ARNP/Physician Assistant

Career opportunities abound at SOUND
SOUND Behavioral Health is growing, and we are hiring an ARNP or Physician Assistant in King County, WA!

SOUND is one of King County’s most comprehensive providers of quality mental health and addiction treatment services, supporting our area’s most vulnerable populations. A central tenet of our work is Reaching Recovery, an evidence-based clinical care model.

This position is a professional-level position intended to provide psychiatric services in our agency through the prescribing and monitoring of medications, evaluation of psychiatric status, and consultation to non-medical team members. This is primarily a clinical position, and incumbents will spend the majority of their time seeing patients, with the same productivity standards and same scheduling guidelines as physicians. 

Location: 2329 4th Ave Seattle, Washington 98121 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES

• Independently evaluate patients for the purpose of determining a differential, psychiatric diagnosis, and biopsychosocial case formulation. 
• Assess patients for psychiatric/psychotropic medication necessity.
• Prescribe the psychiatric or psychotropic medications, which are within his/her licensing purview.
• Coordinate with program manager in assigned programs to facilitate integration of medical issues with overall treatment planning
• Screen patients for concurrent non-psychiatric medical conditions and refer for appropriate care.
• Order all appropriate laboratory tests to determine a differential diagnosis and assure safe prescription of medications.
• Assess for medication side effects and treat when appropriate, following guidelines set by accepted professional standards and any other applicable standards of care.
• Consult with the treatment teams or other agency and non-agency providers on issues related to an individual patient's treatment and overall treatment planning. Liaison with primary care physicians and their staff.
• Attend and participate in medical staff meetings, as required.
• Obtain supervision, consultation or guidance by an agency psychiatrist or the medical director in cases as needed.
• Maintain clinical records in accordance with agency policy.
• Perform other functions, e.g. teaching, supervision of nursing staff and students, inter- and interagency committee responsibilities, as assigned. These responsibilities may include the provision of group staff consultations without the presence of a staff psychiatrist. 
• Understand recovery concepts in behavioral health.
• Apply recovery concepts, as appropriate to clinical work at Sound.
• Synthesize and demonstrate recovery concepts in clinical work at Sound.

KEY WORK RELATIONSHIPS

Establishes and maintains positive, ethical, and professional working relationships with clinical team members, clients, and outside organizations. Relates to a wide variety of people, including members of ethnic and sexual minority populations, and is respectful of individual and cultural differences.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

At least two (2) years of previous experience prescribing psychotropic medications is required, preferably in a community mental health setting.

Applicants without psychotropic prescribing experience must have completed the PMHNP or PA program that first made them eligible for board certification no more than 18 months prior to the date of application.

For ARNP:

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Previous experience prescribing psychotropic medications is desirable, especially within a community mental health setting.
• If the position is to work with children, then child ARNP certification is necessary or adult certification with child prescribing experience and intent to be certified in child.
• If the position is mainly to work with adults or older adults, then adult ARNP certification is required, with corresponding experience desirable.
• This individual should be comfortable being supervised by physicians and functioning collaboratively with other team members.
• Ability to be reimbursed for services by Medicare and Medicaid is required.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES & REGISTRATIONS

• Current nursing license in the State of Washington required
• Current license to prescribe medicine in the State of Washington required.
• Current license as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner in Washington State required.
• DEA for WA State required. 
• Must pass a criminal background check.

For Physician Assistant:

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Previous experience prescribing psychotropic medications is desirable, especially within a community mental health setting.
• If the position is to work with children, then child PA certification is necessary or adult certification with child prescribing experience and intent to be certified in child.
• If the position is mainly to work with adults or older adults, then adult PA certification is required, with corresponding experience desirable.
• This individual should be comfortable being supervised by physicians and functioning collaboratively with other team members.
• Ability to be reimbursed for services by Medicare and Medicaid is required.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES & REGISTRATIONS

• Current license to prescribe medicine in the State of Washington required.
• Current license as an Physician Assistant in Washington State required.
• DEA for WA State required. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

To successfully perform the essential duties of this Job, an individual must be able to sit at a desk for four or more hours a day and use office equipment, including phones and computer keyboards, for four or more hours per day. Individuals must be able to engage vendors, team members, clients and others over the phone and in-person by voice. Regular attendance is an essential function of the Job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER 

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work performed; it is not intended as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and required skills for the position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State laws. Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities necessary to perform each duty proficiently. Continued employment remains on an at-will basis.