Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services

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Make a bigger difference

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 15 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:

Youth ACT teams are an exciting new model of care that aim to stabilize children in their communities and to prevent re-hospitalization and institutionalization. Each multi-disciplinary team works intensively with a small group of children and their families directly in the community.

Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services are focused on improving or ameliorating the significant functional impairments and sever symptomatology experienced by youth due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Clinical and rehabilitative interventions are also focused on enhancing family functioning to foster health/wellbeing, stability and re-integration for youth who are returning home after residential treatment or in-patient hospitalization.

The Youth ACT Team Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide treatment and support services to families and children, ages 10 to 21. The role will require some evening availability and rotating on-call coverage. The Youth ACT Team Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner is under the supervision of the psychiatrist. Specific responsibilities include:

Providing psychiatric services which includes:

• Provision of a full behavioral health (including health) assessment;
• Diagnosis;
• Treatment recommendations;
• Treatment planning;
• Clinical treatment, and;
• Follow up planning.
• Participating in shared decision making with the child/youth, families and multi-disciplinary team.
• Providing services to youth and families in their homes and communities and collaborates closely with other service providers and systems with which the family interacts.
• In conjunction with the Director/Team leader, has clinical responsibility for monitoring recipient treatment and staff delivery of clinical services

Qualifications

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

• A current license to practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner 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
• Training/and experience with child and adolescent psychiatry is preferred.
• Must be able to work as a team member with complex cases.

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

• Generous paid time off in addition to 15 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
• 27/7 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.

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.

Other details

• Job Family : Clinical Staff [300s]
• Job Function : Medical Professionals
• Pay Type : Salary
• Employment Indicator : 8833 - Hospital - Professional Employees
• Required Education : Master's Degree

 

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