Full Job Description
The Integrative Psychiatry Physician Assistant functions as a highly valued member of the Colorado Recovery Solutions team. This role provides medication management in accordance with harm reduction principles, minimizing all controlled substance prescriptions, including benzodiazepines and stimulants. The Integrative Psychiatry Physician Assistant is a leader and person of integrity. They are highly motivated and solutions-focused, maintaining professionalism and positivity.
Description
Our Company:
Colorado Recovery Solutions, located in beautiful, mountainous Colorado, was founded in early 2021 in Colorado Springs as an outpatient neuropsychiatric recovery center by Dr. Ashley Johnson, DO- a long-time Air Force Veteran and interventional psychiatrist. CRS was designed from its inception to provide the most effective, cutting-edge neuropsychiatric treatments with a focus on improving brain health and quality of life for those suffering from common mental health, substance use disorders, and chronic pain.
Our centers provide advanced medical therapies, including, but not limited to, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Ketamine infusion, Spravato (esketamine) nasal spray, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, and neuropsychiatric medication management. CRS strives to provide high-quality, collaborative care to military veterans, civilian first responders, their family members, and the Greater Colorado Springs and Monument, Colorado communities.
Job Summary:
The Integrative Psychiatry Physician Assistant functions as a highly valued member of the Colorado Recovery Solutions team. This role provides medication management in accordance with harm reduction principles, minimizing all controlled substance prescriptions, including benzodiazepines and stimulants.
The Integrative Psychiatry Physician Assistant is a leader and person of integrity. They are highly motivated and solutions-focused, maintaining professionalism and positivity.
Scope of Duties: Essential Functions
Patient Care
- Provide patient care in an outpatient setting or via telehealth as needed.
- Conduct psychiatric evaluations and assessments using various methods, such as interviewing the patient, their family, or others.
- Diagnose mental health conditions.
- Develop tailored treatment plans according to the patient’s needs and the extent of the emotional, social, cognitive, developmental, or behavioral disorder.
- Treat patients using psychotherapeutic methods and medication, monitoring the effects of any medication and adjusting treatment where necessary.
- Prescribe and monitor ketamine infusions and TMS.
- Administer psychiatric rating scales and conduct pre-treatment assessments.
- Provide medication management, adhering to harm reduction principles and minimizing controlled substance prescriptions.
- Order, obtain, and assess appropriate laboratory tests and diagnostics, making clinical decisions based on results.
- Identify and address past, current, and potential health problems.
- There are NO on-call or weekend requirements
Collaboration & Supervision
- Consult with CRS collaborating physicians frequently.
- Communicate with a team of medical providers across multiple locations.
- Coordinate patient care with other healthcare professionals, including Primary Care Physicians.
- Provide supervision and consultation to nurses, medical assistants, and technicians.
Documentation & Compliance
- Maintain accurate patient records, completed and signed within 48 business hours after clinical encounters.
- Document treatment details, lifestyle changes, and medication or supplements prescribed.
- Follow ethical and legal standards in all practices.
- Ensure licensure as a Physician Associate or Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in Colorado, in good standing.
Holistic Approach
- Employ a holistic treatment approach that considers medical comorbidities, lifestyle, nutrition, and family systems.
- Minimize controlled substance prescriptions.
Professional Development
- Stay updated on psychiatry advancements through continuous education and networking.
Professional Standards
- Deliver medical and behavioral health services in collaboration with the CRS medical team.
- Uphold Colorado Recovery Solutions’ mission: “Providing hope and healing for treatment-resistant and complex neuropsychiatric conditions.”
Skill Requirements:
- Maintain a professional appearance, demeanor, and compassionate, ethical patient interactions in a mental health setting
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; effective team collaboration
- Excellent work ethic and organizational skills; detail- and outcome-oriented
- Willingness to learn and adapt; ability to manage multiple tasks under stress
- Maintain strong patient boundaries, strict confidentiality, and high integrity
- Logical reasoning
- Sensitivity and perceptiveness
- Deductive and inductive reasoning skills
- Empathy and compassion
- Creation and implementation of treatment plans
- Evaluation and management documentation
- Diagnosis and treat mental illnesses
Qualifications :
Required
- Completion of a physician assistant, PA-C program
- Current CPR certification
- Active PA-C license in the State of Colorado or compact licensure – without restrictions
Preferred
- At least 1 year of licensed medical practice
- At least 1 year of practice in a mental health setting
- Certificate of Added Qualifications in Psychiatry (CAQ-Psy)
- Military Veteran status, military spouse, or previous work in military/government helping agencies or underserved populations
- Additional training or certification in Integrative Psychiatry, Addiction, and/or Psychedelic Medicine.
Physical Requirements:
- Full range of body motions, including manual and finger dexterity and hand-eye coordination
- Some sitting, bending, stooping, and stretching
- Standing and walking
- Occasional lifting of up to 20 pounds.
- Must have adequate hearing and speaking ability to communicate with co-workers and others in person, by phone, and via online correspondence.
Colorado Recovery Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. Applicants may redact age-related information from additional application materials, including, but not limited to, resumes, CVs, transcripts, and certifications. (DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Division of Labor Standards and Statistics POSTING, SCREENING, AND TRANSPARENCY RULES (“POST Rules”) 7 CCR 1103-18)
Salary
$52.88 – $55.28 per hour