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This position is within our Refresh Mental Health (RMH) organization at Life Strategies, which provides a variety of behavioral and mental health treatments, including individual and group therapy, schools, home health, and outpatient programs.

We seek board-certified/board-eligible psychiatrists to join our outstanding team. This is a center based position with some schools in Cabot, AR.

Summary: Under the direction of the Medical Director, this position is responsible for providing psychological care to outpatient clients by performing the following duties.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Provides psychiatric care, medication assessments, and crisis response to new and existing outpatient clients
• Develops individual evaluations based upon assessment data and provides therapeutic interventions as necessary including the provision of on-going medication management services
• Review, evaluate, and collaborate with other professionals to discuss treatment plans, progress, and outcomes
• Manage caseload and documentation; maintains documentation of services including service plans, progress notes, medication informed consent, treatment plan reviews and other required information in compliance with LSCI, RSPMI, Joint Commission and any other third-party compliance standards
• Provides consultation and health education to agency staff and clients as it is relative to the treatment and medication needs of agency clients
• Responsive to psychiatric emergencies for appropriate intervention and evaluations
• Receives medical supervision from the Medical Director (Psychiatrist) for administration and maintenance of psychiatric care to patients, consistent with the applicable regulations in the state of Arkansas
• Practice in accordance with the respective state laws and regulations governing the practice of psychiatric advance practice nursing.
• Other duties as assigned

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Clean and unrestricted Arkansas license
• Board Certified or Board Eligible Psychiatrist
• Expertise and experience treating children, adolescents, and families would be viewed positively
• Proven excellent communication, patient relations, time management skills, and safety awareness

Advantages:

• No on-call, no evenings, no weekends, and no holidays
• Outstanding work/life balance
• Up to $50k in NHSC funds available
• Health, dental, vision, 401k w/ match available with W2 model
• Flexible work schedule
• Malpractice insurance provided
• Health, dental, vision, 401k w/ match available with a minimum of 30 hrs/wk
• EAP, Student Loan Forgiveness Program, Incentivized Referral Bonus Program, Free CME Program, and more for FT employees
• Collaboration with some of the brightest minds in Psychiatry

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.   

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment 

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