• Performs psychiatric evaluations and provides psychopharmacology management with psychotherapeutic support to clients, as well as individual and group psychotherapy in selected situations, and provides behavioral health consultation to other disciplines.
• Acts as a role model for professional relationships, effective communication and teamwork.
• Performs routine and urgent psychiatric evaluations.
• Develops clinically appropriate behavioral health treatment plans.
• Implements evidence based and best practice psychiatric interventions.
• Monitors clients’ response to psychotropic medications and other interventions and adjusts plans, as necessary.
• Documents interventions, medication plans and rationale/response in the EHR.
• Provides behavioral health consultation and support to the Interdisciplinary Team to increase the ability of team members to integrate psychiatric concepts/skills into the delivery of care.
• Participates in Behavioral Health program projects to enhance clinical practice, teamwork and program development.
• Covers for Behavioral Health colleagues when needed.
• Ability to pass a fit test. Position requires mask where seal is critical. Incumbent is required to not have facial hair that interferes with a tight seal of the respirator.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree as psychiatric/mental health Clinical Nurse Specialist or Nurse Practitioner or ANCC certification as NP with more than 5 years in psychiatric experience and prescribing psychotropics.
• License to practice in the Commonwealth of MA as a Registered Nurse/Advanced Practice Nurse with prescribing authority.
• ANCC certification as a Psychiatric/Mental Health NP or CNS.
• 2-5 years of experience in an advanced practice role with prescriptive practice.
• Minimum of 1 year elder experience.
• Evidence of competence in evaluation and treatment of older adults, including psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, crisis evaluations and consultation to caregivers.