Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Job Description:

Job Title: Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Location: Springfield, MO.
Department: Psychiatry Clinics
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary:

An advanced practice provider, physician’s assistant or advanced practice nurse practitioner, who has acquired appropriate training to provide mental health services to include evaluating, diagnosing, prescribing medications, and managing treatment for clients.  

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner position offers…

• All-Inclusive Employee Benefits Package - A robust full-time employee benefits package encompassing health, dental, vision, retirement, disability, life insurance, wellness program, and more
• Telemedicine – 24/7 phone, web, or mobile app medical, behavioral health, & dermatology visits
• Employee Assistance Program – 24/7 counseling services, legal assistance, & financial consultation for you and your household at no cost
• Paid Time Off - 29 days per year including vacation & holiday pay
• Workplace Culture** - An environment cultivating employee wellbeing, valuing each individual's humanity, and actively promoting healthy, joyful workforce engagement

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform client assessment and diagnosis for adult clients and develop a treatment plan, implement the plan and provide follow up and evaluation.
• Complete a psychiatric assessment; which includes obtaining a relevant health and medical history and ordering pertinent diagnostic tests.
• Provide a psychiatric diagnosis based on the multiaxial system used by the DSM-IV-TR Axis 1 -5.
• Implement a treatment plan, which may include provision of brief psychotherapy and/or prescription of psychotropic medications.
• Prescribe psychotropic medication and order pertinent diagnostic tests as delegated per a current written collaborative practice or supervision agreement with the Staff Psychiatrist.
• Provides services utilizing his/her experience and ability to meet the needs of the client and the goals of treatment.
• Carries a caseload, the size and nature of which is to be established with supervisory staff.
• Communicates with attending physician as necessary to identify problems and establish goals and objectives for treatment.
• Provides and/or coordinates a comprehensive follow-up to all clients for whom he/she has been responsible.
• Is sensitive and responsible to management needs, such as data collection, program evaluation, development of grant applications, maintenance of various contracts for services, etc.
• Participates in all required meetings.
• Functions in accordance with Brightli Operational Guidelines and within his/her professional code of ethics.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Shall be able to establish effective relationships via telephone and personal contacts.  Shall be able to follow direction and accept supervision.
• Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports, document with a computerized clinical record and e-mail correspondence.  Ability to communicate effectively before groups of residents, employees of the organization, family members and other contacts in the community.
• LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports, document with a computerized clinical record and e-mail correspondence.  Ability to communicate effectively before groups of residents, employees of the organization, family members and other contacts in the community.
• MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Experience and/or Education Qualifications:

• Must possess a Master's degree in nursing as an Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.  Previous experience in the behavioral health field is preferred.
• Physician assistants must maintain their state license and certification. Certified physician as