Job Description

About Addiction Recovery Care

At Addiction Recovery Care we incorporate the best practices of clinical drug addiction treatment. We provide addiction recovery that works with a commitment to provide hope and freedom to those suffering from addictions. Our passion is to restore productive lives through a treatment program that establishes emotional health, physical wellness, vocational, and spiritual growth. Our dedication is to see transformed lives anchored in strong family relationships, meaningful careers, and social responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Kentucky-licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.
• Willingness to make treatment recommendations to primary care team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Positive, flexible, and solution-focused attitude.
• Ability to quickly synthesize medical and psychiatric data and formulate effective and evidence-based clinical recommendations.

DESIRED

• Kentucky Medicaid enrollment.
• Experience with primary care psychiatry or consultation-liaison psychiatry.
• DATA 2000 waiver.

DUTIES * Provide regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation to behavioral health care managers (CMs). These consultations focus primarily on clients who are new to treatment or who are not improving as expected and are typically done by telephone, telehealth, or in person.

• Maintain professional cell phone account and provide occasional telephonic consultation to primary care providers (PCPs) as needed, focusing on clients in the CMs caseload. Respond to telephone calls from primary care providers and CMs within one business day. Respond to urgent telephone calls within one hour, if available.
• Provide telehealth mental health assessments for clients referred for specialty mental health care by primary care team staff.
• Conduct therapy, medication assessments, and crisis response for new and existing clients. Develops individual treatment plans based upon assessment data, and provide therapeutic interventions as necessary including the provision of on-going medication management services.
• Maintain documentation of services including treatment plans, progress notes,

medication informed consent, quarterly treatment plan reviews, and other required
information in compliance with ARC policies and compliance standards. * Maintain professional email accounts for contact during usual business hours. Check professional email account daily and respond to email questions/consultations within two business days, sooner if urgent.

• Work with assigned CMs to track and oversee their client panels and clinical outcomes using an electronic medical records that tracks clinical processes and patient outcomes.
• Suggest treatment plan changes, including medication recommendations, for clients who are not improving as expected.
• Use a population-focused registry to document recommendations for treatment and/or referrals within 24 hours of consulting with a CM so that they can be easily shared with PCPs and other treating providers.
• When possible, visit each ARC center at least once per year to meet center providers and discuss ongoing collaboration.

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