JOB TITLE: Behavioral Health Advanced Practice Provider (PA/CPNP)
Reports To: Director of Behavioral Health
Baptist Community Health Services Mission Statement:
Demonstrating the love of Christ by providing high quality medical and behavioral healthcare in underserved communities.
Qualifications / Skills:
Primary Responsibilities & Duties/Essential Functions:
- Provide psychiatric assessment and ongoing psychopharmacological management
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation
- Work as a team with mental health clinicians who are providing psychotherapy services
- Provide interventional treatments including EMDR and Spravato
- Orders and performs diagnostic tests and therapeutic procedures as related to mental health diagnoses and treatment and interprets test results for deviations from normal and provides follow up care.
- Prescribes medication and recommends dietary and activity programs.
- Performs appropriate interval follow up visits for necessary treatment of mental health diagnosis.
- Refers patient to other providers when indicated
- .Counsel patients on the use of prescription medications and educates patients in relation to treatment plan.
- Contributes to group therapy (i.e., PTSD groups; weight management; smoking cessation; grieving; and personal interactions).
- Embrace and support new initiatives, whether clinical or operational
Qualifications
- Licensed and Board Certified in the Louisiana
- Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant with behavioral health experience (required)
- Experience working in an outpatient setting (preferred)
- Experience working with clients across the lifespan (preferred)
Advanced Practice Providers work collaboratively across disciplines and appreciate the partnership of our in-house therapists who help to support their patients on their mental health journeys. We support the growth and development of these team members through education, supervision, and leadership opportunities. We believe in leading the mental health field with evidence-based treatments like EMDR and Spravato. These treatment methods provide our clinical teams with the tools they need to deliver real transformation for their patients.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be able to hear adequately to perform job duties in person and over the telephone
- Must be able to work in a mobile work environment
- Must be able to communicate clearly to patients in person and over the telephone
- Vision acuity must be adequate to perform job duties, including visual examination of patient and reading information from printed sources and computer screens
- Must have the ability to lift and carry items weighing up to 30 pounds unassisted, including assisting patients when required
- Adequate physical ability including sufficient manual dexterity to perform the requisite health care service, including injections
- Frequent bending, reaching, repetitive hand movements, standing, walking, squatting and sitting with some heavy lifting, pushing, and pulling exerted regularly throughout a regular work shift
- Prolonged standing when necessary
- Exposure to communicable diseases, bodily fluids, medicinal preparations, and other conditions common to a clinic environment
Teamwork:
- Works cooperatively within own department and other areas of BCHS
- Willingly accepts additional responsibilities—tries to make others’ job easier
- Responds quickly to requests for assistance
- Required to work closely with patients and BCHS associates
- Interacts with other employees to resolve challenges and improve systems
Continuous Improvement:
- Attend required education and training annually
- Work with the Director of Quality to ensure appropriate tracking of quality indicators
- Continuously looks for and suggests ways to improve
- Effectively and efficiently completes assignments in a cost effective manner
- Implements improvements as appropriate
- Demonstrates interest in own growth and development by:
- Periodically evaluating own performance
- Demonstrating an awareness of personal abilities and limitations
- Independently seeking means to make improvements
- Attending departmental meetings and clinic-wide meetings
- Participate in peer review
Communications:
- Keeps other staff appropriately informed of relevant issues that arise
- Speaks and writes English clearly, concisely, and appropriately for need
- Listens and Communicates tactfully
- Understands that all confidentiality and privacy considerations are respected
Self-Management:
- Present a positive image of Baptist Community Health Services
- Carries out assignments with little need for direction
- Timeliness
- Provides proper notification of absence and tardiness
- Able to adjust work hours with advanced notice
- Able to adapt easily to change
Other Requirements:
- Convey a professional, friendly attitude
- Convey courtesy, dignity and respect for individual differences and perspectives as demonstrated by words and actions
- Act calmly and effectively in a busy or stressful situation
- Project a positive attitude and maintain mutual respect with all individuals
- Ability to communicate effectively in person, by phone and in writing.
- American Heart Association BLS/CPRThe above is intended to describe the general content and requirements for the performance for this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements.
- Accepts feedback from patients, visitors, clinic employees, physicians, and general public
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $100,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to Relocate:
- New Orleans, LA 70117: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
