Mgr Advanced Practice Behavioral Health ​/ Acute Care Services

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The manager of advanced practice providers serves as the practice leader/advocate for the advanced practice providers in the acute behavioral health services and is structured as 0.6 FTE clinical and 0.4 FTE administrative. The Manager works to promote a people first culture, clinical excellence and accomplish organizational and departmental strategic initiatives. The Manager works to support the delivery of quality medical and nursing care through clinical practice.

The Manager is a clinical/systems resource for patient, family, and health care providers, who utilizes advanced practice skills for consultation, collaboration, education, leadership, and research. The Manager of Advanced Practice Providers focuses on the APP's clinical practice, as well as the development, analysis, and improvement of systems that impact the division(s) they are responsible for.

• Manages and provides direction for leading, training and hiring:
  Selects/hires team members and trains and/or oversees the training on job related tasks. Provides oversight for the APP team, guiding coaching and mentoring each member. Makes salary recommendations. Submits notifications for personnel actions (e.g., status changes, terminations). Makes recommendations for human resource needs.
• Operational/Financial Management:
  Responsible for assisting and implementation of business plans and operational budgeting. Provides oversight to APP productivity and supports the leadership team in monitoring financial reports & making strategic decisions based on data and strategic planning.
• Clinical Care:
  In collaboration with physicians, assesses patient, synthesizes and analyzes data, develops plan of care, orders diagnostic tests and therapeutic treatments and evaluates clinical outcomes according to individualized
  * patient needs/age specific standards. As the Manger of Advanced Practice Providers will work with Division(s) Chief and Medical Director to ensure consistent clinical practice within the APP team, continuously evaluating practice.
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  * Individualized refers to the patient's developmental, cognitive, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, and educational/family influences and physical/medical care needs.)
  • Completes an accurate assessment of patients within assigned specialty.
  • Identifies appropriate medical diagnoses, and documents plan of care in progress notes.
  • Utilizes appropriate diagnostic tests related to patient condition and demonstrates ability to interpret the diagnostic tests.
  • Synthesizes and analyzes data obtained through assessment to develop a comprehensive plan of care that is individualized and reflects patient care needs including interventions and treatments to attain expected outcomes.
  • Implements plan by writing appropriate medical orders in accordance with medical practice standards and/or jointly approved protocols.
  • Evaluates and revises plan as indicated by changes in patient condition or needs.
  • Communicates daily medical plan/updates to patients/parents, medical team involved, and other interdisciplinary team members.
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