Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant

About the role

This position is responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and treating mental and physical aspects of psychological problems across adolescent and adult populations at the Precourt Healing Center, an acute inpatient psychiatric facility. This role reports to the Medical Director and within the psychiatric medical team, conducts thorough psychiatric evaluations, develops treatment plans, prescribes medication, and evaluates treatment results on patients. This position participates as a fully integrated and embedded treatment team member for all clinical consultation, treatment planning, team meetings, family meetings, and discharge planning/execution.

Responsibilities

• Prescribes medication that can alter chemical imbalances affecting the patient's state of mind and behavior.
• Supports Utilization Management/Utilization Review, insurance authorization, and other patient financial resources as needed, such as through engagement of peer to peer, doc to doc, or compiling documentation support.
• Collaborates closely with psychologists, therapists, social workers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure integrated and holistic care.
• As appropriate, consults with external providers, schools, and community agencies to coordinate aftercare plans and support transitions.
• Provides consultation and clinical training to staff members on various medical and behavioral health subjects to include medication management and psychiatric evaluations.
• Serves as a collaborative resource and psychiatric expert across the Vail Health system supporting other service lines as appropriate.
• Serves as a liaison with other psychiatric staff and consultants and provides coverage for those persons.
• Maintains a comprehensive caseload that is based on facility need and may vary based on patient census.
• Maintains excellence in clinical documentation in alignment with local, internal, state, federal, and regulatory standards and compliance.
• Serves as a community leader providing outreach, education, and engagement across the community as needed.
• Role models the principles of a Just Culture and Organizational Values.
• Performs other duties as assigned. Must be HIPAA compliant.
• This description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.

Requirements

• Extensive experience providing and supervising psychiatric services, prescribing psychotropic medication, performing psychiatric evaluations, and treating a wide variety of patient diagnoses/complaints, required.
• Eligible for Medicare, Medicaid, and third-party reimbursement (not on any exclusion list), required.
• License(s):
• Valid state of Colorado License as a Physician Assistant (PA) or valid state of Colorado Medical License as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), required.
• Current DEA with no restrictions on prescribing controlled substances, required.
• Certification(s):
• N/A
• Computer / Typing:
• Must possess, or be able to obtain within 90 days, the computers skills necessary to

Benefits

Additional Information

Vail Health has become the world's most advanced mountain healthcare system. Vail Health consists of an updated 520,000-square-foot, 56-bed hospital. This state-of-the-art facility provides exceptional care to all of our patients, with the most beautiful views in the area, located centrally in Vail. Learn more about Vail Health here . Vail Health Behavioral Health is designated as as a Colorado Health Service Corps Site to receive funding for qualifying educational loans.

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