PA or NP - Behavioral Health/Emergency Medicine

Position Summary

Interact with emergency department and observation physicians, Emergency Behavioral Health Fellows, APPs, registered nurses, social workers, and other interdisciplinary team members to ensure ED and ED observation patients presenting with a behavioral health crisis receive optimal evaluation, stabilization, treatment, and care coordination.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provide in-person and telehealth services to adult and pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with behavioral or psychiatric complaints across multiple locations within an integrated health system.
• Provide care in an innovative Emergency Psychiatric Assessment Treatment and Healing Unit (EmPATH).
• Be a contributing member of a complex observation service.

Minimum Qualifications

• The successful candidate will be an independent thinker, self-motivated, able to work well in a fast-paced environment and have excellent interpersonal skills.
• The candidate will have the knowledge, experience, and compassion required to provide emergency behavioral health care in an emergency and complex observation setting.
• Employment requires current licensure and registration with the State of Michigan, DEA licensure.
• Additional life-saving certifications (e.g., ACLS, PALS) may be necessary based on the scope of services provided.
• Physician Assistants must be a graduate of an accredited physician assistant program (Psychiatry CAQ strongly preferred).
•  A Nurse Practitioner must hold a current RN license and be Board Certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC).

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, drug free workplace, and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.