Consulting Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Responsibilities

• Join weekly consultation meetings with behavioral health care managers reviewing the Collaborative Care Model patient registry.
• Support the consulting psychiatrist in evaluating treatment plans and contributing to medication recommendations for oncology patients with psychiatric co-occurring conditions.
• Provide direct psychiatric evaluation and treatment, including prescribing psychiatric medications, when indicated and within scope of practice.
• Maintain working knowledge of interactions between psychiatric medications and common oncology treatments, under the guidance of the supervising psychiatrist.
• Communicate treatment support and care coordination to oncology teams in alignment with Protocol’s clinical standards.
• Evaluate psychiatric risk in the context of oncology care, including suicidal ideation, trauma responses, and the psychiatric impact of cancer diagnoses and treatment.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including behavioral health care managers, oncology providers, and outside psychiatric providers as needed.
• Participate in initial and ongoing training required by Protocol.
• Engage in ongoing supervision and department meetings as needed.

Qualifications

• An active, unrestricted license in at least one US state as one of the following, with preference for New York licensure: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC), or Physician Assistant (PA-C) with demonstrated psychiatric training, experience, or certification (e.g., CAQ-Psychiatry or equivalent).
• Ability to support a caseload of patients of different diagnoses, backgrounds and cultures, and with varying degrees of acuity.
• Experience with patients in oncology and/or chronic or serious medical illness settings.
• Experience supporting patients with suicidal ideation and/or trauma.
• Comfort treating co-occurring psychiatric conditions including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders, and ADHD in a medically complex population.
• Ability to practice collaboratively within a supervised care model, with openness to clinical oversight and team-based decision making.
• Strong communication skills and ability to respond to patient and team messages in a timely manner.