ARNP/Physician Assistant

Overview

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 Responsibilities 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…

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