board of Nursing; or, valid Compact RN license.
- Current licensure from the Texas Board of Nursing as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with authorization to practice as a Family, Adult, Gerontology, Adult-Gerontology, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care, Acute Care, Pediatric, Pediatric Acute Care, Psychiatric Mental Health or Women's Health Nurse Practitioner.
- Must have active certification as Nurse Practitioner by one of the following:
- Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) by American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) ' OR '
- Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) by ANCC or AANPCP ' OR '
- Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (GNP) by ANCC or AANPCP ' OR '
- Adult-Gerontology-Primary Care Nurse Practitioner by ANCC or AANPCP 'OR'
- Adult-Gerontology-Acute Care Nurse Practitioner by ANCC or American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Certification Corporation (AACNCC) 'OR
- - Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) by ANCC or AACNCC ' OR
- - Pediatric Nurse Practitioner ' Primary Care (PNP-PC or PPCNP) by Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB) or ANCC 'OR
- - Pediatric Nurse Practitioner ' Acute Care (PNP-AC) by PNCB 'OR
- - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) by ANCC or AANPCP - OR
- Women's Health Nurse…