Full-Time Nurse Practitioner /Physician Assistant – Mental Health
Job Description
TWO OPENINGS
Horizon Behavioral Health is the premier behavioral healthcare provider in Central Virginia, serving the area for more than 45 years. Horizon provides clinical services to more than 9,000 adults and children with mental health disorders, substance use issues, and intellectual disabilities. With Horizon’s new EHR and realigned portfolio of services, we are ready to move behavioral healthcare to the next level.
We are actively recruiting enthusiastic recruiting providers to work either with our adult or child populations.
Child/Adolescent Population:
Needed to provide medical evaluations and mental health medical management across 8 community CSBs which includes telemedicine. The NP or PA should be able to perform psychiatric evaluation with assessment and create plan of care and treatment, working in close cooperation with case managers, and attend occasional meetings with the clinicians and case managers assigned to certain patients. On-call is not required.
Requirements: Experience with children and in behavioral health setting required. Applicants must be currently, or able to be, licensed in the state of Virginia.
Adult Population:
The Nurse Practitioner or Physician assistant provides direct services to chronically mentally ill adults and dually diagnosed adults (mental illness, substance abuse, and/or intellectual disabilities). The NP or PA is responsible for providing psychiatric evaluations, consultations, and medication management services to adult psychiatric and detoxification patients in a community residential short term setting and clients in an outpatient clinic setting.
This position works Monday through Friday (8:30a-5p) with no on-call.
Requirements: Experience with adults in a behavioral health setting required. Applicants must be currently, or able to be, licensed in the state of Virginia.
Lynchburg, VA is a historic and attractive city with many amenities available throughout the city and surrounding counties. Located in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lynchburg has something to offer everyone! To forward your CV or for more information please contact: Michael.Johnson@HorizonBH.org or call (434) 455-3436.
*Position may be eligible for tuition reimbursement through National Health Service Corp (NHSC)
