Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Needed Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) is a mobile practice model designed to provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services to individuals living with a serious behavioral health condition and whose needs have not been effectively met by traditional behavioral health services. The IMT Team will serve individuals with behavioral health conditions who are street homeless or living between institutional settings and housing. Team members will work collaboratively with settings in which the participant is living and use assertive engagement strategies to proactively engage individuals in services. IMT teams are multi-disciplinary and include psychiatry, nursing, social work, peer specialists and other staff members offering rehabilitation, treatment and recovery support services. The team provides expertise in the areas of housing, substance use and harm reduction, peer support and behavioral health recovery. Based on their area of expertise, team members collaborate to deliver comprehensive, integrated and flexible services that are responsive to a participant's choices, needs and goals.
Overview:
The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) is responsible for psychiatric assessment, prescribing and medication monitoring. The PNP coordinates care with other physicians including primary care, therapists and support workers. S/he works collaboratively with the IMT Team and other medical providers to ensure that care is coordinated and delivered within the framework of participant self-determination, recovery, and cultural competency.
Core Principles:
The job responsibilities of all staff extend to understanding and incorporating certain principles into their work and into their relationships with program participants. These principles are: Program participants' right to self-determination; Respectful communication; Services that support recovery and healing consistent with and nurturing each participant's culturalbackground, experience, identity, and values. Clear professional boundaries to support the limits and possibilities of services.
Essential Job Functions:
Conduct psychiatric evaluation, mental status examinations and pharmacological evaluations with a special focus on conducting assessments and evaluations with individuals using substances or experiencing street homelessness. Prescribe medications and monitor response to prescribed medications, and readjust plans as necessary. Administer injectable medications. Educate participants and members of participant's network as desired about purposes of prescribed medications as well as side effects of medication Provide coordinated and integrated care, communicate and collaborate with primary health care providers, family, significant others and community treatment providers. Use online databases and portals e.g. PSYCKES, Healthix, MAPP, and others to support assessment and treatment planning. Provide crisis intervention services supporting staff as needed. Support discharge planning with hospital and ER staff. Assist with provision of clinical supervision, education, and training of the IMT team members. Assist with development, implementation and supervision of medication administration policies and procedures. Assist with development, implementation and required revision of psychiatric and medical treatment policies procedures. Document services, including progress notes, significant events, referrals, changes in medication and evaluations within expected timeframes in AWARDS, consistent with agency and regulatory or licensing entities. Participate in QI activities, training, and supervision with the IMT team and Program Director. Ensuring phone on-call availability 24/7. This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
Job Qualifications:
Currently licensed in NYS as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner; certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Minimum of three (3) years working with people with serious mental health conditions, co-occurring substance use disorders, and homelessness, preferred. Minimum of one (1) year working as a nurse practitioner, including prescribing preferred. Eligible for full and unconditional participation in the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Familiarity and experience with evidence-based Behavioral Health interventions and ability to train staff members in these strategies Computer proficiency in Windows operating systems and programs, as wel
