Mobile MOUD NP: OUD Treatment & Assessment

VIP Community Services; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

VIP Community Services is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to conduct DSM-5-TR based clinical assessments and establish OUD diagnoses with individualized treatment plans. You will screen for co-occurring conditions, perform overdose risk assessments, and review PDMP data for each admission.

Under Medical Director oversight, you will initiate MOUD, including the first methadone dose on the Mobile Medication Unit when appropriate, and support shared decision-making for FDA-approved options.

Qualifications

• Current New York State licensure as a Nurse Practitioner and current DEA registration.
• Buprenorphine-prescribing authority and completion of required OUD training.
• Experience providing MOUD or treating individuals with opioid use disorder.
• Willingness to work on a mobile medication unit and a flexible schedule including early mornings.

Responsabilités

• Conduct DSM-5-TR based clinical assessment and establish OUD diagnosis and individualized treatment plans.
• Screen for co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders and complete structured overdose risk assessment.
• Check the New York State PDMP for each new admission and document results.
• Initiate MOUD, including first methadone dose on the unit when clinically appropriate, under Medical Director oversight.
• Provide shared decision-making so individuals have a genuine choice of FDA-approved medications.
• Coordinate rapid linkage to clinic-based ongoing dosing and care; maintain timely EHR documentation.

Connaissances

MOUD experience

DSM-5-TR assessment

Initiate MOUD on unit

Outils

EHR documentation

Description du poste

Under the oversight of the Medical Director, the Nurse Practitioner conducts clinical assessment

and MOUD induction on the Mobile Medication Unit and at the clinic. The Nurse Practitioner

completes DSM-5-TR based assessment, co-occurring screening, and structured overdose risk

assessment, reviews the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, and, through shared decision

making, determines the appropriate FDA-approved medication and initiates treatment when

clinically appropriate.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

• Conduct DSM-5-TR based clinical assessment and establish OUD diagnosis and individualized treatment plans.
• Screen for co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders and complete structured overdose risk assessment.
• Check the New York State PDMP for each new admission and document results.
• Initiate MOUD, including first methadone dose on the unit when clinically appropriate,under Medical Director oversight.
• Provide shared decision-making so individuals have a genuine choice of FDA-approvedmedications.
• Coordinate rapid linkage to clinic-based ongoing dosing and care; maintain timely EHRdocumentation.

Requirements

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Current New York State licensure as a Nurse Practitioner and current DEA registration.
• Buprenorphine-prescribing authority and completion of required OUD training.
• Experience providing MOUD or treating individuals with opioid use disorder.
• Willingness to work on a mobile medication unit and a flexible schedule including early
• mornings.

JOB SETTING:

• Office and mobile setting.
• Periodically functions within a thirty (30) foot motorized Mobile Medication Unit;
• temperature-controlled for inclement weather.
• Must possess sight, hearing, and manual senses, or prosthetics that ensure completion
• of the essential functions of the position.
• Occasionally must lift a maximum of 10 lbs.