Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Practitioner

Job Purpose

The Psychiatric Mental Health NP Supervisor plays a critical role in supporting integrated behavioral health care within a collaborative care model, focusing on high-risk populations including individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUD), or complex mental health needs impacting overall health outcomes and care utilization. This role provides psychiatric expertise to behavioral health care managers, primary care providers, and interdisciplinary teams, guiding treatment planning, monitoring patient progress via registries, and ensuring timely care adjustments.

In alignment with organizational key performance indicators, the Psychiatric Mental Health NP Supervisor contributes to system design, quality improvement initiatives, and program development efforts aimed at enhancing behavioral health integration, reducing readmissions, and closing care gaps across the continuum.

The Psychiatric Mental Health NP Supervisor plays a critical role in supporting integrated behavioral health care within a collaborative care model, focusing on high-risk populations including individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUD), or complex mental health needs impacting overall health outcomes and care utilization. This role provides psychiatric expertise to behavioral health care managers, primary care providers, and interdisciplinary teams, guiding treatment planning, monitoring patient progress via registries, and ensuring timely care adjustments.

In alignment with organizational key performance indicators, the Psychiatric Mental Health NP Supervisor contributes to system design, quality improvement initiatives, and program development efforts aimed at enhancing behavioral health integration, reducing readmissions, and closing care gaps across the continuum.

• Direct evaluation of patients with significant diagnostic or therapeutic challenges who are identified in discussion with the patient’s behavioral health care manager and/or primary care provider.
• The target population are generally participants with serious mental illness (SMI) or substance use disorder (SUD) or a determined unstable mental illness that is contributing to their cost and utilization pattern. Such consultation may be provided in person or via telemedicine (video or telephone). Participants are identified through top-down registry enrollment and bottom-up referrals.
• Be well versed with integrated behavioral health models and collaborative care.
• Support registry management work, outreach to membership and care gaps closure.
• Provide regularly scheduled consultation to behavioral health care manager and IDT on a weekly basis.
• Build a behavioral health program that is aligned with organizational KPIs particularly in managing transitions episodes and readmissions.
• Case review consultations focus primarily on participants who are new to the caseload, not improving as expected under their current treatment plan, in a transition episode or determined to be high risk. Case reviews may be conducted by telephone, video, or in person.
• Work with behavioral health care manager to oversee the status and population health of the assigned patient caseload.
• As a psychiatric consultant, use a registry to track all assigned patients and prioritize patients for case review and treatment adjustment. Registry functions can be accomplished through an EHR build on a spreadsheet used in conjunction with an EHR or can be built into a stand‑alone clinical management tracking system that may or may not be linked to an EHR.
• Recommend any treatment adjustments through the case review process or in ad hoc consultations, including medication recommendations and other…