Virtual Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - ARNP Eating Disorders

Opal Food and Body Wisdom•Seattle, WA

7h•Remote

About The Position

Opal: Food+Body Wisdom is a local, female owned and clinician-led eating disorder treatment facility in the University District of Seattle, Washington that offers Partial Hospitalization Program and Intensive Outpatient Program. Radically Open Dialectical Therapy, Exercise+Sport programming and clinic wide weight-inclusive practices are infused throughout our treatment. With Opal’s founders and clinical leadership team being experienced clinicians and closely involved in the day to day treatment, staff are able to learn from experienced clinicians and see the integration of these unique treatment offerings in a higher level of care setting. RO DBT is the foundational treatment approach offered to our clients, as evidenced by specialized groups created and led by Dr. Lexi Giblin, who is intensively trained in RO DBT and an RO DBT Alumni Senior Clinician. RO DBT skills classes, meal support approach, self-inquiry group, and more offer clients a wrap around RO DBT treatment experience. Opal staff have the regular opportunity to learn about RO DBT through staff training and apply their knowledge by co-leading groups and supporting clients through an RO DBT lens. We offer regular and robust programming for ALL of our clients to explore their relationship with exercise, sport and movement. We offer individual exercise experientials for all of our clients as well as specific groups to address relationship with movement. Staff interested and trained to be part of this programming is supervised by co-founder Kara Bazzi who has 20 years of experience and expertise in integrating relationship with movement into eating disorder care. As a clinic that was founded in 2012 on Health at Every Size principles and continually informed by weight-inclusivity and the Anti-Diet movement, we aim for systemic and individual application of a non-diet and non-weight based approach to food and body. Staff can expect to have a work environment that celebrates body diversity and freedom with food. Clinical learning opportunities abound in group and individual therapy where our understanding is stretched about how to effectively deliver inclusive eating disorder treatment that can lead to healing for individuals in all sized bodies. Our passionate staff come together, in a newly renovated facility, to support our clients by offering a warm healing environment for the hard work of eating disorder recovery. Staff are able to enjoy work spaces that are fully furnished, with bright daylight, comfortable furniture, and modern technology. As a member of Opal’s staff you would have opportunities to showcase your strengths and work alongside a staff that is innovative and passionate about the application of RODBT, weight-inclusive practices, and exercise+sport in eating disorder treatment.

Requirements

Must be certified to practice as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner in Washington State with specific psychiatric credential
Ability to prescribe for ages 16 and above
Comfort with electronic health record systems
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Practice medicine and live personally in a way that reflects a non-diet, weight-inclusive relationship with food and body
Exhibit a high degree of confidentiality and personal boundary setting

Nice To Haves

Experience working with eating disorders and athletes strongly desired
Approachability and compassion, with an emotional awareness of client’s needs and one’s relationship with the client
A high degree of confidentiality and personal boundary setting; coupled well with value of modeling for clients and staff
Adaptability and flexibility.
High value of collaboration with multidisciplinary treatment teams
Experience working with clients with eating disorders

Responsibilities

Provide medication management for intensive outpatient (IOP) and partial hospitalization (PHP) clients
Perform comprehensive psychiatric evaluations
Prescribe and manage psychotropic medication based on a knowledge of pharmacological and physiological principles in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations
Provide staff consultation and attend weekly staff consult meeting, as needed
Conduct insurance reviews as part of insurance utilization review process, as needed
Collaboration with other members of a multidisciplinary treatment team, including outside primary care
Maintain clinical documentation and other administrative tasks required for competent care
Provide psychiatric program leadership