Advanced Practice Professional (PA) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Comprehensive Eating Disorder Program

This is an Advanced Practice Professional (APP) job opening.

Both qualified NP and PA applicants will be considered.

NPs are directed to apply to job # 276435 and PAs are directed to apply to job # 276436

A total of one (1), 1.0 FTE Advanced Practice Professional (either NP or PA) will be hired to fill this job opening.

• Act as a primary psychiatry provider for child and adolescent patients with eating disorders both within the Partial Hospitalization Program, Intensive Outpatient Program and outpatient setting, collaborating closely with the supervising faculty psychiatrist.
• Provide comprehensive mental health care, including psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis, and medication management
• Perform daily patient evaluations and develop individualized treatment plans in collaboration with the team, along with regular documentation.
• Serve as an essential part of the multidisciplinary team and attend team meetings, family meetings, and care coordination meetings to provide clinical care.
• Communicate with members of the team, family, schools, and other current or past providers to assist with coordination of care.
• Staff cases seen with the supervising faculty psychiatrist
• Engage in quality improvement and other academic projects with the faculty psychiatrists, and other members of the interprofessional team, as they arise and as time allows
• Provide teaching to trainees and students that observe or rotate through the clinical spaces you are involved in

Required Qualifications (PA):

• Current license to practice as a Physician Assistant in the State of Michigan.
• Certificate of Added Qualification in Psychiatry from the National Commission on Certification for Physician Assistants (NCCPA) or additional Psychiatric Mental training and education
• Satisfactory completion of a physician assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), or one of its predecessor agencies, CAHEA or CAAHEP in the state of Michigan.
• One or more years of clinical experience with children/adolescents with eating disorders or in child psychiatry
• Current DEA registration or plan to obtain.
• AHA BLS required.

NOTE:
*Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the credentialing and privileging process.
In order to be considered for this position the applicant must have met or will have met all the required qualifications prior to the start date of employment.

RESUME REQUIRED (for both internal & external applicants):
You must attach a complete and accurate resume to be fully considered for this position.

• One or more years of practice as an NP or PA.
• Completion of a Child or Adolescent Mental Health fellowship
• Previous experience in intensive outpatient programming, day programming, partial hospitalization programming with experience in problem-solving, crisis management, and de-escalation of distressed patients is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills as measured by references and interviews.
• Strong organizational skills and demonstrated problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated high level of critical thinking and medical knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to share clinical care ideas and collaborate across multiple patient care services and to communicate assertively as a patient advocate.
• Ability to multi-task and work on a collaborative team.
• Commitment to clinical care, quality improvement, and teaching.
• Demonstrated leadership in work setting and other professional activities.
• Self-directed learner
• Incorporates feedback well

Hours: 40 per week
Shifts: 8-hour shifts, Days Monday-Friday

This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the United Physician Assistants of Michigan Medicine (UPAMM), which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.