Job Description

Description and Functions

Open Until Filled

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

Join our team at the Wyoming State Hospital and fulfill your passion for serving others and making a difference in your community while starting a state government career. This position provides psychiatric services in an inpatient hospital setting for an adult population in collaboration with other healthcare professionals. Evanston is a small Rocky Mountain community that is a 45-minute drive from Park City Utahs world-famous ski slopes. Evanston is excellent for recreational activities such as hiking camping fishing biking snowmobiling and cross-country skiing.

Working for the State of Wyoming offers more than a paycheck. Our total compensation package includes:

• Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance

• Paid vacation sick leave FMLA and holidays

• Retirement - Pension and 457B plans that help you build a secure future

• Flexible schedules and work-life balance options

• Meaningful work that makes a difference for Wyoming communities

and MUCH MORE! Click here for detailed information or you can watch this short video to learn about our benefit package!

Human Resource Contact: Brenda Hales / /

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The listed functions are illustrative only and are not intended to describe every function which may be performed in the job level.

• Provide psychiatric assessment diagnosis and treatment to patients in a hospital setting.
• Provide ongoing psychiatric assessments and treatment to patients.
• Participate in a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
• Perform on-call clinical coverage as needed and directed by the hospital medical director.
• Maintain all appropriate paperwork required for patient care in a timely manner.
• Assist in follow-up planning for the discharge of patients.
• Maintain an active role in updating treatment plans.
• Participate in committees and perform administrative duties as directed by the medical director.

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE:

• Knowledge of psychopharmacology medication side effects risks and benefits.
• Knowledge of diagnostic criteria for psychiatric illness.
• Knowledge of how co-morbid conditions (medical and neurological conditions substance
• use intellectual limitations) can affect psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.
• Knowledge of the guidelines rules and regulations regarding prescribing practices.
• Knowledge of federal state laws governing psychiatric practice.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

As required by Wyoming State Licensing Board

Certificates Licenses Registrations:

Must be licensed or eligible for licensure as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse or a Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner by the Wyoming Board of Nursing.

Necessary Special Requirements

PHYSICAL WORKING CONDITIONS:

Ability to bend lift twist push pull etc. as would be expected to provide patient care and treatment in the clinic and
hospital settings.

NOTES:

• FLSA: Exempt
• At-Will position
• Pre-employment drug and alcohol testing will be conducted on safety-sensitive positions. Drug testing will be
• completed on any position if reasonable suspicion exists.
• A background check including the taking of fingerprints will be completed through the Wyoming Department of
• Criminal Investigation the Department of Family Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for every
• successful applicant.
• We participate in E-Verify.
• The Wyoming Department of Health offers an excellent benefits package including medical/dental/vision/life
• insurance paid vacation and sick leave paid holidays state retirement plan deferred compensation plan and
• longevity pay.

Supplemental Information

Click here to view the State of Wyoming Classification and Pay Structure.

URL: State of Wyoming is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively supports the ADA and reasonably accommodates qualified applicants with disabilities.

Class Specifications are subject to change please refer to the A & I HRD Website to ensure that you have the most recent version.

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