Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services

Job Info

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Make a bigger difference

WORKING WITH US:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families, to children, teens, and adults. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of others.

Similarly, we support our employees through benefits like, professional development opportunities and paid supervision. Some of our other benefits include:

• Positions offer competitive compensation, a hiring bonus, and HRSA loan repayment
• Continuing CME/CEU support through our tuition assistance program
• 15 agency holidays and 15 sick days in addition to generous vacation days
• Health/dental/vision plans that are subsidized up to 80%
• Access to 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Unlimited employee referral bonus opportunities
• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) through our many company initiatives, including employee resource groups (ERGs) like Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

ABOUT THE JOB:

Youth ACT teams are an exciting new model of care that aim to stabilize children in their communities and to prevent re-hospitalization and institutionalization. Each multi-disciplinary team works intensively with a small group of children and their families directly in the community.

Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services are focused on improving or ameliorating the significant functional impairments and sever symptomatology experienced by youth due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbance.

Clinical and rehabilitative interventions are also focused on enhancing family functioning to foster health/wellbeing, stability and re-integration for youth who are returning home after residential treatment or in-patient hospitalization.

The Youth ACT Team Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide treatment and support services to families and children, ages 10 to 21. The role will require some evening availability and rotating on-call coverage. The Youth ACT Team Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner is under the supervision of the psychiatrist.

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner is responsible for:

• Providing psychiatric services which includes the following: provision of a full behavioral health (including health) assessment; diagnosis; treatment recommendations; treatment planning; clinical treatment; and follow up planning.
• Participating in shared decision making with the child/youth, families and multi-disciplinary team.
• Providing services to youth and families in their homes and communities and collaborates closely with other service providers and systems with which the family interacts.
• In conjunction with the Director/Team leader, has clinical responsibility for monitoring recipient treatment and staff delivery of clinical services.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented clinical staff of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

• A current license to practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in the State of New York. A current DEA registration for the prescribing of controlled substances.
• ANCC certification or pending application is required. NYS OPRA (Ordering/Prescribing/Referring/Attending) status approved or application pending required and a Health Commerce Account in place by the onset of employment.
• The former is needed to prescribe to clients with Medicaid, the latter is needed to adhere to NYS I-STOP law.
• Fluency in Spanish preferred
• Training/and experience with child and adolescent psychiatry is preferred.
• Must be able to work as a team member with complex cases.

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.

Other details

• Job Family : Clinical Staff [300s]
• Job Function : Medical Professionals
• Pay Type : Salary
• Employment Indicator : 8833 - Hospital - Professional Employees

 

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