Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner New

Harbor Health Services is an innovative, growing, mission-based organization that lives, serves and collaborates with our community members to achieve our mission to help individuals reach their full potential through access to local, affordable services that promote health. Harbor provides medical, behavioral health, dental, and support services to more than 34,000 patients in Boston, the South Shore, and Cape Cod. Harbor Health also operates two Programs for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly in Mattapan and Brockton and a Woman, Infants and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program.  To help further the mission of Harbor, we are looking for a compassionate Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our team at the Daniel Driscoll-Neponset Health Center.

Harbor Health Services is qualified for Federal and State Loan Repayment Programs (NHSC and MA Repay and Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program!   

Harbor Health offers an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Life, & Disability insurance, 403b Savings Plan, Generous Paid Time Off (25 days to start for NP) plus 11 additional Holidays. Other NP benefits include continuing Medical Education Stipend of up to $2500 and 5 days of leave per year and reimbursement of renewal cost of licenses. 

Role:

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner coordinates psychiatric services with the Behavioral Health Director and Psychiatrist as well as provides direct services to patients with mental health issues, substance abuse disorders and dual diagnosis. Duties include but are not limited to evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions; issuing prescriptions and maintenance of all clients on psychotropic medication; and assumes leadership role in case conferences and in-service training of staff and actively participates in peer and utilization review. 

Responsibilities:

• Prescribes and maintains all clients on psychotropic medication.
• Evaluates, diagnoses, and treats psychiatric conditions.
• Participates in diagnostic formulations and development of treatment plans for patients.
• Takes a leadership role in case conferences and in-service training of staff and provides overview of medical problems and organic psychiatric and neurological problems.
• Participates in Utilization Review Committee at our Health Centers.
• Provides psychiatric consultation to primary care medical providers.
• Participates in training of Behavioral Health Department interns and staff, possibly other agency staff, as arranged with Behavioral Health Department Director.
• Completes appropriate documentation and submits charges in a timely manner as required.
• Actively collaborates with the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) care teams and Patient care teams.
• Precepts students/interns as needed.

Requirements:

• Masters of Science in Nursing, Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with current MA License to practice, current BLS Certification required
• Current MCSR and DEA
• Two years of experience prescribing psychotropic medication to adult psychiatric patients with license, experience prescribing psychotropic medications to youth under 18 years of age preferred
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in addiction treatment in an outpatient setting. 
• Two years of experience prescribing and treating patients with SUD.
• One year of experience working in a community health center setting highly desired
• Exceptional interpersonal skill
• Experience with grant reporting and compliance preferred. 
• Basic to Intermediate level of experience with Microsoft Office 365 including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams and familiarity with using Electronic Medical Record (EMR), EPIC/OCHIN desired.
• Bilingual a plus, Vietnamese and English desired

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.