Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Part Time

Job DetailsJob Location: Winnebago County Jail - IL - Rockford, IL 61102Position Type: Part TimeEducation Level: Graduate DegreeSalary Range: $85.00 - $100.00 HourlyTravel Percentage: NoneJob Shift: AnyJob 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 facilitys 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, Physicians 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