Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; PMHNP

Manville School/Baker Center for Children and Families Manville School (The Baker Center) - Boston, Massachusetts Open in Google Maps

Job : 5955602

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Oct 09, 2026 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Summary of position:

The Baker Center for Children and Families (also known as Judge Baker Children's Center), promotes the best possible mental health of children and families through the integration of research, intervention, training, and policy.

The School Psychiatric Prescriber provides comprehensive psychiatric and psychopharmacological services to caseload of Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade Manville School students. The School Psychiatric Prescriber works as an integral member of an interdisciplinary team and collaborates with students, families, educators, clinicians, school leadership, and community-based providers to support students with complex behavioral health needs. The School Psychiatric Prescriber demonstrated sound clinical judgment, strong knowledge of child and adolescent behavioral health, and the ability to provide trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and evidence-based psychiatric care within a school-based setting.

What’s in it for me?

• Make a meaningful impact on the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents with complex behavioral health needs.
• Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary team where your psychiatric expertise directly supports students’ success at school and beyond.
• Provide comprehensive, evidence-based psychiatric care in a specialized school setting that values trauma-informed and culturally responsive practice.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with students, families, educators, clinicians, and community providers.
• Grow professionally through opportunities for consultation, collaboration, continuing education, and involvement in clinical and organizational initiatives.

Essential duties:

• Provides direct psychiatric and psychopharmacological services, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, medication prescribing and management, and ongoing monitoring.
• Develops and monitors individualized treatment plans in collaboration with students, families, and the interdisciplinary team.
• Monitors medication effectiveness, side effects, and clinical response, making treatment adjustments within scope of licensure and applicable regulations.
• Collaborates with therapists, educators, social workers, school leadership, families, and other professionals to support coordinated student care.
• Provides psychiatric consultation regarding diagnosis, medication management, treatment recommendations, intake, discharge, transitions, and level-of-care decisions.
• Establishes collaborative relationships with students and caregivers and actively involves them in treatment planning and clinical decision-making.
• Provides education to students and caregivers regarding psychiatric diagnoses, treatment options, medications, expected outcomes, and ongoing behavioral health needs.
• Maintains timely, accurate clinical documentation and compliance with applicable laws, licensing and prescribing requirements, confidentiality standards, and organizational policies.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Nursing from an accredited institution, with graduate-level specialization as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP).
• Graduate-level education and clinical preparation must meet all applicable requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing for advanced practice nursing.
• Current, unrestricted Massachusetts Registered Nurse (RN) license and current, unrestricted authorization to practice as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) / Nurse Practitioner in psychiatric-mental health nursing, as required by Massachusetts law.
• Current national board certification as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) through a nationally recognized certifying body, such as the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
• Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration and applicable Massachusetts prescribing authority, when required for the position and scope of practice.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, when required by organizational policy, clinical setting, or applicable regulatory requirements.

• Minimum of 2–3 years of clinical experience providing…