Nurse Practitioner: Child and Family Psychiatric Services

Hiring Range:

$127,587.20 - $160,763.20

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

As part of a large continuum of behavioral health services, this role focuses on providing treatment to children, adolescents, and their families across a broad spectrum of mental health needs. The Outpatient Nurse Practitioner will work within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team that includes psychiatrists, advanced practice nurses, and therapists.

Provider Responsibilities

• Conduct psychiatric evaluations and provide medication management
• Partner closely with families, schools, and care teams to support patient outcomes
• Participate in regular case reviews and team collaboration
• Work under the supervision of a psychiatrist in a highly integrated care model
• Have opportunities to engage across multiple clinical settings

Benefits

This organization offers strong support through in-service education, ongoing training, and supervision, along with very competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and dedicated continuing education time and allowance.

Major Responsibilities

1. Ability to establish working relationships with other human service providers
2. Fully prepared to present a patient care case in court
3. Conduct mental health evaluations on all medical floors/ emergency care centers as needed, and provide appropriate care interventions
4. Works with the treatment team to analyze and interpret observations of patient's behavior with information gathered about patient

Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities

1. Complies with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
2. Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
3. Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
4. Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
5. Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
6. Maintains regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
7. Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

Position Qualifications

License/Certification/Education

1. Graduation from an accredited graduate program in psychiatric nursing
2. Massachusetts censure as an advanced practice nurse
3. Board certified as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Association and recognized to practice in an expanded role by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing

Experience/Skills

1. Minimum of three years advanced clinical practice in psychiatric nursing.

Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions

Physical Demands

1. Stand – 1/3 to 2/3 of the time
2. Walk – 1/3 to 2/3 of the time
3. Sit – 1/3 to 2/3 of the time
4. Talk or hear – 2/3 of the time
5. Uses hands to finger, handle or feel – 2/3 of the time
6. Push/pull – 1/3 of the time
7. Stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl – 1/3 of the time
8. Reach with hands and arms – 1/3 of the time

Environmental Conditions

1. Fumes or airborne particles – 1/3 of the time
2. Infectious diseases – 2/3 of the time
3. Physical +/or verbal abusiveness – 1/3 of the time
4. Rotating shifts – 1/3 of the time
5. PPE when indicated – 1/2 to 2/3 of the time

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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