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Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Full Time

ADVANCED CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE
Columbia, SC Full Time
POSTED ON 3/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/12/2025

Job Details

Job Location:    Columbia, SC
Position Type:    Full Time
Education Level:    Graduate Degree
Salary Range:    $90.00 - $100.00 Hourly
Travel Percentage:    None
Job Shift:    Day
Job Category:    Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant

Description

SUMMARY:

Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

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

  • The Psychiatric Practitioner works with the treatment team to deliver care to patients 

  • Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders 

  • Patient population: Adults Adolescents; dual diagnosis, mental health, substance abuse 

  • Provide follow up psychiatric care to individual case load: improve patient mental health outcomes, medication management, address comprehensive mental healthcare needs 

  • Team-based integrated care: coordination with counselors to integrate psychiatry & counseling 

  • Thematic focus on patient experience: optimizing for safety, patient satisfaction and access to care 

  • Conduct psychiatric evaluations, develop treatment plans, and evaluate treatment results 

  • Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments within psychiatric parameters 

  • Be physically on-site at assigned correctional facility(s) on a regular basis 

  • Examine patients as needed. The expectation is that you stay on-site until all patients that need to be seen are seen. 

  • Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority, as appropriate in your professional medical judgement, and without regard to cost. When prescribing, you should be mindful of things such as, but not limited to, medication adverse reactions, medication interactions, substance abuse issues, mental health disorders, comorbidities, allergies, pain level, vital signs, contraindications, drug monitoring, etc. in the context of the individual patient. You should prescribe medication for the appropriate duration of time, as determined by your professional medical judgement. 

  • Review patient medical records, as appropriate 

  • Sign off on orders, as appropriate 

  • Comply with the correctional facility’s policies and procedures, unless doing so would be counter to common sense 

  • If a determination is made that off-site care would be more appropriate for the patient, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments with the understanding that this can be overruled by the Sheriff/Jailer 

  • Endeavor to attend a minimum of 1 ACH medical conference per year 

  • Any and all other duties as assigned 

Qualifications


  • Must possess a current state license in the state in which services are to be provided (MD, DO, Nurse Practitioner, Physician’s Assistant, Psychiatry) 

  • Board Certified  

  • Current DEA registration  

  • Experience in a primary care specialty, corrections, and/or managed health care delivery 

  • Must be able to drive a motor vehicle 

  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands-on training 

Salary : $90 - $100

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