Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Intensive Residential Treatment Program

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner – Intensive Residential Treatment Program

NFI Massachusetts Inc., a well-respected non-profit human service agency, is seeking a dedicated Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our DMH-contracted locked Intensive Residential Treatment Programs located in Westborough, MA.

Our programs serve adolescents with serious emotional and behavioral health needs who require intensive, structured residential treatment. We are committed to helping youth and families stabilize, build skills, and work toward reunification and successful transition back to the community. We are looking for a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who shares our commitment to compassionate, thoughtful, team-based care for complex adolescents.

Our co-ed, secure residential programs serve up to 30 adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and complex psychiatric, trauma-related, developmental, behavioral, and family-system needs. These programs are licensed by the Department of Mental Health and accredited by The Joint Commission.

As the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, you will play a central role in psychiatric assessment, medication management, treatment planning, staff consultation, and ongoing psychiatric care. This role offers the opportunity to work with adolescents over the course of several months in a residential setting, allowing for meaningful longitudinal treatment, observation of therapeutic change, and close collaboration with the full treatment team.

Why Choose Us?

• Competitive compensation package: $90–$110/hour based on experience, plus on-call stipend.
• Opportunity to work with complex and severely ill adolescents in a structured residential setting where meaningful clinical change can occur over time.
• Collaborative multidisciplinary team approach, including program leadership, nursing, clinicians, occupational therapy, residential staff, and psychiatric consultation.
• Built-in support from an experienced consulting psychiatrist/medical director and agency leadership.
• Opportunity to contribute to the development of clinical interventions, staff education, milieu-based strategies, and individualized treatment planning.
• DMH-funded program structure, allowing clinical care to be less dependent on insurance authorization and payer-driven treatment limitations than many outpatient or acute-care settings.

Position Details

• Part-time position: 24 hours per week.
• On-site presence expected three days per week.
• Standard hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Additional stipend for after-hours phone consultation on a rotating on-call basis.
• Work collaboratively with the nursing department, Director of Nursing, program managers, clinicians, residential staff, and consulting psychiatrist/medical director.

Qualifications

• Licensed Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in the state of Massachusetts.
• Federal DEA and Massachusetts Controlled Substance certificates.
• Experience in psychiatry and/or mental health required; 1+ year preferred.
• Experience working with adolescents in residential, inpatient, CBAT, partial hospital, emergency, or other higher-acuity settings preferred.
• Comfort working with complex youth, families, multidisciplinary teams, and systems of care.
• Interest in trauma-informed, developmentally informed, and team-based psychiatric treatment.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, mental status examinations, diagnostic assessments, and medication treatment planning.
• Provide ongoing medication management and psychiatric follow-up for adolescents in the program.
• Collaborate closely with the consulting psychiatrist/medical director on complex diagnostic, medication, risk, and systems-of-care questions.
• Lead and coordinate all psychiatric aspects of care within the program in collaboration with nursing, clinicians, program leadership, occupational therapy, residential staff, youth, and families.
• Participate in multidisciplinary treatment planning and contribute to individualized clinical interventions.
• Collaborate closely with the Director of Nursing and nursing department.
• Provide consultation and education to staff regarding psychiatric symptoms, medication treatment, behavioral presentation, risk, trauma, and developmental needs.
• Support youth and families through thoughtful communication, psychoeducation, and collaborative care planning.
• Partner with the team around transitions, discharge planning, family work, and community reintegration.

If you are a compassionate Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who is interested in high-quality adolescent psychiatry, complex clinical care, and meaningful team-based work, we would love to hear from you. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to helping youth and families move toward stability, connection, and recovery.

NFI Massachusetts Inc., is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We seek to empower individuals and support the diversity and inclusivity within our workforce.

NFI Massachusetts participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility as part of the I-9 verification process.

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