Overview

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) will support participants and staff across programs within the Housing Division and be an integral member of the supportive housing teams. The position is flexible and adaptive, responding to changing programmatic and participant needs. Key responsibilities include psychiatric assessment, prescribing, and medication monitoring. The PNP coordinates care with other physicians including primary care, therapists and support workers, both internal and external to the organization. The PNP works collaboratively with program teams 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:

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  Program participants’ right to self-determination
• Respectful communication
• Services that support recovery and healing consistent with and nurturing each participant’s cultural background, experience, identity, and values
• Clear professional boundaries to support the limits and possibilities of services

Essential Job Functions

• Conduct psychiatric evaluations, nursing assessments and pharmacological evaluations
• Prescribe medications and monitor response to prescribed medications, readjusting plan as necessary.
• Monitor treatment and provide follow up visits, treatment for co-occurring substance use disorders and respond to crisis situations.
• Administer injectable medications.
• Educate participants and members of participant’s network as desired about side effects of medication.
• Provide coordinated and integrated care, communicating and collaborating with primary and specialty health care providers, family, significant others and community treatment providers.
• Use online databases and portals e.g. PSYCKES, Healthy, MAPP, to support assessment and treatment planning and execution.
• Support discharge planning with hospital and ER staff.
• Provide clinical supervision, consultation and health education and training to housing team and other agency staff, service providers and participants
• Assist with development, implementation and supervision of medication administration policies and procedures.
• Assist with developing, implementation and 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 quality assurance and improvement activities, training, and supervision with housing leadership.
• Work collaboratively across programs, communicating and coordinating service interventions with housing, clinical and other agency staff.

This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

Job Qualifications

• Have an understanding, appreciation, and commitment to the philosophy and mission of Community Access.
• Commitment to person-centered treatment strategies, upholding participants’ rights, and self-determination in service provision.
• Current license in NYS as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner; NYS license as a Registered Nurse; Master’s degree in advanced nursing from an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program.
• Minimum of three (3) years working with people with serious mental health conditions, co-occurring substance use disorders, and homelessness.
• Minimum of two (2) year working as a nurse practitioner, including prescribing preferred.
• Computer proficient
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Bilingual Spanish-speaking, preferred
• Must be fingerprinted and cleared by the New York State Justice Center.

Position Location: Bronx, New York

Position Status: Part-Time - 30 hours per week

Salary: $90-$94/Hour

Benefits

• Time Off Benefits: 3 weeks of vacation, 5 personal days, 12 sick days, 11 paid holidays, Work Anniversary Day
• Summer Flex Hours
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan, with Employer Match after 1 year of service
• $500 Annual Employee Wellness Fund for eligible employees
• Pre-tax savings plan (including Flexible Spending Accounts and TransitChek)
• College savings plan
• Paid Family Leave, Short-Term Disability insurance