Clinical Nurse Practitioner

Position Title: Clinical Nurse Practitioner, Full-Time
Contract Duration: 12-month base period with renewable option periods
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Department: Veritas Management Group/NIH SOAR

Summary

Veritas Management Group (VMG) is a leading management consulting firm offering solutions to complex challenges involving public health, technology, and military domains. We serve government and commercial sector organizations, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations, domestically and globally. We are committed to transforming public health through equitable, data-driven solutions.

VMG is seeking a Clinical Nurse Practitioner to support the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. This position provides comprehensive clinical and research support for outpatient brain imaging and neuromodulation studies, including MRI and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS).

The ideal candidate is an experienced Nurse Practitioner with a strong clinical background in radiology, cardiology, or critical care who is comfortable working with adult and pediatric research participants in a highly specialized clinical research environment. The position requires direct patient care, clinical assessment, participant screening, safety monitoring, and close collaboration with investigators, radiology personnel, and multidisciplinary research teams. The task order requires graduate-level nursing education and identifies ANCC certification and Family Nurse Practitioner licensure among the required credentials.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive patient care in an outpatient MRI setting, including magnetic fields up to 7 Tesla and potentially higher-field systems in the future.
• Recruit and screen healthy volunteers and patients for MRI, MRS, and other imaging procedures.
• Conduct structured and semi-structured interviews with patients, parents, and families.
• Provide clinical and psychological support to adult and pediatric patients, families, and healthy volunteers throughout participation in imaging studies.
• Participate in research team meetings and contribute to decisions regarding participant inclusion, diagnoses, and patient and family support.
• Conduct preliminary evaluations of prospective research participants through electronic interviewing, medical record review, MRI and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) safety screening, and consultation with treating professionals and NIH clinical staff.
• Obtain social, medical, psychiatric, medication, alcohol, and substance-use histories from research participants.
• Provide clinical support during brain imaging and neuromodulation procedures and verify required safety screenings and consent documentation.
• Monitor participant comfort, anxiety levels, physical status, and overall safety during research procedures.
• Recognize and appropriately respond to seizures, unstable patients, and other clinical events.
• Perform physical examinations, enter medical orders, and review laboratory and other test results for normal and abnormal findings in collaboration with physicians and other clinical staff.
• Document research and clinical findings in applicable medical records and research databases.
• Interpret clinical data and identify abnormal findings requiring immediate clinical action.
• Present relevant clinical information and analyses to principal investigators for clinical monitoring.
• Obtain informed consent for MRI procedures and support the protection of human research participants.
• Recommend appropriate clinical referrals, including available NIH resources.
• Participate in data analysis and management, manuscript preparation, and presentation of research findings.
• Provide training and clinical guidance to junior staff and advisors.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate‑level education in Nursing .
• Current Family Nurse Practitioner license .
• Current American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification .
• MRMD and MRSO certifications/qualifications as identified in the task order.
• Clinical specialization or demonstrated experience in Radiology, Cardiology, or Critical Care .
• Experience providing direct patient care and conducting clinical assessments.
• Experience performing physical examinations and reviewing laboratory, imaging, and other diagnostic findings.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to medical emergencies and significant abnormal clinical findings.
• Strong clinical documentation, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with adult and pediatric patients, families, investigators, physicians, nurses, and multidisciplinary research teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting MRI, MRS, brain imaging, or neuromodulation research.
• Experience conducting MRI and TMS safety screenings.
• Experience working with adult and pediatric research participants.
• Experience supporting clinical research protocols involving human subjects.
• Experience obtaining informed consent in a clinical research environment.
• Experience assessing medical, psychiatric, medication, and substance-use histories.
• Experience working with principal investigators and multidisciplinary clinical research teams.
• Experience with CRIS, CTDB, MRI-related systems, or comparable clinical research platforms .
• Experience contributing to research data analysis, manuscript preparation, or scientific presentations.
• Experience providing clinical and psychological support to patients and families participating in research studies.

Work Environment

• Full‑time position, 30–40 hours per week , with 40 hours identified for the position.
• Monday through Friday schedule.
• Position supports NIMH at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland .
• Telework is available in accordance with task order requirements and government approval; direct patient care and research procedures require onsite participation as applicable.
• No rotational shifts, nights, or holidays are required.
• Clinical research environment involving direct patient care and regular interaction with adult and pediatric research participants, families, investigators, physicians, nurses, and research personnel.
• Position involves human subjects and potential contact with human blood or other body fluids and requires use of applicable personal protective equipment.
• Security clearance is not required.
• The base period is November 30, 2026 through November 29, 2027 , with renewable option periods potentially extending performance through June 20, 2028.