Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization

The outpatient Psychiatric ARNP is responsible for providing psychiatric services to clients in Sea Mar’s outpatient Behavioral Health sites and in Sea Mar’s medical clinics. The clients served in the Behavioral Health Program have access to counseling and case management services, in addition to the psychiatric services provided by the Psychiatric ARNP. The clients seen at the medical clinics by the Psychiatric ARNP will be seen for evaluation and medication follow-up. The Psychiatric ARNP does not provide counseling services.

The Psychiatric ARNP is part of a care team working to provide quality comprehensive services to Sea Mar patients. The Psychiatric ARNP will work collaboratively with staff to provide team-based coordinated care.

Duties and Responsibilities As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services.

Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:

•Understanding and empathizing with client needs

•Surpassing client expectations

•Demonstrating a high level of integrity

•Exhibiting compassion and commitment

•Advocating for social justice

•Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team

•Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

THE PSYCHIATRIC ARNP’S DUTIES include:

•Face to face psychiatric evaluations with client/patients to determine psychiatric diagnosis.

•Ongoing medication review services to assess the effects of prescribed medication.

•Consultation with Behavioral Health clinical staff and Sea Mar medical clinic providers to review cases and provide recommendations about diagnosis, medications, and other treatment considerations.

•Phone availability for emergency review of medications and their effects, or for refilling prescriptions.

•Phone consultation with Sea Mar physicians so that they can prescribe initial medications until such time as clients can been seen for a face to face for psychiatric/medication review and possible entry into mental health services.

•Chart documentation to include written notes of psychiatric evaluations, medication reviews, and any other client contacts.

•The Psychiatric ARNP will maintain a Psychiatric Medication Chart, make copies of all prescriptions, and obtain all necessary medication consent signatures from each client.

OTHER CLINICAL DUTIES

•Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.

•Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.

•Able to identify and categorize each patient’s age-specific grouping of needs, such as those for infant, adolescent, or geriatric patients.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

•This person must sign an oath of permanent confidentiality covering all patient related information.

•This person must receive a background check from DSHS and Washington State Patrol.

•This person must comply with all ethical standards of Sea Mar and those required by DOH (Washington State Department of Health).

•The person in this position shall have no history or evidence of alcohol or other drug misuse for a period of three (3) years immediately prior to the date of employment at the facility, and no misuse of alcohol or other drugs while employed at this center.

•The Behavioral Health Director shall sign and date the job description to affirm the validity of the information herein.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

•Experience RN. Licensed in the State of Washington. Must be licensed as a psychiatric nurse (Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner) with more than five years of experience providing psychiatric services.

CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

•Must be bi-cultural.

•Knowledge and experience working with Hispanics, migrant and seasonal farm workers and homeless individuals preferred.

•Interest and flexibility in a variety of person care situations: family care, youth, and adult.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

•Must be bilingual Spanish/English.

•Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operation and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

•Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

•Ability to speak efficiently before client or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

•Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.

•Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

REASONING ABILITY

•Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

•Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

•MHP, prefer certification as minority Mental Health Specialist as prescribed by WAC, must have and maintain TB test annually.

•This position must obtain Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR within 90 days of hire date and is required to maintain current BLS CPR throughout employment.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Additional Requirements

•Annual influenza vaccine required. Only exception is for employees with a medical or religious exemption approved by Administration. Employees with an approved medical or religious exemption must wear a mask at all time during the flu season.

Salary - Salary Plan, 151,250.00 USD Annual

What We Offer:

Sea Mar offers talented and motivated people the opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing community health organization. Working at Sea Mar Community Health Centers is more than just a job, it’s a fulfilling career with opportunity for advancement. The fringe benefits surpass most companies. For example, Full-time employees working 30 hours or more, receive an excellent benefit package of:

•Medical

•Dental

•Vision

•Prescription coverage

•Life Insurance

•Long Term Disability

•EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

•Paid-time-off starting at 24 days per year + 10 paid Holidays.

•We also offer 401(k)/Retirement options and an exciting opportunity to work in a culturally diverse environment.

Sea Mar is an equal opportunity employer.

Please visit our website to learn more about us at www.seamar.org. You may also apply thru our Career page at this link.

Psychiatric ARNP

About this role

Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

THE PSYCHIATRIC ARNP’S DUTIES include:

OTHER CLINICAL DUTIES

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

LANGUAGE SKILLS

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

REASONING ABILITY

What We Offer:

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