Here at Corsica River Mental Health Services, we pride ourselves on our abilities to provide compassionate care and support to clients living with behavioral health needs. Our mission is to provide caring, effective, and highly accessible assessment and treatment to all mid-shore residents. We envision that all clients served will realize their inherent resiliency to successfully cope with life’s challenges. Client centered, solution-focused, & outcome-oriented are some of our many values, and we hire people who are ready to embody these qualities every single day.

We at CRMHS recognize the value our treatment team brings to the agency. Corsica River Mental Health Services is looking for a prescriber to provide culturally competent mental health and/or Substance Use Disorder services to individuals and families, evaluating, diagnosing and treating clients, including prescribing medication and coordinating behavioral health care.

Prescriber ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Provide on-site and/or telehealth services at least 20 hours per week, to include psychiatric evaluations, medication management and client care coordination, including crisis intervention.
• Perform Psychiatric Evaluations within one hour.
• Perform Medication Management sessions within 20-30 minutes.
• Utilize E-Prescribe for all prescriptions.
• Complete all client documentation in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) within 24 hours of the service.
• Utilize CRISP and other CMS and/or Meaningful Use requirements.
• Provide high quality, compassionate and ethical care to clients as scheduled, measured by meeting productivity targets, client surveys, and supervisory evaluation.
• Maintain client confidentiality as required by Maryland law and HIPAA.
• Provide high quality, compassionate and ethical care to clients as scheduled, measured by meeting productivity targets, client surveys, and supervisory evaluation.
• Provide psychiatric evaluations, behavioral health assessment, treatment, and medication management.
• Coordinate behavioral health care for assigned clients.
• Collaborate in providing services to clients in acute behavioral health crises.
• Complete all client documentation within the specified time frames according to requirements in COMAR, Meaningful Use and the CRMHS Employee Handbook.
• Refer clients for other needed services, as appropriate and/or identified in the assessment and review process.
• Maintain client confidentiality as required by Maryland law and HIPAA.
• Maintain required billable hours, with schedule responsive to client and agency needs.
• Communicate inclusively, sharing information with other professionals working with clients, including psychiatric rehabilitation agencies as appropriate.
• Actively participate as a positive member of the clinic environment.
• Attend and participate in agency team and supervision meetings.
• Comply with training requirements within the agency and maintain good standing with the appropriate board and insurance entities.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Prescriber must have formal training as a Medical Doctor with Psychiatry specialty or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse or Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner with Psychiatric-Mental Health specialty, licensed under Health Occupations Article, Annotated Code of Maryland, able to practice legally in Maryland. Professional Liability Insurance required.

Bilingual in English/Spanish is a plus and will offer pay differential for this proficiency.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to meet credentialing and privileging requirements as identified in the CRMHS Employee Handbook.
• Demonstrated ability to work with professional and non-professional colleagues effectively and to provide clinical supervision to mental health and substance use disorder professionals in a teamwork environment.
• Knowledge and experience with crisis intervention, best practices in symptom management and current medications.
• Personal stability, flexibility and commitment to working with individuals recovering from behavioral health issues.
• Skill in applying varied interventions with individuals and families of various cultures.
• Ability to work independently and implement time management strategies.
• Interpersonal skills sufficient to establish productive working relationships.
• Computer skills sufficient to enter the required data and documentation.
• Pass the agency’s background check.
• Valid driver’s license and clean driving record to support insurability by the agency’s insurance carrier.
• Work related use of a vehicle carrying minimum of 100/300/50 liability insurance.