SHARP Employer App. Part 2

Employer Recruitment Prerogative
The Employer Recruitment Prerogative (ERP) is a SHARP provided option for an authorized employer to assert the availability of a support-for-service award, even if the employer is still in its hiring phase. SHARP makes this option available by signing the ERP agreement and the employer is then enabled to offer with certainty the support-for-service benefit. ERP authorization allows the employer to pose the offer of support-for-service benefit throughout the recruitment process. For further detail about the ERP option, please consult our SHARP-3 Guidelines Manual, in the section entitled “Employer Recruitment Prerogative.”
As the employer, are you applying for the ERP option? *

Yes No
When do you want the ERP opportunity to begin?

Month Day Year
Date
How will your receipt of an ERP award increase the effectiveness of your search for a quality clinician-candidate?
Do you understand that:
The ERP option terminates if there is no Letter of Intent-to-Hire issued within six months of the employer ERP registration?

Yes No
Alaska DHSS bears no responsibility for any recruitment expense(s) incurred by either the employer or any other entity?

Yes No
SHARP does not pay any retroacive payment(s) for any clinician's work time that occurs prior to the effective date of the clinician's SHARP service contract?

Yes No

Request to Designate Position as Very Hard-to-Fill
SHARP allows for selected positions to be designated as very hard-to-fill. The default chracterization of a position is regular-fill. However, some employers may face considerable and ongoing difficulty recruiting and retaining practitioners for certain positions. SHARP may designate these positions as very hard-to-fill, which provides additional support-for-service payment to practitioners by increasing the maximum allowable SHARP support-for-service benefit to a level above that provided for a regular position.
When an employer requests that a position be designated as very hard-to-fill, the burden of proof that the position is indeed eligible as very hard- to-fill falls to the employer.
Does the site wish for this position to be designated as very hard-to-fill? Note: if yes, site must submit additional required documentation below. *

Yes No
Has the position been open 12 months or longer?

Yes No
Attach evidence of postings (in any media) for last 12 months

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Cancel of
Has position been filled by a locum tenens or other short-term staffing during last 12 months or more?

Yes No
Attach evidence of prior fill by locum tenens or other short-term practitioner

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Cancel of
Will filling this position replace a current locum tenens or other short-term staff?

Yes No
Length of time of active recruitment:
What was the actual date of this initial job posting?

Month Day Year
Date
Attached copy of actual posting showing dates

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Cancel of
Where did the job posting appear in the last 12 months? Journals, newspapers, internet, etc.
Attach evidence of each type of posting that is asserted

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Cancel of
Interviews conducted during most recent 12 months, respond once for every non-duplicated interviewee:
Date of interview 1

Month Day Year
Date
Why not hired?
Date of interview 2

Month Day Year
Date
Why not hired?
Date of interview 3

Month Day Year
Date
Why not hired?

Substance Abuse Treatment Clinicians
SHARP also seeks to increase the recruitment and retention of substance abuse treatment (SAT) practitioners, and especially as regards those who provide medication-assisted treatment. The following two occupation-groups are relevant for this additional consideration: (a) those who may provide MAT (Tier-1: Psychiatrist, Primary Care Physician, Doctor of Nursing Practice; Tier-2: Physician Assistant, and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse); and (b) those who may provide credentialled substance abuse counseling (Tier-1: Psychologists (clinical or counseling); Tier-2: Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist; and Tier-3: Substance Use Disorder Counselor (as defined in 7 AAC 135.990). (Note that SUD Counselors without a Tier-2 license are not eligible in SHARP-1, but rather are eligible only in SHARP-3, Tier-3).
Will this position provide substance abuse treatment? *

Yes No
What percentage of this position's caseload will provide substance abuse treatment?

Specify "other" above:
Is this position part of a team in your agency that provides Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)?

Yes No
Will this position directly provide MAT?

Yes No
State why this position should be a priority for receiving the SHARP service award:

Clinicians to Replace Locum Tenens
SHARP seeks to recruit practitioners who will become long-term employees to fill positions currently occupied by temporary staffers (e.g. locum tenens). The purpose is three-fold: (a) to directly assist selected employers who overuse temporary staffing; (b) to demonstrate that support-for-service can help achieve long-term staffing solutions; and (c) to demonstrate that meaningful cost-savings can result.
Have you used a temporary clinician in the last 12 months to fill this position? *

Yes No
Will filling this position replace a currently used temporary clinician?

Yes No
Total months temporary staffing used during last 12 months
Months
Where did the temporary staff come from?
Location
Did you use a temporary staffing agency?

Yes No
Name of main temporary staffing agency?

State why this position should be a priority for receiving the SHARP service award:

Position Submission
Any other comments or notes
As attested to in Part 1 of the SHARP Employer Application, I certify by submitting below that all data contained in this application and any additional documents submitted are accurate and may be substantiated by a records review.
Authorized Employer Representative's Name *

First Name Last Name
Representative's email *
example@example.com
Should be Empty:

SHARP Employer Application Part 2- Position Information

Position Information

Employer Recruitment Prerogative

Request to Designate Position as Very Hard-to-Fill

Substance Abuse Treatment Clinicians

Clinicians to Replace Locum Tenens

Position Submission