Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Company Description

International Health and Medical Services delivers customized medical and security risk management and wellbeing solutions to enable our clients to operate safely and effectively in environments far from home. Founded in 1984, we operate in 92 countries providing integrated medical solutions to organizations with international operations. Our innovative technology and medical and security expertise focus on prevention, offering real-time, actionable insights and on-the-ground quality delivery.

We provide clinical services to include “hands on” direct care at over 800 sites around the world, many of which include inpatient clinical care capabilities. With 12,000 staff (including 5,200 medical and behavioral health providers) our services include the design, deployment, and operation of healthcare solutions including freestanding surgical facilities in remote and austere environments, telemedicine consultation through a wide range of virtual modalities, referrals to a global network of more than 100,000 vetted providers, and global aeromedical evacuation.

Within our portfolio of companies, International SOS Government Medical Services, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas provides contracted healthcare support to Government defense and civil agencies and government contractors, including support to military exercises and operations, diplomatic missions, natural disasters, and refugee care. To protect your workforce, we are at your fingertips:

This position is contingent upon award

International Health and Medical Services is looking for an experienced Psychiatric Advanced Practice Provider to assess, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders among patients, ensuring they receive appropriate psychiatric care and support. This role includes collaborating with the healthcare team to implement treatment plans, monitor progress, and provide crisis intervention as needed, fostering mental health and well-being.

• Evaluate, diagnosis, and treat psychiatric and mental health care patients, including family units, providing urgent and emergent mental health care, public health management, case management, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team.
• Functions within the scope of specialty under the clinical oversight of the Chief of Psychiatry, the Clinical Director, a designated consulting psychiatrist, and in accordance with a completed Scope of Practice agreement.
• Operate under well-accepted practices and principles of psychiatric and medical care providers and in accordance with the Scope of Practice and as outlined Policies.
• Consult with the Clinical Director, Psychiatrist, and other behavioral health providers for management of complex psychiatric conditions.
• Work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Coordinate mental health patient care, off-site referrals, and collaborative duties through scheduled appointments, sick call, or walk-ins.
• Diagnose and treat acute and chronic psychiatric disorders including providing counseling, support, and prescribing various medications.
• Work within and perform functions as outlined in state collaborative practice and prescriptive authority agreements.
• Apply knowledge of drugs and therapeutics when prescribing medication. Maintains safety when dispensing medications and continually cognizant of the potential hazard of drug hoarding and trafficking among detainees.
• Order and interpret diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to the detainees’ psychiatric needs.
• Utilize evidence-based tools in the identification of risks associated with medication induced movement disorders.
• Provide urgent or emergent mental health evaluation and initiate appropriate action based upon operating memorandums and policies, to include emergent use of forced psychotropic medication.
• Follow policies in the management of significant mental illness including prevention of homicidal or suicidal ideation, plan or intent.
• Provide telepsychiatry services for patients at other facilities as needed, only in the states the provider is licensed, to include working with the patient’s local primary care provider to coordinate care for any…