Advanced Practice Provider Coordinator, Mental and Behavioral Health Service Line
Arkansas Children's
Application
Details
Posted: 30-Oct-24
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses / Physician Assistants
Nurse Practitioner
Sector:
Hospital, Public and Private
Required Education:
NP
Internal Number: APP Mental Health
Arkansas Children’s Hospital is searching for an advanced practice provider leader to help build and expand the child and adolescent behavioral health services in a clinical and nonclinical environment.
The Behavioral Health Department (BHD) cares for pediatric psychiatry patients through the Emergency Department as well as inpatient. The behavioral health consult team consist of psychology, psychiatry, social work and the BERT team. The BERT team (Behavioral Emergent Response Team) assesses patients entering through the ED. The emergency department recently expanded space to include a behavioral health zone, consisting of a 4 bed safe area that has 24/7 specially trained behavioral health techs to work with the BERT team caring for patients. Arkansas Children’s has also created a crisis stabilization unit to further support kids who need a 72-96 hour stay. Typically the behavioral health team cares for 8-10 patients a day between ED and inpatient.
Opportunity:
Supervises Psychiatric Mental Health APPs in the clinical setting.
Creates and maintains a strategic plan for the APP within their department in coordination with the APP Director and Chief Mental and Behavioral Health Officer.
Responsible for coordinating all credentialing, licensing, education and QI projects for the PMH APPs.
Assists with recruitment of PMH APPs including all onboarding and orientation processes.
Partnering with PMH programs to coordinate students’ preceptor placements.
Provides direct clinical services or consultation for behavioral patients as needed by the clinical team.
Qualifications:
Board certification in Pediatrics and subspecialty, as appropriate.
Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience in behavioral health, leadership experience preferred.
ABOUT ARKANSAS CHILDREN’S
Arkansas Children's is the only health care system in the state solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas' 850,000 children. The private, non-profit organization includes two pediatric hospitals, a pediatric research institute and USDA nutrition center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and many education and outreach programs — all focused on fulfilling a promise to define and deliver unprecedented child health. Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is a 336-bed, Magnet-recognized facility in Little Rock operating the state’s only Level I pediatric trauma center; the state's only burn center; the state's only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric intensive care unit; the state’s only pediatric surgery program with Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); and the state's only nationally recognized pediatric transport program. Arkansas Children’s is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in seven pediatric subspecialties (2023—2024): Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Orthopedics, Pulmonology & Lung Surgery and Urology. Arkansas C...hildren’s Northwest (ACNW), the first and only pediatric hospital in the northwest Arkansas region, is a level IV pediatric trauma center. ACNW operates a 24-bed inpatient unit; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and northwest Arkansas' only pediatric emergency department, equipped with 30 exam rooms. Generous philanthropic and volunteer engagement has sustained Arkansas Children's since it began as an orphanage in 1912, and today ensures the system can deliver on its promise of unprecedented child health. To learn more, visit archildrens.org.
ABOUT UAMS
UAMS is the state's only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute and Institute for Digital Health & Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS' clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state's largest public employer, with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children's, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or www.uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.
