APRN

Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse (APRN)

Job Description:

• Responsible for providing behavioral health services to clients at assigned sites, including nursing home settings.
• Delivers behavioral health care to a caseload of clients referred by the center's Primary Care clinicians.
• Provides consultation to Primary Care and the IDT regarding behavioral health issues.
• Full-time position, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm with no weekend or holiday hours.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Perform psychiatric evaluations and provide psychopharmacology management with psychotherapeutic support to clients.
• Provide individual and group psychotherapy in selected situations.
• Act as a role model for professional relationships, effective communication, and teamwork.
• Develop clinically appropriate behavioral health treatment plans.
• Implement evidence-based and best practice psychiatric interventions.
• Monitor clients' response to psychotropic medications and other interventions and adjust plans as necessary.
• Document interventions, medication plans, and rationale/response in the EHR.
• Provide behavioral health consultation and support to the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Participate in Behavioral Health program projects to enhance clinical practice, teamwork, and program development.
• Cover 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.
• Covid vaccine required.

Professional Development:

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