Senior Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner PMHNP

About the role

The Jewish Board's Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff use a culturally affirming, person-centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resiliency of our communities.

The Senior Psychiatric Provider is a highly skilled psychiatric provider (psychiatric nurse practitioner or psychiatrist) that delivers direct clinical care and supports program leadership by offering psychiatric guidance to clinicians and programs to which they are assigned. The Senior Psychiatric Provider will partner with directors or senior directors and other clinical and administrative leadership to ensure and promote the provision of outstanding integrated care. The Senior Psychiatric Provider will report to the Senior Supervising Psychiatric Provider and provide direct clinical care at least 85% of their time. The clinical responsibilities include providing psychiatric services and care to the agency's children and adult population in community clinic practices, including clinical diagnosis, prognosis, medication management, and discharge planning. The Senior Psychiatric Provider is assigned to provide psychiatric support at clinical programs (e.g., CCBHC). They will assist with providing prescription coverage when providers at the programs are not working, assisting with clinical consultations, and escalation pathways. They provide clinical support to psychiatric nurse practitioner students to whom they are assigned.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric assessment, clarification of clinical diagnosis, recommend treatment options and provide client education on mental health issues and strategies for recovery and review patient's progress and recommend discharge and aftercare planning.
• Supports psychiatric best practices at the CCBHC.
• Supports new practitioners joining the CCBHC by providing a clinical orientation of new hires, including support in the use of the electronic health record, and navigating a complex system.
• Supports the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NPP) Residency and psychiatric nurse practitioner students either by precepting or providing coverage for others more directly involved when coverage is