APRN Nurse Clinician - Provider

Pay is commensurate with experience. This is a full time, exempt, benefits eligible position. Bert Nash offers excellent benefits which include medical, dental, vision, KPERS retirement, life insurance, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing free counseling and resources, and generous PTO.

Caring. Hope. Giving back. Our mission at the Bert Nash Center as the Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) of Douglas County is to advance the health of the community through comprehensive behavioral health services responsive to evolving needs and changing environments. We accomplish this by believing in our team. Each person that works for the Bert Nash Center contributes directly to the success of our clients, organization, and community. Our values of compassion, integrity, equity and hope reflect in everything we do.

Responsibilities: The primary responsibility of the APRN Nurse Clinician will be the delivery of medical services that enhance the effective, efficient, and timely delivery of medical services to the Center's clients, either in adults in the adult outpatient department (CSS/AOP) and/or in the Child and Family Services (CFS) department and enhance the availability of the psychiatry staff. Specific duties will include but not limited to:

• provide medication treatment in accordance to a written protocol authorized by a responsible physician
• conduct meds only intakes and complete diagnostic evaluations; conduct educational activities, including groups, regarding medications;
• provide crisis stabilization services;
• serve as liaison with the medical community as appropriate;
• conduct meds only intakes and complete diagnostic evaluations;
• deliver reimbursable hours of service compliant with established standards;
• regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the job; and
• assume additional responsibilities that may be assigned as circumstances warrant.

Qualifications: The APRN Nurse Clinician position requires but not limited to:

• master's degree in clinical specialty of psychiatric nursing, specifically for adult services with current Kansas registered nursing license;
• eligibility for, or credentialed in Kansas as an advanced registered nurse practitioner (ARNP) authorized to transmit prescription orders pursuant to a written protocol authorized by a responsible physician;
• knowledge of psychopharmacological interactions;
• can demonstrate physical assessment nursing skills;
• knowledge of therapeutic processes, and mental/physical disease entities, as well as established brief psychotherapy, group therapy, crisis intervention, and psycho-educational group skills, and the strong interpersonal skills essential to developing effective relationships with referring members of the medical community;
• experience related to design and delivery of managed behavioral health care preferred;
• readiness/ability to exercise leadership in the continuing process fundamental to the Center's successful adaptation to a dynamic environment;
• flexibility in assigned working hours;
• a commitment to interdisciplinary and community mental health center approaches; and
• an energetic and positive approach to the rapidly evolving changes and challenges of a complex work place.