Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Part-Time

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Position

If psychiatric nursing is your passion, then you'll enjoy a position at Devereux Advanced Behavior Health! Here is your chance to provide individualized care to children and adolescents that is focused on the whole person-body and mind!

Being a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Devereux has its advantages.

You will not only focus on the health and wellness of your assigned client's, but also serve as an educator to the entire family emphasizing wellness and self-care by providing clients and their families with the information they need to make healthy life style choices and health care decisions.

We offer:

• Flexible work schedules-this is a PT employment position.
• Evidenced based treatment and care models within a clinically based environment focused on collaboration and treatment teams.
• CEU and continued education credits through various professional activities and Devereux's National Institute for Clinical Training and Research Center.

The Devereux Glenholme School in Connecticut provides behavioral health services for children and young adults, ages 10 to 21, who are diagnosed with depression, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, op positional defiant disorder, bipolar disorder and poor impulse control.

Devereux Connecticut offers individual therapy as well as family therapy. Individual therapy identifies a child's specific behavioral challenges and develops the use of skills to enhance the individual's strengths through various forms of therapy. Family therapy focuses on improving and enhancing family communication and positive support through parent education and family system therapy. During therapy, parents and caregivers are provided with parenting strategies and techniques that enable them to provide the best of love and support to their children.

Other outpatient services offered at our Connecticut location include:

• Medication management
• Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TFCBT)
• Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)
• Parent-child interactive therapy (PCIT)
• Psychiatric and psychological evaluations

Salary range: $65,000-$70,000/year

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Education:

Graduation from a board approved master's level nurse practitioner program with specialty training in psychiatric/mental health. Current valid license as a certified registered nurse practitioner (CRNP) with prescriptive authority in Connecticut.

Experience:

Experience working with children and adolescents with mental health needs required. Experience in working independently in the assessment and treatment of medical problems with children and adolescents. Relevant clinical competence must be evidenced by direct clinical care experience, continuing education credits and letters of reference attesting to the specific skills. Proficient computer skills, mastery of Microsoft applications and data collecting/analyzing platforms.

Valid driver's license must be maintained.

Devereux is one of the nation's largest nonprofit organizations, providing services, insight and leadership in the evolving field of behavioral healthcare. Founded in 1912, Devereux operates a comprehensive national network of clinical, therapeutic, educational and employment programs that positively impact the lives of 10,000+ children, adults – and their families – every year.

Our mission:
Devereux changes lives – by unlocking and nurturing human potential for people living with emotional, behavioral or cognitive differences.

With nearly 6,500 employees working in programs across the country, Devereux is a trusted partner for families, schools and communities, serving individuals in the areas of autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, specialty mental health, education and foster care.

At Devereux, servant leadership is embedded throughout our culture and every aspect of our organizational framework. Our mission-driven, people-first mindset is at the heart of the compassionate and high-quality programming we provide – every day – for the individuals and families we serve, and other key stakeholders. Devereux offers challenging and exciting work, and our team environment…