Psych ARNP in Vancouver

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services.

The outpatient Psychiatric ARNP is responsible for providing psychiatric services to clients in Sea Mar's outpatient Behavioral Health sites and in Sea Mar's medical clinics. The clients served in the Behavioral Health Program have access to counseling and case management services, in addition to the psychiatric services provided by the Psychiatric ARNP. The Psychiatric ARNP does not provide counseling services and is part of a care team working to provide quality comprehensive services to Sea Mar patients.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• Surpassing client expectations
• Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• Exhibiting compassion and commitment
• Advocating for social justice
• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Face to face psychiatric evaluations with client/patients to determine psychiatric diagnosis.
• Ongoing medication review services to assess the effects of prescribed medication.
• Consultation with Behavioral Health clinical staff and Sea Mar medical clinic providers to review cases and provide recommendations about diagnosis, medications, and other treatment considerations.
• Phone availability for emergency review of medications and their effects, or for refilling prescriptions.
• Phone consultation with Sea Mar physicians so that they can prescribe initial medications until such time as clients can be seen for a face to face for psychiatric/medication review and possible entry into mental health services.
• Chart documentation to include written notes of psychiatric evaluations, medication reviews, and any other client contacts.
• The Psychiatric ARNP will maintain a Psychiatric Medication Chart, make copies of all prescriptions, and obtain all necessary medication consent signatures from each client.

Other Clinical Duties

• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Able to identify and categorize each patient's age-specific grouping of needs, such as those for infant, adolescent, or geriatric patients.

Conditions of Employment

• This person must sign an oath of permanent confidentiality covering all patient related information.
• This person must receive a background check from DSHS and Washington State Patrol.
• This person must comply with all ethical standards of Sea Mar and those required by DOH Washington State Department of Health.
• The person in this position shall have no history or evidence of alcohol or other drug misuse for a period of three (3) years immediately prior to the date of employment at the facility, and no misuse of alcohol or other drugs while employed at this center.
• The Behavioral Health Director shall sign and date the job description to affirm the validity of the information herein.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.