CRC Advance Practice Nurse Practitioner

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Are you looking to join a company that makes a difference? Do you want to be part of an organization with a commitment to an inclusive and supportive culture? Do you enjoy company-wide staff events with opportunities for team building and getting to know your co-workers?

Join our team of compassionate, empathetic, and dedicated staff!

With a career at Riveon Mental Health and Recovery, you’ll partner with a talented group of individuals in a team atmosphere, including a supportive and knowledgeable leadership team. You’ll also have access to a wealth of opportunities for your personal growth and development.

Riveon Mental Health and Recovery is a leader in providing behavioral health services to adults, adolescents, and children. We engage people in our community to achieve mental and emotional well-being through prevention, treatment, and advocacy. With the merger of The LCADA Way and The Nord Center, at Riveon Mental Health and Recovery we have the opportunity to provide integrated behavioral health care with cutting edge treatments and interventions in a supportive environment.

We are looking for passionate, caring, and dedicated counselors and social workers to provide office-based and telehealth services to our clients.

The Crisis Recovery Center will transform crisis care by providing 24/7 walk-in behavioral health services meant to immediately identify, triage, address, stabilize and treat persons in mental health crisis and assist those who have substance abuse withdrawal needs.

The Nurse Practitioner provides outpatient psychiatric services to diverse populations that include patients diagnosed with severe and persistent mental issues as well as patients suffering with non-persistent mental illnesses in a community mental health setting.

• Performs psychiatric evaluations on new patients as clinically appropriate
• Incorporates the new or revised medical treatment plan into the existing Electronic Health Record (EHR).
• Maintains necessary and required concurrent documentation within the EHR.
• Conducts Peer Review activities as required.
• Attends Psychiatric, Clinical and other Agency meetings as required.
• Works collaboratively with staff to coordinate care to patients
• Completes documentation required to assist clients if clinically indicated
• Prescribes psychotropic medications.
• Facilitates communication with Providers outside of the agency when laboratory abnormalities are discovered.
• Assists other nurses with implementing medical treatment and tracking procedures.
• Meets regularly with collaborating Psychiatrist to effectively communicate about cases.
• Collaborates actively with client s treatment team to ensure best care and common treatment goals.
• Achieves required productivity expectation.
• Reacts to change and stress productively.
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance and punctuality.
• Gets along with others and works as a team.
• Exhibits the knowledge, skills, abilities, and minimum requirements listed in this Position Description.
• Other duties as assigned.

• A Master’s degree in Nursing and certification as an Advanced Practice Nurse with prescriptive authority.
• Certification as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner is preferred.
• One year of experience working with individuals who have been diagnosed with a chronic mental illness is required.
• The employee must possess exceptional oral and written communications skills.
• Basic computer skills required, including familiarity with Windows and Microsoft Office.
• The employee must be able to conduct business in a professional manner.
• Must exhibit cultural sensitivity.
• Bilingual abilities (especially, Spanish and English) are not required, but a great advantage for this position.
• Favorable references and/or evaluations.

• The work is mainly provided in an office setting, although travel may be required dependent upon services contracted through other agencies such as medical, rehabilitation, or correctional settings. Because of the variety of environments and physical conditions that will be encountered, this…