Nurse Practitioner

Spectrum Health & Human Services

Agency Profile: Spectrum Health & Human Services respectfully partners with adults, children, and families as they recover from behavioral, emotional, mental health and/or substance related disorders by offering individualized and meaningful opportunities of hope, empowerment and support to achieve self-defined improvements in their quality of life.

Full-time: 326 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY/ 2412 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY

Summary Of Position Function

As a member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner PMHNP in conjunction with the clinical team, has overall clinical responsibility for monitoring individual's treatment and staff delivery of clinical services; the PMHNP provides psychiatric and medical assessment and treatment; clinical supervision, education, and training of the team; and development, maintenance, and supervision of medication and psychiatric and medical treatment policies and procedures.

Major Duties And Responsibilities

• Knowledge and demonstration of agency core values in day-to-day activities
• Collaborates with the Medical Director regarding psychiatric health services, education, and any other clinical needs
• Ability to complete psychiatric assessment across the life span
• Conduct psychiatric assessments including psychiatric history, course of illness, response to treatment; mental status examination and DSM 5 diagnoses
• Participate in case review to collaborate with the clinical team and provide feedback and recommendations.
• Orders laboratory tests, interprets, and explains the test results to individuals and families if applicable
• Perform or recommended age-appropriate screening procedures
• Work with children and their families in anticipation of developmental milestones and life cycle events
• Collaborate with the care team regarding an individual's physical/behavioral needs. Making appropriate community referrals for further assessment and treatment as needed
• Prescribe psychotropic medications and conduct regular assessment of therapeutic responses and side effects and educate individuals/families regarding psychotropic medications
• Perform age-appropriate therapy sessions to include family education.
• Return calls and emails promptly (within 24 hours of receipt or sooner if clinically necessary)
• Responsible for maintaining customer relations with all agency staff and clients
• Responsible for providing psychiatric services to individuals in a variety of clinical settings during scheduled hours. Scope of services includes outpatient psychiatric evaluations and medication management services.
• Assess, diagnose, and treat adults, adolescents, and children experiencing symptoms of a behavioral health disorders.
• Prescribe, recommend, or discontinue drugs and treatments to treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders in accordance with the Collaborative Practice Agreement and the state's Nurse Practice Act.
• Provide crisis assessment and management of individuals during regular work hours, during other hours, and as on-call back up as needed
• Submit written reports and oral testimony and presentation of opinion in commitment and other legal proceedings and in a wide range of treatment, rehabilitative, and support services matters (e.g., AOT, Social Security applications, prior authorization of mediation, etc.).
• Participate in and supervise the development of the comprehensive treatment plan for each patient at treatment planning meetings.

Skills/Competencies

• Demonstrates a clear understanding of the characteristics and problems of adults and children with severe and persistent mental illness
• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of effective clinical practices and principles
• Strong clinical skills and experience providing treatment to persons with severe and persistent mental illness
• Excellent interpersonal skills including ability to effectively communicate, negotiate, persuade and instruct.
• Exceptional judgment and decision-making skills
• Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Proficient in the use of computer software such as MSWord, Excel, Outlook, etc.

Education Requirements

• Board certified or Board eligible in Psychiatry and licensed to practice medicine in the state in which the program is operating

Experience

• Appropriate to situation

Compensation: $159,000/yr - $201,000/yr