Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Months Per Year:
Mental health support for students

Work Model:
Onsite

Seattle University will be one of the most innovative and progressive Jesuit and Catholic universities in the world, educating with excellence at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. We embrace an intersectional framework for defining diversity in its broadest sense, including differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, generational history, culture, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, political perspectives, geographic origin and physical ability.

Seattle University strives to be a welcome, open and safe campus climate for all who learn, live and work at Seattle University.

• Effective Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Works harmoniously with others towards a common goal, leveraging individual strengths to achieve shared objectives.
• Emotionally Intelligent Communication:
  Engages in a skillful exchange of information, thoughts, and feelings, verbally and non-verbally.
• Ethics and Integrity:
  Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to honesty, professionalism, and alignment with our Jesuit mission in all actions and decisions.
• Flexibility and Innovation:
  Embraces change, approaching problems with curiosity adaptability, and is committed to making a positive impact.
• Mindful Inclusion:
  Fosters mindful inclusion by consciously creating a workplace that celebrates differences, embraces cultural humility, and empowers uniqueness.
• Outcomes-Driven Orientation:
  Sets clear objectives, pursues excellence, and delivers measurable outcomes while upholding Jesuit Catholic values.

• Essential duties and responsibilities Within a PMHNP scope of practice, provides clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders. This includes:
• Obtaining a relevant medical and psychiatric history.
• Formulating an appropriate differential diagnosis based on the history and clinical findings.
• Developing an appropriate plan of care and a follow up plan of care.
• Provide psychopharmacologic interventions to treat symptoms of a full range of psychiatric illnesses based on current best practices and accepted standards of clinical management.
• Serves as a resource and provides consultation to clinicians the SHC and CAPS.
• Follow current best practices in psychopharmacologic management and develop an individualized treatment approach based on symptoms, preferences, culture, lifestyle, co-morbidities, risks, and benefits of the plan for the student.
• Maintains appropriate documentation for all services in our electronic medical records system.
• Build and maintain collaborative working relationships.
• Stays current with advances in psychiatry through appropriate continuing education as required for licensure.
• Participate in SHC Quality Assurance activities, provider meetings, case conferences and peer review.
• Maintains currency of licensure, certification, and continuing education.
• To be able to perform the above job description and functions and other duties as assigned by the Medical Director under minimal supervision.

Clinic Hours Academic Year:
Monday
- Wednesday 9am - 5pm and Thursday
- Friday, 8:30am - 5pm Summer:
Monday through Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm, closed in July Work days/hours for PT position negotiated at hire.

• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with diverse populations and be able to demonstrate commitment to issues around diversity and social justice.
• Positive, flexible, and solution focused attitude.
• Ability to quickly synthesize medical and psychiatric data and formulate effective and evidence based clinical recommendations.
• Able to work independently and effectively multitask.
• Promotes positive patient relations maintaining confidentiality, privacy, and dignity.

• Master or DNP degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program and licensed as an ARNP with prescriptive authority in Washington state and DEA licensure.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience providing professional clinical services,…