Description

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.

To apply, please email your CV to Heather Winston at winstonhs@archildrens.org

Requirements

Qualifications:

•         Board certification in Pediatrics and subspecialty, as appropriate.
•         Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience in behavioral health, leadership experience preferred.