Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Make a bigger difference

$10,000.00 Sign on Bonus , Full Benefits,  $150,000 Annual Salary

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here.  Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

• We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live. 

• Generous vacation time and paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.

• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference: 

The North Manhattan ACT program provides an integrated set of evidenced based treatment, rehabilitation, case-management and support services to individuals residing in the community who are diagnosed with severe mental illness and whose needs have not been well met by more traditional service delivery approaches.  Through a mobile, multi-disciplinary team of staff, recipients are supported in their recovery through an individualized, person-centered model of care.

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NPP) works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide treatment and support services to adults living in the community. This is a full time position. A Monday through Friday, 9-5 schedule is required. The North Manhattan ACT Team is a new program. As such, the NPP will have the opportunity to be a leader in helping this program to grow and develop and deliver excellent care to the most vulnerable clients. This position is also an excellent fit for new and early career NPPs as the NPP will be provided with enhanced supervision and support, including weekly supervision sessions with an experienced psychiatrist.

Some responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Provide health/behavioral health assessment (including differential diagnoses, prognosis), treatment recommendations and treatment planning for clients across program types. 
• Provides education and training of the team; and development, maintenance, and supervision of medication administration and psychiatric and medical treatment and procedures.
• Attend mandatory ACT trainings offered by the ACT Institute.
• Attend daily team meetings and weekly one-on-one supervisions.
• Participate in case reviews and contribute to treatment planning goal setting.
• Provide consultations to non-medical staff on complex cases
• Communicate with health care providers outside of the agency and interpretation of health results for client care planning.
• Engage clients and family as active partners in developing, reviewing, and modifying a course of care that supports the clients’ progress towards identified goals where appropriate
• Assess risk, develop safety plans and provide crisis intervention services
• Provide on-call after hour crisis intervention services when needed to participants and their support network, including respite referrals and other diversion and stabilization services; As the ACT team requires 24/7 coverage by direct phone, the NPP will provide a portion of this coverage in rotation with other team members.
• The NPP must complete an initial assessment visit in the community and visits in the community at least 80% of the time, including the required quarterly visits thereafter.  If the recipient will not come to meet the NPP at the ACT office, the NPP must provide at least monthly services or as clinically indicated for that individual in the community.
• The NPP works in collaboration with the nurse to ensure full psychiatric and medical assessment and treatment, education and training of the team and maintenance/supervision of medication administration. 
• Perform other related duties as assigned;

TO QUALIFY:

• Licensed as a NPP in the State of New York.
• A current DEA registration for the prescribing of controlled substances.
• ANCC certification or pending application is required. NYS OPRA (Ordering/Prescribing/Referring/Attending) status approved or application pending required and a Health Commerce Account in place by the onset of employment.  The former is needed to prescribe to clients with Medicaid, the latter is needed to adhere to NYS I-STOP law.
• Fluency in Spanish preferred
• Must be able to work as a team member with complex cases
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, ability to learn electronic health records and other software as required

EDUCATION / TRAINING PREFERRED:

• Licensed as a NPP in the State of New York.
• A current DEA registration for the prescribing of controlled substances.

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:

• Generous paid time off in addition to agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans 
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities 
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation 
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program  
• Life and disability insurance 
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

 We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.