Advanced Practice - Psychiatry Opening in Brighton, MA
Saint Louis, MO, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician Assistant
Specialty
Psychiatric-Mental Health
Degree Required
MPAS/MHS/MMSc/MPH
Position Type
Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Location
Brighton, Massachusetts, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
11/22/24
Psychiatric NP opening outside of Boston
Located in Brighton, MA; Boston 10m
Full Time; Permanent
Employed
Job Requirements:
- Masters 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Other duties as required.