Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Student and Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual, academic and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters including public service, health, wellness, social justice, residential living, food services, sports, recreation, career services, and student activities and organizations including sorority and fraternity life. We provide support and services to roughly 25,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Cornell Health's more than 200 employees collaborate to provide integrated and culturally-sensitive mental health, medical, health promotion, public health, student accommodations, and occupational medicine care and services. Dually focused on holistic health of Cornell students and well-being of the larger campus community, the unit supports readiness to learn, to participate fully in the Cornell experience, and to achieve academic, work, and life success. Cornell Health is nationally recognized for innovation and leadership, and is committed to an ongoing journey toward integrated, cost-effective, and community-based services and campus health initiatives.

Cornell Health’s Medical Services is a collaborative, vibrant, innovative, inter-professional department which provides holistic clinical care to address students’ biopsychosocial needs. Working collaboratively with other Cornell Health departments, medical staff aspire to a data-driven approach to provide high-quality, accessible, cost-effective, culturally-sensitive, and developmentally-appropriate care and services to Cornell’s student population, meeting the routine and urgent needs of patients.

   

The Psychiatry team at Cornell Health provides evaluation and medication management for Cornell students. Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners provide diagnostic and pharmacologic treatment to students, including prescribing and monitoring medication for psychiatric illnesses as well as educating students about their illness and medication. This role provides consultation services to, and collaborates with, staff across Cornell Health including Counselor/Therapists in Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), Behavioral Health Consultants, and medical clinicians to ensure continuity of care for each student under Cornell Health’s care. To manage complex cases, the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner team works collaboratively with psychiatrists based at Weill-Cornell. When needed, the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will assist with the management of psychiatric emergencies.

The successful candidate:

• is a positive contributor to a team-based, inter-professional environment with an innovative, collaborative, improvement-oriented culture
• has demonstrated experience providing psychiatric consultation and medication management to young adults, in a college health setting, and/or experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds
• keeps current on best practices for providing psychiatric care to a diverse campus community
• fosters strong working relationships with healthcare professionals across disciplines
• has excellent interpersonal skills that demonstrate knowledge and awareness necessary for working with a highly diverse staff and clientele

Required Qualifications:

• N.P. with current NYS license (or license-eligible)
• Current certificate to practice as a mental health nurse practitioner in NYS.
• Master’s degree in clinical specialty or equivalent experience and ANCC nurse practitioner certification.
• CPR-BLS level certification achieved within one year of employment and maintained biannually, as applicable.
• Sophisticated ability to evaluate the mental health of students across a diverse spectrum of identities, including their appropriateness for psychotropic medications
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills that include, but are not limited to, the ability to use data to drive decisions, to keep the team’s treatment protocols in line with established best practices, and to offer consultation to various stakeholders
• Experience with an Electronic Health Record and Microsoft office applications.
• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Passionate about working in an organization that values and promotes diversity, equity, inclus