Lead Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner

Overview

Lead Advanced Practice Provider

Dartmouth Health Medical Center - Lebanon, NH

 

The Department of Psychiatry is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider Lead to join a team of forty advanced practice providers delivering behavioral health care services across the lifespan and throughout northern New England.  Responsibilities include recruiting, educating and mentoring a team of APPs as they work to address the growing demand for services.  Currently, this includes APPs who are new to practice as well as experienced clinicians, leaders and educators, many of whom are boarded in more than one specialty or are pursuing doctoral education.  You’ll have the opportunity to work with a group of APPs who are experts in their area of specialty, offering consultation to their professional colleagues across the continuum of care and acuity.

 

The ideal candidate will have experience in clinical practice in psychiatry, leadership skills, and an understanding of APP education and workforce development.  In collaboration with the Chief APP Officer, the Department Chair for Psychiatry, and other leaders, this Advanced Practice Provider Lead will work to support each APP to practice at the top of their license and facilitate opportunities for professional growth consistent with the goal of contributing to the provision of high quality, collaborative care. 

 

This APP Lead will have some non-clinical time protected for these leadership responsibilities, and the area of their clinical practice would be discussed on interview.

 

What Dartmouth-Hitchcock has to offer you:

• Established patient base
• Inclusive and collegial environment and referrals

• Competitive compensation, benefits and relocation
• Dedicated CME time and funds

What New England has to offer you:

• Unmatched quality of life
• Four seasons and an outdoor lifestyle
• Access to major cities and airports
• Proximity to mountains and hiking trails
• Driving distance to the seacoast/ocean
• Abundance of local lakes for boating and swimming
• No sales or income tax!

The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s; 4 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth-Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. With destinations like Boston, New York, the seacoast and ski country within driving distance, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.

 

 Cover Letters should be addressed to:

 

Christine Finn, MDVice Chair for Clinical Services for the Department of Psychiatry

Christine.T.Finn@hitchcock.org 

 

Qualifications

• Master's degree required.
• 5 years of clinical experience preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and management experience preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively and concisely both verbally and in writing with individuals and groups at various levels and various disciplines.

Required Licensure/Certifications

• Currently licensed as an APRN or PA-C in the State of New Hampshire
• National Certification from approved certifying body
• Additional certifications must be maintained in accordance with applicable departmental requirements