Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Job DetailsJob Location: Richland County Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center - SC - Columbia, SC 29209Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: Graduate DegreeSalary Range: $90.00 - $100.00 HourlyTravel Percentage: NoneJob Shift: DayJob Category: Nurse Practitioner/Physician AssistantSUMMARY: Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The Psychiatric Practitioner works with the treatment team to deliver care to patients  Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders  Patient population: Adults + Adolescents; dual diagnosis, mental health, substance abuse  Provide follow up psychiatric care to individual case load: improve patient mental health outcomes, medication management, address comprehensive mental healthcare needs  Team-based integrated care: coordination with counselors to integrate psychiatry & counseling  Thematic focus on patient experience: optimizing for safety, patient satisfaction and access to care  Conduct psychiatric evaluations, develop treatment plans, and evaluate treatment results  Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments within psychiatric parameters  Be physically on-site at assigned correctional facility(s) on a regular basis  Examine patients as needed. The expectation is that you stay on-site until all patients that need to be seen are seen.  Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority, as appropriate in your professional medical judgement, and without regard to cost. When prescribing, you should be mindful of things such as, but not limited to, medication adverse reactions, medication interactions, substance abuse issues, mental health disorders, comorbidities, allergies, pain level, vital signs, contraindications, drug monitoring, etc. in the context of the individual patient. You should prescribe medication for the appropriate duration of time, as determined by your professional medical judgement.  Review patient medical records, as appropriate  Sign off on orders, as appropriate  Comply with the correctional facility’s policies and procedures, unless doing so would be counter to common sense  If a determination is made that off-site care would be more appropriate for the patient, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments with the understanding that this can be overruled by the Sheriff/Jailer  Endeavor to attend a minimum of 1 ACH medical conference per year  Any and all other duties as assigned  Qualifications Must possess a current state license in the state in which services are to be provided (MD, DO, Nurse Practitioner, Physician’s Assistant, Psychiatry)  Board Certified Current DEA registration   Experience in a primary care specialty, corrections, and/or managed health care delivery  Must be able to drive a motor vehicle  Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands-on training  Benefits (Benefits eligibility is determined by employment status): Referral program 401(k) w/employer match Health insurance Vision insurance Dental insurance Professional Development Paid Time Off Disability Insurance