Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides behavioral health services to adults, adolescents and children within the scope and practice.
• Obtains comprehensive health histories, requests special diagnostic and laboratory tests, interprets test results, and develops comprehensive psychiatric treatment plans.
• Provides mental health assessments, diagnoses, and treatment plans in identified areas; provides medication management for patients; and maintain appropriate health records.
• Prescribes pharmaceutical therapy consistent with medical evaluation, treatment plan and current standards of practice.
• Collaborates with guardians, relatives, and significant others on client's conditions and treatment when clinically appropriate and as allowable by law.
• Participates in a team management approach to patient care/treatment.
• Collaborates with precepting Physician(s) and other healthcare disciplines, as appropriate.
• Refers clients for more specialized or inpatient interventions as situations arise.
• Participates in after-hours phone call rotation for Behavioral Health.
• Maintains appropriate documentation of clinical services in the EMR, including all necessary billing information.
• Maintains quality care through participation in peer review and quality improvement programs.
• Actively participates in quarterly Provider/Continuous Performance Improvement/Pharmacy and Therapeutics meetings and other meetings as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• APRN licensure in the state of South Carolina with prescriptive authority and Certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; or Licensed as a Physician Assistant by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Board of Medical Examiners.
• Current Federal DEA Registration and SC Controlled Substance Registration
  
• Previous experience assessing and providing medication management for patients with behavioral health disorders in a psychiatric or primary care setting preferred.