Pay is commensurate with experience within a range of $280,000 to $320,000 salary. Full time, exempt, benefits eligible. Bert Nash offers excellent benefits which include: 

• medical 
• dental 
• vision 
• KPERS retirement 
• life insurance 
• an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing free counseling and resources 
• generous PTO

Caring. Hope. Giving back. Our mission at the Bert Nash Center as the Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) of Douglas County is to advance the health of the community through comprehensive behavioral health services responsive to evolving needs and changing environments. We accomplish this by believing in our team. Each person that works for the Bert Nash Center contributes directly to the success of our clients, organization, and community. Our values of compassion, integrity, equity and hope reflect in everything we do.

Job Summary

Crisis stabilization and recovery is an integrative healthcare service. The crisis care community:

• Involves a team approach with the Medical Director of Crisis Services, working in a cooperative fashion with operational leaders
• Requires the Medical Director of Crisis Services to set the tone and direction for the system of care
• Requires the Medical Director of Crisis Services to possess a unique set of skills and knowledge

This position performs administrative functions and serves as a key leader in the development and oversite of the facility. This position directs care through identification and implementation of treatment approaches and guidelines for the facility and leads, coordinates, and provides medical/clinical services to specified consumers within the facility. The Medical Director is responsible for the clinical effectiveness and quality of care provided by the team psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants. As a Member of the facility's Executive team, they are aligned and fully participate with the management team insetting direction for the agency.

The Medical Director of Crisis Services has responsibility and authority to direct: (Including but not limited to)

• Establishing the program's policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Functions as site representative/clinical leader regarding clinical care and practices for regulatory agencies, facility and external stakeholders.
• Ensures agency operations follow all applicable regulatory and licensing regulations.
• Familiarity with the legal guidelines and the intersection with the treatment of patients (23 hour holds, involuntary medication and Care and Treatment statutes)
• Communicates the mission and the direction of the agency to clinical staff so that staff fully understand all initiatives of the service.
• Advises management team on staffing requirements and participates in discussions on making fiscally responsible choices in all operations.
• Maintains liaison with the medical community, area hospitals and the Managed Care Organizations to facilitate optimal clinical care.
• Performs medical review of all clinical practices, including safety protocols.
• Performance improvement activities

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Serves as an example of clinical and operational excellence.
• Provides oversight of all psychiatric providers, both employed and contracted and has direct supervisory responsibility for psychiatric nurse practitioners.
• Supervises medical students, residents, contracted psychiatrists and nurse practitioners
• Acts as a point of clinical contact and supervisory role in-person or by telecommunication at all hours of the day/week (PTO excluded). Serves as Administrator on Call for the Medical Team.
• Performs duties associated with the position of Psychiatrist-in-the-clinic. Completes initial psychiatric assessments, crisis interventions, family interventions, focused crisis diagnostic assessments, assessments of capacity for consent to treatment, risk assessments, patient education, progress towards treatment goals, and discharge planning including medical psychological, social, behavioral and developmental aspects of the consumer's care, treatment, and services.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: (Including but not limited to)

• Doctorate of Medicine or Osteopathic Medicine and completion of psychiatric residency training programs, in the delivery of mental health treatment of children, adolescents, and/or adults and detoxification and withdrawal management.
• Licensure: Board Certified or Board eligible with an unrestricted licensure in the state of Kansas.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of post-residency psychiatric care experience
• Prior administrative experience
• Knowledge of policies, procedures, and regulatory expectations
• Strong demonstrated leadership skills
• Effective Communication