Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Psychiatry

Company: Community Reach Center
Location: Westminster
Posted on: September 8, 2023

Job Description:

Psychiatric Nurse PractitionerTitle: Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Classification: Exempt

Manager: Chief Medical Officer

Duties:

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner ("NP") is an integral member of Community Reach Center's Broomfield Office ("Division") Division. The NP under limited supervision, provides psychiatric medication services at the site assigned. Provides clinical care, assessment, treatment, and support services to adult consumers and /or their families including planning, implementation, and documentation. Additionally, the NP will have other duties and responsibilities as determined from time to time by the Chief Medical Officer.

Community Reach Center Systems, Inc. holds all employees accountable for continuously meeting department and job specific key performance indicators (KPIs). A KPI is a quantifiable measure of performance over time for a specific objective. KPIs specific to an individual's role will be communicated by their direct supervisor. Employees are held accountable for meeting their specified KPIs. If an employee is unable to meet KPIs continuously, disciplinary action will occur.

Essential Functions:

* Provide direct psychiatric services through comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of consumers.
* Prescribe and administer medications, assist in consumer medication management in collaboration with the supervising Psychiatrist under State of Colorado guidelines.
* Stabilize chronic psychiatric illness and treat acute, self-limiting conditions
* Provide consultations to staff and participate in staff conferences and serve on committees.
* Provide coverage for mental health emergencies, including mental health holds.
* Complete medical records, reports, and provide need referrals to medical services and primary care providers.
* Coordinate consumer care regarding access to services, lab tests, case management, primary clinician, outreach services and other agencies.
* Medical expertise consistent with advanced practice nursing knowledge of the psychotropic and similar drugs, competency in mental health treatment.
* Provides care to consumers in a manner that recognizes the human potential, is empathic and demonstrates unconditional positive regard while promoting safety, comfort, and the therapeutic environment.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate should be board certified or board eligible. Experience relevant to clinical setting with understand of psychiatric services in health, psychiatric assessment, clinical diagnosis, psychopharmacology, and direct consumer care.

* Meets Colorado Medical Board rules and regulations for licensure of and practice by Nurse Practitioner
* Master's Physician studies or Nurse Practitioner studies
* Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner License in Colorado
* Valid DEA license and BLS Certificate every 2 years
* Bilingual Spanish preferred

Physical Requirements:

* Regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and keyboard.
* Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
* Light to moderate lifting is required,
* Regular, predictable attendance is required.

All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment.

Community Reach Center is an EEO/AAP Employer-Minorities/Women/Disabled/Protected Veterans. Apply at www.communityreachcenter.org

CRC benefits package: medical insurance, health savings accounts, dental, vision, mail-order prescriptions, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, employer paid short and long-term disability insurance, employer matching 401(k), generous PTO plan, EAP, and flex spending accounts.

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