CUCF Mental Health APRN/PA

Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurse OR Physician Assistant Note: this position is an in-person position located at the Central Utah Correctional Facility (CUCF) in Gunnison, UT . Are you licensed as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse or Physician Assistant with experience in mental health? Are you dependable, honest, and self-motivated?

Are your strengths

Attention to detail, thinking on your feet, learning new things, strong professional boundaries? If yes, then this job as a Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurse OR Mental Health Physician Assistant with the Division of Correctional Health Services is the job for you!

Job Responsibilities

• Provides direct and/or indirect patient care oriented toward improving or maintaining mental health symptoms and treating mental illness.
• Make diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of patients.
• Assess patients, diagnose conditions, order tests (laboratory tests, etc), prescribe treatment, and may provide patient and family education.
• Coordinates clinical activities and follow-up.
• Discuss results, findings and/or recommendations with appropriate parties.
• Interpret diagnostic test results for deviations from normal.
• Maintains and updates patient charts, records, and information.
• Assesses client/patient needs.
• Develops and implements plans to meet those needs in an interdisciplinary setting.
• Recommends, advocates, and/or implements new and/or changes to existing policies and procedures, or regulations.
• Works collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team.

Salary for the Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurse is $58.14 Salary for the Mental Health Physician Assistant is $58.14 Supplemental Information Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nurse Specialist Supplemental Information:

• Licensure as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in the State of Utah.
• Risks which require the use of special safety precautions and/or equipment, e.g., working around operating machines, working with contagious diseases or hazardous chemicals, etc. Work requires physical exertion.
• May require the ability to stand; walk over rough surfaces; bend, crouch, stoop, stretch, reach, lift moderately heavy items (up to 50 lbs.) in a recurring manner and/or for long periods of time.

Physician Assistant Supplemental Information

Licensure as a Physician Assistant - (1) Utah Code 58-70a-301(1) A license is required to engage in practice as a physician assistant (2) The division shall issue to a person who qualifies under this chapter a license in the classification of physician assistant.

Schedule

Monday - Friday from 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM with rotating weekend call responsibilities. Location: Central Utah Correctional Facility (CUCF) in Gunnison, UT