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Per Diem Psychiatric ARNP - Crisis Solutions Center (CSC)
Seattle, WA (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600+South+Lane+Street+Seattle+WA+USA+98144) -Medical
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**Shift:** Variable - no earlier than 8am, no later than 7pm
**Benefits:** Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Safe & Sick Time, Retirement Plan
**Union Representation:** This position is a part of a union and is represented by SEIU Healthcare 1199NW.
**About DESC:**
Recognized nationally as an innovator and leader in developing solutions to homelessness, DESC is a social services organization, supportive housing operator, and licensed behavioral health treatment provider focused on meeting the needs of people experiencing long-term homelessness and living with complex behavioral health and other medical conditions. Approximately 3,000 people are actively receiving services from DESC at any given point in time. Our vision is a community where all people are shown compassion, treated with dignity, and everyone has a safe, stable, and affordable place to call home.
DESC operates five shelter/emergency housing programs, 19 permanent supportive housing facilities with over 1,750 units, several hundred additional scattered site apartments, and a range of behavioral health services including outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment, residential crisis stabilization, street outreach, mobile crisis response, and treatment for opioid use disorder.
**JOB DEFINITION:**
The Psychiatric ARNP is responsible for providing psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis & treatment; crisis stabilization; medication prescription; recommending rehabilitation services, and coordination with community providers as necessary.
**JOB DEFINITION:**
The Psychiatric ARNP is a member of a multi-disciplinary team and is responsible for providing psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis & treatment; crisis stabilization; medication prescription; recommending rehabilitation services, and coordination with community providers as necessary. In conjunction with other psychiatric and management staff, this position has clinical responsibility for monitoring participant treatment and staff delivery of clinical services, assuring compliance with all local, state and federal laws and relevant contract and procedure requirements associated with operations within DESC.
Services will be provided in participants' home and community at least 75% of the time which includes travel time to perform services. In conjunction with the project manager, team leader, Nursing Supervisor, psychiatrist and Medical Director, this position has overall clinical responsibility for monitoring participant treatment and staff delivery of clinical services. All members of the team are expected to work with participants in a variety of shared functions. This team is designed to work with individuals who have experienced long durations or multiple episodes in psychiatric hospitalizations and/or residential mental health treatment. Individuals served experience chronic or multiple episodes of severe mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders and possibly homelessness. These individuals have either been unable or unwilling to participate and succeed in traditional treatment settings. Therefore, it is critical that the members of this team work together in a collaborative manner that eliminates the traditional treatment borders and barriers.
**MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:**
+ Coordinate client care with a multi-disciplinary team of social workers/case managers, chemical dependency professionals, psychiatric nurses, peer counselors, employment specialists and other mental health staff within the PACT team.
+ Perform full psychiatric evaluations and provide treatment and recommendations as appropriate, at DESC sites and in the community, as needed by program and individual need.
+ Diagnose the nature and extent of mental and/or substance-related disorders by reviewing the client's clinical record, requesting and reviewing known medical/psychiatric documentation, coordination with other providers, and evaluating the client's current physical and psychological condition.
+ Coordinate all psychiatric services provided with Program management, Medical Director, nursing and other management staff.
+ PACT always has a provider on-call who is available for consultation with other staff as well as Emergency Departments, first-responders, and other medical providers.
+ Maintain compliance with all related licensing, DEA, and other regulations.
+ Conduct all work within principles of the Recovery model.
+ Evaluate clients and advise course of treatment. Respond to emergency situations as needed.
+ Refer and advocate for clients to consult with a primary care physician on a regular basis. When appropriate, refer clients to other specialists.
+ For all clients receiving medication treatment, conduct a face to face evaluation at least every 90 days or othe
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