Company & Position Introduction:

PrimeCare Medical, Inc. (PCM) has been in operation since 1986. We’re a privately owned, physician founded, nationally accredited Correctional Health Care practice.

PCM provides comprehensive medical & mental health care services to over 80 county-level jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers throughout 5 states in the Northeastern US (i.e. PA, MD, WV, NY, & NH); and was voted one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies of 2019 by the Central PA Business Journal!

Correctional medicine is a unique, challenging, and exciting opportunity for today’s mental health professional in that it provides the ability to truly utilize all of your learned skills and knowledge on a daily basis. Correctional health care is the perfect hybrid of Outpatient & Inpatient Psychiatry; serving an often underserved and extremely diverse patient population and providing unrivaled scheduling flexibility around your lifestyle!

We are presently seeking a Part-Time Psychiatric Physician Assistant to work in the mental health departments at the Harford County (Bel Air, MD) and Cecil County (Elkton, MD) Detention Centers.

This position requires up to 24 hours of on-site care each week (i.e. three 8-hour shifts per week), of which up to 16 hours/week would be required at Harford County and up to 8 hours/week would be required at Cecil County. Shifts are normally Monday’s – Friday’s (i.e. no weekends) from 8:00am – 4:30pm; however, schedules are adaptable and very flexible!

To quickly summary some key points:

• Salaries are negotiable and commensurate based on experience;
• Company paid liability insurance (including tail) is provided;
• Annual licensure reimbursement is provided; and much more.

Job Duties:

In this role the PA will be performing mental health examinations on all newly incarcerated patients, as well as evaluating patients for suicide risk, and present your observations to the attending psychiatrist.

You will be responsible for performing a variety of duties, including:

• Ensuring complete, accurate and timely mental health entries are made for each inmate/patient contact.
• Providing counseling and education on common mental health problems.
• Performing histories and physicals on all newly committed inmates/patients in accordance with NCCHC/ACA Standards, facility requirements, and PCM policies and procedures.
• Complying with standards of care in accordance with NCCHC/ACA and accepted healthcare standards.
• Developing and conducting in-service education programs according to annual in-service calendar, as assigned by PCM Medical Director and/or Administrator.
• Reviewing inmate/patient records to determine mental health status and initiate necessary treatment.
• Screening inmate/patient mental health call requests to determine appropriate follow up care.
• Evaluating inmate/patients at mental health call for common complaints.
• Ordering appropriate laboratory tests and X-rays.
• Ordering specialty consultations when indicated.
• Providing other services as required at the request of the PCM Medical Director and/or Administrator.
• Providing ongoing, continuous care for inmates/patients with chronic mental health problems.
• Collecting specimens for, and carrying out commonly performed blood, urine, and stool analyses and cultures.
• Evaluating and initiating treatment in emergency mental health situations.
• Prescribing therapeutic modalities such as medications and diets in accordance with regulations.

This position is exciting and fast paced, and as such we must have someone who is able to multi-task well and has excellent time management skills.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Licensed to practice as Psych PA-C within the State of Maryland.
• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program, specialty training/certification in Psychiatry/Mental Health.
• Board Certified.
• Maintain a current CDS & DEA number.
• Experience with Additional/Detox & active X-Waiver/Buprenorphine Waiver preferred.
• Maintain a current Driver’s License.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong clinical skills and ability to work independently are a must.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

We’re committed to managing and reducing risk in correctional health care by providing cost-effective quality health care management, and continuously improving the standards of care.

Dedicated to correctional health care, PCM prides itself on our strong client relationships & effective and efficient management of health care services. These attributes continue to be the hallmark of our success. With new contracts established regularly, opportunities for development and advancement are abundant!

PCM utilizes a proprietary EMR system customized to our practice, and specifically designed for correctional health care. Said technology is user-friendly, intuitive, and always available. At PCM, we’re dedicated to your long-term success and foster this by providing individually catered training to every one of our health care providers. We teach you how to document in real-time and tactfully structure our call requirements, to ensure that you’re life outside of your career is focused on the things that truly matter.

To learn more about why PrimeCare Medical, Inc. is The Choice for Quality Correctional Health Care, please apply today to schedule a phone interview. We’re ready to speak with you about joining our PrimeCare Medical family!