Part Time PMHNP Nurse Practitioner Psychiatry

Position will be scheduled an estimated 20 hours a week between Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm. No Nights or Weekends.

We are seeking a dynamic, mission-driven Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP to put the principles of team-based collaborative care and population health into action for our medically complex & socially vulnerable members.

The Team Psychiatric Provider serves as a psychiatric subject matter expert (SME) within the integrated team and collaborates with our interdisciplinary care teams to improve the psychiatric care of our members.

Roles & Responsibilities

Provide Clinical Guidance and Direct Care for Members with Acute and Chronic Behavioral Health needs to include:

• Guide behavioral health treatment of a specified cohort of behavioral health patients, through shared care with other behavioral health clinicians and the primary care provider, using a modified Collaborative Care Model
• Provide interdisciplinary collaboration to make recommendations for the successful management of high risk, high utilizing members with co-occurring behavioral health concerns, including but not limited to: screening, therapeutic interventions, approaches to communication, medication interventions
• Provide education and ongoing consultative support to on and offsite providers related to medical management for BH population
• Provide direct patient care to members requiring evaluation and access to psychiatry
• Provide tele-psychiatry to appropriate members
• Support with Transitional Care Management, Emergency Department diversion and Crisis Intervention
• Outreach to local inpatient and outpatient mental health providers, when needed, to facilitate communication and care coordination
• Conduct post discharge visits for members discharging from inpatient psychiatric admissions
• Advise and assist with management of behavioral health medications, including long acting injectables (LAIs)
• Support with medication reconciliation especially post ED encounter and post hospitalization encounter
• Support Addiction Treatment with Emphasis on Medication-Assisted Treatment
• Support the interdisciplinary care team in providing ambulatory-based interventions for common substance use disorders, through us of medications such as buprenorphine and naltrexone
• Participate in developing clinical protocols for Medication-Assisted Treatment

Candidate Qualifications

• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) with 3-5 years experience
• DEA
• BLS certification required
• Experience with addiction medicine preferred
• Experience in population health management is preferred
• Experience working with psycho-socially and medically complex Medicaid beneficiaries is strongly preferred
• Experience and comfort utilizing EMR

Our company is designed to care for society’s most complex patients under innovative value-based care arrangements. Patients typically have been underserved by traditional health care, resulting in bouncing between emergency rooms, hospitals, and specialists. Our care teams break the status quo by transforming our members’ experience to improve quality of life and overall health outcomes while reducing high costs of unnecessary utilization. This exceptional care is provided by an integrated team of primary care providers, nurses, complex care managers, behavioral health clinicians, medical assistants, and community health workers. We offer coordinated medical care with our onsite infusion center, full pharmacy, and lab & imaging suites. We also address the SDOH, addressing housing instability, food insecurity, and social isolation.

Pay: From $1.00 per year

Work Location: In person