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Nurse Practitioner - Child Abuse Specialist

Legacy Health
Vancouver, WA Part Time
POSTED ON 3/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025
Overview

Seeking 1.0 FTE (M-F 40 hours a week) Outpatient Child Abuse Nurse Practitioner Specialist for Legacy Salmon Creek Child Abuse Assessment Team in Vancouver, WA.

Legacy is committed to delivering comprehensive family-centered care with compassion and excellence in a culture that values diversity.

Clinical Role Includes

  • Outpatient medical evaluations of children for suspected abuse and neglect.
  • Taking histories, performing physical examinations, obtaining physical findings photographs, ordering needed cultures, lab tests, and imaging studies.
  • Performing overall health screenings with follow-up referrals.
  • Entering detailed, legally acceptable timely reports into EMR of medical evaluations with sign-off, charge entry and accurate coding with inclusion of diagnostic findings and treatment recommendations.
  • Contacting internal and outside agencies to ensure understanding of relevant information with timely debrief to develop cooperative follow-up plan.
  • Participating in peer review and quality assurance.
  • Requesting peer review on cases that pose diagnostic problems.
  • Telephone consultations on medical aspects of suspected abuse.
  • Triage and engagement with five county multi-disciplinary teams for coordinated child abuse response.
  • Expert testimony when subpoenaed to depositions or trials with integration of current research and be a resource for staff preparing for court.
  • Attending child abuse professional training for medical providers.

Education: As required by licensure:

  • Experience: Pediatric APP with 3 years or greater experience in Child Abuse Pediatrics. This position entails clinical consults in outpatient hospital clinic.
  • Licensure/Certification: Current applicable state RN license required. National Certification as a Nurse Practitioner (NP).
  • Current applicable state license as a Nurse Practitioner with Prescriptive Privileges (NP-PP).

Qualifications

As a condition of hire and throughout employment, the role requires child abuse background checks through the DHS Child Abuse registry check. If a record exists, findings will be reported back to CAAT and addressed in accordance with program policies.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vets/Disabled.

For inquiries about the role, please contact Hiring Manager Lisa Lyons, PhD, at LLYONS@LHS.ORG

For application information, please apply or contact Recruiter Forrest Brown at FoBrown@lhs.org

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