Salary Pay Range: $176,396-$248,130.79. Annually
Essential Functions:
•Provides direct patient care to diagnose and treat patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders.
•Utilizes appropriate therapeutic modalities including individual/group/family therapy, as well as medication management and review.
•Provides consultation services on psychiatric matters to other GRHWC professional and allied health staff.
•Refers patients for admission to acute medical and/or psychiatric inpatient settings when such care cannot be adequately provided in-house.
•Coordinates and integrates information on all such referrals and assures provision of timely follow-up care as required.
•Participates with other medical professionals in educating the community and medical staff on health issues.
•Prepares and maintains behavioral health medical records for all patients seen in accordance with GCR policies and procedures, as well as regulatory requirements and requirements of accreditation bodies and third party payers.
•Provides printed and verbal instructions at time of office encounter.
•Enhances patient participation in self-care by patient and family health education.
•Provides public health education beyond patient visits which includes speaking at community events and writing for publications.
•Handle protected health information (PHI) in a manner consistent with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
•Participates in program planning and service development.
•Collaborates with other clinical departments for continuity of care.
•Collaborates with other Tribal Departments (Social Services, Child, Family Services, and Behavioral Health) when requested by patient or department.
•Attends and participates in administrative meetings as instructed by Health Center Administration.
•Participates in quality assurance review activities as determined.
•Performs a variety of other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Education, Experience, and Licenses:
•Requires an active license as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) approved by the State of Oregon, and a minimum of three (3) years’ experience in Psychiatry practice.
•OR equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
•Licensure by the State of Oregon Board of Nursing as a PMHNP and DEA registration. Must be willing to be a provider on our medication assisted treatment team.
Driving Requirements:
•This position may require driving.
Qualifications, Registrations, and Certifications:
•Familiarity with primary care screening tools such as the PHQ, SBIRT, and SLUMS.
•Experience with adolescent, children and/or geriatric clients preferred.
•Must have strong interpersonal skills working with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
•Must respect others regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or income level.
•Must be committed to providing comprehensive health care to the individual, family, and community.
•Must be able to work as a team member and develop productive and cooperative working relationships with health care providers within the facility as well as allied healthcare and social service providers.
•Must have Electronic Health Record (EHR) experience and be proficient in the use of EHR.
•Must have experience working in a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
•Experience working with Native populations preferred.
•Must maintain patient confidentiality at all times.
•Knowledge of and sensitivity to Native American culture required.
Environmental Factors and Conditions/Physical Requirements:
•Continually requires the ability to express or receive detailed information or important instructions through oral communication.
•Continually requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm. Requires repetitive movement of wrists, hands and/or fingers. Often requires walking or moving about to accomplish tasks.
•Requires standing and/or sitting for sustained periods of time, raising objects from a lower to a higher position and/or moving objects horizontally.
•Occasionally requires lifting of up to 40 pounds.
•Due to the nature of the interactions with other employees and the public we serve, employees may be required to provide documentation of, or receive, certain health vaccinations.
•This position is frequently subject to inside environmental conditions which provide protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes, and is occasionally subject to outside environmental conditions.
•May be called upon to serve as a Disaster Reservist during emergencies.
•Local travel is occasionally required. Travel outside of the state is infrequently required.
Background Check:
•Candidates for this position will be subject to criminal and character background checks and may be subject to fingerprinting.
