Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Comprehensive Services Center (CSC)

Location: Jacksonville, FL

Organization: Mental Health Resource Center (MHRC)


Mental Health Resource Center (MHRC) is seeking a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our team at the Comprehensive Services Center (CSC) in Jacksonville. This position provides psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and crisis services for adults receiving care through MHRC.


The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner collaborates with the clinical team to assess, treat, and monitor individuals receiving medication management services as well as those presenting to the CSC in psychiatric crisis. This role plays a key part in ensuring patients receive high-quality, compassionate, and effective care in a supportive, team-based environment.


This position is ideal for a provider who is passionate about serving adults with serious and persistent mental illness and who enjoys working in a collaborative clinical setting.


Essential Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis, medication management, and approved treatment interventions for assigned caseload.
• Develop and maintain problem-oriented treatment plans with appropriate goals and objectives.
• Ensure patients are fully informed about prescribed medications and obtain appropriate informed consent documentation.
• Prescribe medications in accordance with state licensure, established protocols, and the MHRC IDP formulary.
• Provide medication education, including discussion of side effects and adherence to prescribed regimens.
• Assess and manage individuals experiencing psychiatric crisis.
• Coordinate referrals for additional medical or behavioral health services as needed.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to ensure comprehensive patient care.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential documentation in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and related systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing
• ANCC Certification in Psychiatric Nursing
• Active Florida APRN License
• Current DEA Registration
• Minimum one year of psychiatric nursing experience, including experience working with chronically mentally ill adults

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to make independent clinical decisions and exercise sound judgment.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to emergent situations, including safety risks, abuse, neglect, or life-threatening conditions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with:
  
  
  • Patients and families
• • Caregivers
• • Community service providers
• • Clinical and administrative staff
• Proficiency in Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems within three months of hire.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and email applications.

Position Details

• Full-time, day shift
• Full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package

MHRC also offers weekend on-call opportunities with our Inpatient Programs for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners who have two or more years of post-Master's experience.

Thank you for your interest in joining the team at Mental Health Resource Center and Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems. We offer a variety of opportunities in the behavioral health and social services fields. We have locations in Jacksonville and throughout Florida. Employees work together and support one another in a friendly, team-oriented atmosphere that encourages professional growth. We offer an ideal workplace for individuals dedicated to providing care and services that reflect our core values of compassion, integrity, and excellence.

Mental Health Resource Center, Inc. (MHRC) is a nonprofit organization that provides a wide range of behavioral health and social services to the community. Included in MHRC's service array are 24-hour emergency services and inpatient psychiatric services for children, adolescents, and adults. Outpatient services include medication management, care coordination, case management, intensive case management team services, counseling, psychosocial rehabilitation, an adult therapeutic family program, state hospital liaison services, mental health court, multidisciplinary forensic teams (MFT), jail-based diversion services, a Co-Responder Program with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the Link-to-Life suicide prevention program, and services that assist individuals in obtaining benefits such as Social Security Income, Social Security Disability Income, Medicaid, food stamps, and housing. In addition, UF Health Jacksonville contracts with MHRC to manage the hospital's adult inpatient psychiatric unit.

MHRC also operates eight Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) programs for adults with severe and persistent mental illness, located in Clearwater, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Kissimmee, Rockledge, Tampa, and Winter Haven, as well as a FACT Lite program providing Linking, Advocating, Treating, Transitioning, Empowering & Recovery Support (LATTERS) services in Jacksonville. The two FACT teams located in Jacksonville serve residents of Duval, Clay, and Nassau counties.


Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems and Mental Health Resource Center encourage all applicants to take advantage of opportunities for hire, and if internal applicants, transfers, promotions, and advancement, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, handicap, disability, marital status, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. RBHS and MHRC are Equal Opportunity Employers and Drug Free Workplaces.

Background screening and clearance through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse is required for all positions: