Part Time - Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Description

• Excellent provider judgment
• Compassion towards people in recovery and in mental health treatment
• Willingness to work with patients of all backgrounds and populations
• Patience with client population
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a healthcare team

• Consulting with the medical director, Director of Nursing, nursing staff, and clinical team on patient care and services
• Developing, evaluating, and reviewing patient treatment plans and assessments as needed
• History & Physical exams, and Initial Psychiatric Evaluations for new admissions and medical/psychiatric patient follow-ups on a regular basis
• Prescribing medication to patients as needed
• Attends staff training and meetings as required by the employer
• Communicating with pharmacy as needed
• Signing off on Gene Sight testing and ordering/reviewing lab results as needed
• Completing notes and signing off on orders within 24hrs of the patient being seen
• Other duties as assigned

• Master’s degree in nursing
• Licensed PMHNP/psych-experienced FNP with board certification
• Graduate of an ANCC or AANP accredited nurse practitioner program
• Have an X-Waiver (preferred) and DEA license with active prescriptive authority
• Able to read, analyze, and interpret policies and directions, and present information effectively, both orally and written
• Ability to deal with both chemically dependent and individuals in psychiatric care in a nonjudgmental, compassionate fashion
• Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with other staff as well as with referral sources
• Job requires regular sitting, standing, walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, writing, etc. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, implements, or office equipment; talk and hear; stand and walk, reach with hands and arms; stoop or kneel. The employee must occasionally lift up to 50 pounds and occasionally be able to assist an adult weighing 100-200 pounds.
  
  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions from a wide variety of data and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

This position is an in-person/office work environment. There will be daily face-to-face interaction with staff and clients. The workday will vary, but it will often include sitting at a desk, working on a computer, meeting with clients, and completing paperwork. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.