Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner; Residential Treatment Facility

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (Residential Treatment Facility) Job Description

Posted Friday, February 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Are you passionate about delivering compassionate, trauma-informed psychiatric care and shaping brighter futures for young people?

Join OLV Human Services as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and make a lasting impact in the lives of youth!

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO), including paid holidays
• Health, dental & vision insurance options
• Paid Employer sponsored life insurance.
• Supplemental insurance programs for additional life insurance, short-term disability, accident & cancer insurance
• Up to $600 every year for completing biometric health screenings on a single health insurance plan & up to $1,200 if a spouse also completes
• Up to $180 annual gym reimbursement
• Take advantage of our Dental & Outpatient Mental Health services while working
• Employee referral program

Salary Range:

Salary Range: $,000/annually

The annual salary for this position will be determined based on years of qualified experience.

Job Summary:

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) co-leads the overall medical and psychosocial wellbeing of the patients receiving services at OLV Human Services, ensuring the best possible health outcomes for the individuals in treatment. Scope of practice includes evaluating psychosocial conditions, prescribing psychotropic medications, and medication management. Attend and participate in client screenings. Individuals supported include youth in the OMH Residential Treatment Facility.

Providing on-call responsibilities.

• Provide diagnostic examinations for client intake, including interviews with patients, family and other providers; observing behaviors; reviewing medical history and related documents; selecting, administering, and interpreting psychological tests; ordering laboratory tests and evaluating results.
• Collaborate with therapists concerning developing treatment plans aligned with evidence based practices, by determining nature and extent of cognitive, emotional developmental, social, and behavioral disorders, establishing treatment goals and methodologies.
• Treat patients by utilizing psychotherapeutic methods and medications; discussing progress and providing instructions to patients, family and providers; monitoring effects of medications, ensuring alignment with standard psychiatric treatment guidelines.
• Triage and treat in emergent situations, as appropriate for the clinical setting, including referral of emergent conditions beyond the scope of care at location, as appropriate.
• Member of interdisciplinary treatment team, consulting and collaborating with primary care physicians, mental health therapists, nurses, and other health care providers.
• Maintains accurate and complete patient records, ensuring timely completion in OLV Human Services EMR.
• Work directly with all the clinical treatment team on all aspects of operation as well as providing staff training for clinical competence.
• Completes Continuing Education as required for NYS Licensure; updates job knowledge by participation in continuing medical educational opportunities; maintain professional networks; participate in professional organizations; explore new and different opportunities to add value to job accomplishments and the agency.
• Additional duties as the program designates.
• Comply with all federal and state regulations and agency policies pertaining to HIPAA, false claims, whistle blower policies and all others.
• Performs all other job-related duties assigned by supervisor.

Skills:

• Key medical competencies for psychiatric practices
• Clinical knowledge of appropriate evidence-based treatment modalities for children and families
• Knowledge of OMH regulatory expectations
• Knowledge of electronic record keeping
• Communication
  :
  Oral and written
• Attention to detail
  :
  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Problem solving
  :
  Takes a systematic approach to solving problems rather than reacting to symptoms.
• Decision-making ability
  :
  The aptitude to extract, interpret, integrate and manage information correctly and make timely and concise decisions for the best course of action, among multiple alternatives, to enable the decision-making process to take place on a higher level to achieve objectives.
• Dependability
  :
  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.

Education:

Experience: Minimum Experience

Required:

1-year post-medical degree experience

Required License/Registration/ Certification: Board Certified Licensed Psychiatric
-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) preferred

Training Requirements:

Physical Requirements:

The overall nature of the position is sedentary, requiring little physical effort with occasional light physical exertion required. There is little, if there is any, exposure to environmental conditions.

• constant physical demand of the position is sitting.
• frequent physical demands of the position are standing, walking, climbing, talking, hearing,…