ARNP - Outpatient Psychiatric

About the job

Frontier Behavioral Health is hiring a full-time outpatient psychiatric ARNP in Spokane. The ARNP performs psychiatric evaluations and diagnoses, decides on and prescribes medications, lab studies and imaging as licensed, and helps build evidence-based, trauma-informed treatment plans with the treatment teams.

Frontier Behavioral Health is a non-profit that has served Spokane for more than 100 years, offering evidence-based, trauma-informed behavioral health treatment to adults, youth and seniors. Its services include outpatient, inpatient, community outreach and crisis services, plus partnerships with schools and law enforcement.

What you'll do

• Perform psychiatric evaluations and assessments and make diagnoses for assigned clients, and do crisis medical evaluations for other clients as needed
• Decide whether medications, lab studies or imaging are needed, and select, prescribe and monitor psychotropic medications as licensed by law
• Help develop treatment plans and review cases with treatment teams so care is evidence-based and trauma-informed
• Teach patients about their diagnosis and medication regimen
• Bring clinically complicated cases to the Chief Medical Officer in regular consultations, and keep your supervisor informed of daily activities and potential problems
• Provide case consultation to other FBH staff, residential providers and families on request
• Document accurately, clearly and on time in the client record, using concurrent documentation in the electronic medical record whenever feasible
• Take part in utilization review and peer review, and meet or exceed productivity requirements
• Coordinate with patients' primary care providers and arrange referrals to primary care physicians as appropriate
• Keep current through continuing education in neuropharmacology, and occasionally help provide ARNP coverage in other programs

What you need

• A Washington State ARNP license with prescriptive authority
• Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner board certification (ANCC)
• A DEA license
• Qualified to be credentialed with insurance companies
• Able to sit and use a computer for four to eight hours a day in an office setting, and to lift 10 to 20 pounds when required
• The job carries a chance of blood-borne pathogen exposure (Category I)

Preferred

• Experience in community-based behavioral health care

Schedule

• Full-time
• Outpatient ARNPs are encouraged to join the provider on-call rotation: each call period runs 24/7 for one week, starting and ending Monday at 8 a.m., and the on-call provider must be reachable by phone throughout
• How often call comes up depends on the size of the on-call pool; historically it has been 4 to 5 times a year
• Most call work falls between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m., though occasional calls between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. are possible
• Some work may be out of the office, with travel to outside areas

Benefits

• Paid time off, up to 26 days in the first year
• Nine paid federal holidays
• Extended sick leave and paid sick and safe time
• A compressed workweek option for some positions, giving up to 26 more days off a year
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• A 403b retirement plan in which the employer puts in a standard 3% and matches up to another 3%
• Flexible spending accounts
• Company-paid life insurance starting the first of the month after 6 months from hire
• A signing bonus
• No-cost licensure supervision for those pursuing clinical licensure
• Federal and state loan forgiveness for qualifying programs
• Reimbursement of the license or certification application fee the job requires
• A free employee assistance program and staff discounts at FBH partners around Spokane