Adult Nurse Practitioner

TITLE : Adult Nurse Practitioner
REPORTS : Medical Director
DEPARTMENT : Clinical
PROGRAM : George Rosenfeld Center for Recovery - 13 Hell Gate Circle, New York, NY 10035

RATE: $95/hour - $110/hour

Our Mission:
Since 1967, Odyssey House has gone beyond helping individuals beat drugs and alcohol. We help rebuild lives. There's more to recovery than just getting clean. We help individuals get healthy again, too, with medical and dental care, fitness programs, support for your mental health and more. Individuals can stay with their children while in treatment, while learning new life skills, so they can stay together and repair other broken relationships in their lives. We provide educational and work skill trainings, outpatient services and available housing assistance, so individuals can step back into real life with a real future.

If that sounds different than other treatment programs, you're right. Because Odyssey is where recovery gets real.

MAJOR FUNCTIONS:

The Adult Nurse Practitioner provides healthcare for clients admitted in residential treatment, performing history and physicals, medical evaluations, and, when necessary, medical assessments. The ANP assesses and stabilizes medical conditions that are impacted by the individual's history of substance use. The ANP is responsible for managing ancillary withdrawal, managing addiction medications, providing consumer education and making referrals for specialty care according to medical necessity.

SPECIFIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES :

1. Examine and evaluates all scheduled clients.

2. Provide healthcare according to generally accepted standards for care.

3. Evaluate clients for medical appropriateness for admission into the substance use disorder treatment

4. Treat ancillary withdrawal and prescribe addiction medications where appropriate.

5. Triage clients when applicable.

6. Monitor consumer response to all treatments and confers with Medical Director as needed.

7. Confer with collateral service providers regarding clients in order to maintain continuity of care.

8. Ensure that appropriate medical follow-up is occurring.

9. Document provision of all services in the clinical record, assuring all notes are entered in chronological order, and are legible, signed and dated.

10. Write, adjust and discontinue standing medication orders.

11. Follow generally accepted standards of professional practice and medical ethics at all times.

12. Provide consumer education regarding self-care and adherence for chronic diseases.

13. Maintain acceptable level of productivity as set by Medical Director.

14. Follow all Odyssey House medical records policies and procedures.

15. Ensure services provided are reasonable and necessary.

16. Attend regularly scheduled staff meetings and case conferences.

17. Attend all required in-service training seminars.

18. Participate in quality improvement activities.

19. Other relevant duties as required.

REQUIREMENTS: EDUCATION/TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

1. Currently licensed as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of New York.

2. Current DEA#, Infection Control Certification.

3. Board Certified Preferred.

4. Holds a federal DATA 2000 waiver (buprenorphine-certified).

5. In good standing with New York State Department of Education Professional Licensing Boards and without any outstanding malpractice judgments.

6. Advanced Nursing Degree from an accredited College or University.

7. Patient, supportive demeanor, able to work with challenging patient population.

8. This position will require availability as needed including on call responsibilities.

Odyssey House is an equal opportunity employer maintaining a non-discriminatory policy on hiring of its personnel. Odyssey House, and its operational divisions, will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or citizen status in all employment decisions including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, training, rate of pay or other forms of compensation, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.