We’re not just behavioral health people—we’re crisis people.

Connections has built a model that combines medical and recovery-oriented treatment that gets people connected to community-based resources and back to their lives faster.  Our aim is for solutions, not just stop-gaps. Real support, not restriction.  We have proven that our model improves access, creates hope and makes the behavioral health crisis system work better, and we’re finding better ways to do it every day.

Our story

Originally founded by two emergency room psychiatrists, Dr. Chris Carson and Dr. Robert Williamson, Connections Health Solutions brings 30 years of experience serving individuals in crisis and operates two of the nation’s largest and most studied crisis response centers in Phoenix and Tucson Arizona.  Since opening our doors we have provided care and treatment for hundreds of thousands of individuals in crisis.

We are hiring a PRN Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant who will direct, coordinate, and provide medical/clinical services to specified consumers within the facility, including, but not limited to: intervention, assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment planning, medication management, engagement, family meetings, supportive psychotherapy, patient education, risk assessment and discharge planning.

What You'll Do:

• Serves as the attending clinician to specified consumers. Completes initial psychiatric assessments, crisis interventions, family interventions, focused crisis diagnostic assessments, assessments of capacity for consent to treatment, risk assessments, patient education, progress toward treatment goals, and discharge planning including medical, psychological, social, behavioral and developmental aspects of the consumer’s care, treatment, and services.
• Documents consumer’s progress in the clinical record including admission order, progress notes, and discharge orders. Oversees delivery of medication education and consent, according to established policy.
• Orders laboratory tests according to standards of clinical practice. Reviews the health assessment completed by nursing staff, obtains a past and current medical history, and conducts a focused physical examination as indicated, according to established guidelines. Initiates contact with Primary Care Physicians and Emergency Room clinicians according to established guidelines.
• Assesses consumers’ needs and guides the clinical team while managing treatment plan updates, in addition to initiating contact with Outpatient Behavioral Health Provider according to established guidelines. Reviews and utilizes all available documents from the crisis clinical team.
• Provides necessary information to clinical team regarding inpatient utilization. Utilizes appropriate medication based on best practices.
• Collaborates with other personnel to ensure that each treatment modality is appropriate for the consumer in addition to working with outside psychiatric providers in crisis and inpatient services. Works with the community to review involuntary petitions, assess involuntary patients, and coordinate with the legal system to follow established guidelines for Court Ordered Evaluation and Treatment.
• Participates in medical staff meetings including regional and quarterly meetings; participates in all required CRC/UPC meetings; and participates in any meeting as requested by Medical Leadership

What You'll Bring:

• Level 1 fingerprint card 
• NP: Unrestricted Registered Nursing license in the State of Arizona. Completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program with a Master’s level certification in Psychiatric Mental Health (PMHNP).
• PA: Completion of an accredited Physician Assistant program.
• Licensed in the State of Arizona and National Certifications.
• 3 years of experience in the delivery of crisis mental health and/or delivery of family health treatment to children, adolescents, and/or adults.
• Unrestricted DEA license.

It would be great if you had:

• NP: Dual certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Doctorate of Nursing Practice.
• DEA X license.