Psychiatric APRN – Community Mental Health

Description

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Schedule: Full-Time

Setting: Field-Based (ACT Team)

Benefits

• Low-cost medical, dental, and vision coverage. Health savings account. 403b retirement plan with employer match (50% match up to 3%).
• Employee Assistance Program for all employees
• 33 paid days off: 11 observed paid holidays, 12 sick days, and 10 vacation days to start. Vacation increases to 12 days after 1 year, 15 days after 2 years, and more at 5 and 9 years of service.
  • Sick and vacation time accrue hourly per pay period.
• $50,000 in employer-paid life insurance; additional coverage available.
• Employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (paid quarterly).
• Employee Referral Program including cash bonuses and paid time off.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligible.

About

Volunteers of America, Utah (VOA Utah) is part of a national, nonprofit, faith-based human services organization. Volunteers of America, Utah provides community-supported paths for those who are vulnerable to improve their lives and increase their self-reliance. In alignment with our mission, we encourage individuals with lived experience to apply. We recognize that a person’s life experiences can provide firsthand knowledge relevant to being successful in the work that we do.

Join Volunteers of America, Utah, as a Psychiatric APRN on our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team—a nationally recognized, evidence-based model that delivers care where it's needed most: in the homes and neighborhoods of people with serious mental illness (SMI). This is not your typical clinic job
. If you're passionate about high-impact, human-centered care, we want to hear from you.

Volunteers of America, Utah's ACT Team members directly provide services that are individually tailored with each client and address their specific preferences and goals. The approach with each client emphasizes the relationship building and active involvement in assisting clients to make improvements in functioning, to better manage symptoms, to achieve individual goals and to maintain optimism.

• Provide psychiatric assessments, medication management
  , and clinical oversight to individuals living with SMI
• Deliver care in community and home-based settings alongside a multidisciplinary ACT team
• Build long-term therapeutic relationships and help clients stay out of the hospital
• Participate in crisis intervention, team planning
  , and recovery-focused care coordination
• Enjoy autonomy
  , but never isolation—work with a supportive psychiatrist and clinical team

• Licensed APRN in Utah (or ability to obtain) with prescriptive authority
• At least 1 year of psychiatric experience
  —inpatient or community mental health preferred
• Comfortable working in field settings and with clients facing complex behavioral health challenges
• Clear communication, sound clinical judgment, and strong documentation skills
• Must be 21+, pass a drug screen and background check
  , and have a valid driver’s license

Essential Duties:

• Collaborate with the team leader, psychiatrist, and entire Assertive Community Treatment team in sharing overall clinical responsibility for monitoring consumer treatment and take a lead role in coordinating and providing the team’s medication administration services
• Conduct psychiatric assessments including psychiatric history (e.g., onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnoses; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living; family structure and relationships; and physical health, making appropriate referrals to community physicians as necessary
• Prescribe psychotropic medications; conduct regular assessments of therapeutic responses and side effects; and educate clients and non-medical staff on medications and their side effects
• Be actively involved in both acute and long-term psychiatric inpatient treatment of clients
• Provide on-call crisis intervention
• Works with consumers and staff to develop and implement person-centered individual treatment plans that address psychiatric issues and align with…