Senior Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner PMHNP

Jewish Board; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Jewish Board is seeking a Senior Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to deliver high-quality psychiatric care to children and adults in community clinics across New York. The role emphasizes clinical leadership, collaboration with directors, and guidance to clinicians to ensure integrated, evidence-based care.

Responsibilities include diagnosis, prognosis, medication management, discharge planning, and supporting program teams with clinical consultations and supervision.

Qualifications

• Active NYS NPP license and DEA; PECOS and OPRA status required.
• Spanish-speaking NPP preferred.
• Experience across pediatric and adult populations.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric assessment, clarify diagnosis, recommend treatment options and educate on mental health and recovery.
• Support CCBHC program with clinical orientation and EHR navigation.
• Supervise and mentor NPP residents and students as needed.
• Provide program support with escalation pathways, case consultations, and coverage when needed.
• Stay current with evidence-based practices to inform clinical care and program operations.

Skills

Electronic health record proficiency

Microsoft Office

Zoom

Education

Active New York State NPP license

DEA license

PECOS status in NYS

OPRA status in NYS

Job description

Senior Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner PMHNP

For nearly 150 years, The Jewish Board has been delivering innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health services. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families, to children, teens, and adults. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of over 45,000 New Yorkers each year.

The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff use a culturally affirming, person-centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resiliency of our communities.

Position Overview

The Senior Psychiatric Provider is a highly skilled psychiatric provider (psychiatric nurse practitioner or psychiatrist) that delivers direct clinical care and supports program leadership by offering psychiatric guidance to clinicians and programs to which they are assigned. The Senior Psychiatric Provider will partner with directors or senior directors and other clinical and administrative leadership to ensure and promote the provision of outstanding integrated care. The Senior Psychiatric Provider will report to the Senior Supervising Psychiatric Provider and provide direct clinical care at least 85 % of their time. The clinical responsibilities include providing psychiatric services and care to the agency’s children and adult population in community clinic practices, including clinical diagnosis, prognosis, medication management, and discharge planning.The traditional clinical role is described in a separate job description for a Psychiatric Provider.

The Senior Psychiatric Provider is assigned to provide psychiatric support at clinical programs (e.g. CCBHC). They will assist with providing prescription coverage when providers at the programs are not working, assisting with clinical consultations, and escalation pathways. They provide clinical support to psychiatric nurse practitioner students to whom they are assigned. The Senior Psychiatric Provider:

Key Essential Functions

• Provide psychiatric assessment, clarification of clinical diagnosis, recommend treatment options and provide client education on mental health issues and strategies for recovery and review patient’s progress and recommend discharge and aftercare planning.


• Supports psychiatric best practices at the CCBHC


• Supports new practitioners joining the CCBHC by providing a clinical orientation of new hires, including support in the use of the electronic health record, and navigating a complex system.


• Supports the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NPP) Residency and psychiatric nurse practitioner students either by precepting or providing coverage for others more directly involved when coverage is needed and/or assisting with didactics.


• The Senior Psychiatric Provider is responsible for supporting programs in orienting providers to their new role for the first 3 months (longer if deemed necessary) by having regular weekly check ins with the provider to offer support around any issues AND/OR Support NPP Students who are currently enrolled in graduate programs seeing clients at programs AND/OR Support Psych providers working at programs.


• Supporting program (eg. CCBHC) with escalation pathways, case consultations and support for other psychiatric providers


• Staying up to date with evidenced based practices to support application of best practices


• Supporting and streamlining administrative and leadership issues related to programs


• Temporary/limited hours at clinical programs with psych vacancies, if needed

CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include

• Significant experience providing psychiatric care, preferably with a wide range of diagnoses and demographic groups including all age ranges.


• Demonstrated commitment to, ability for, and/or experience in training new providers.


• Comfort supervising students and newly graduated NPPs, including some NPPs coming from academic programs where they was not allowed to independently treat clients at all.


• Ability to provide at least 2 days on site.


• Ability for limited/occasional travel preferred. Locations may vary, but will include Jewish Board sites throughout the 5 boroughs of New York City and Westchester County.


• Comfort with providing supervision via remote, technology-based systems like TEAMS.

Educational/Training Required

• Active New York State NPP license and DEA. Approved PECOS and OPRA status in NYS required.

Experience Required/Language Preference

• Spanish Speaking NPP preferred.

Computer Skills Required

• Proficient with electronic health record


• Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook); comfortable and proficient using audio video platforms (i.e., Zoom).

Visual and Manual Dexierity

• The work environment involves no physical risk or hazardous conditions.


• To perform the essential functions of this job, the candidate is routinely required to sit ( 90% of the time) and stand ( 10% of the time)

Work Environment/Physical Effort

• The work environment involves no physical risk or hazardous conditions.


• To perform the essential functions of this job, the candidate is routinely required to sit ( 90% of the time) and stand ( 10% of the time)

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.

Our Values.

Our values help guide us in everything we do, from our relationships with fellow staff to the clients and communities we serve.

Treat every person
with dignity

We act with respect and caring towards our clients, colleagues, and communities.

Strive to
be outstanding

We are exceptional professionals in all that we do.

Embrace each
other’s differences

We create a fair and inclusive environment for all.

Engage individuals and families
as our partners

We heal our communities one person at a time through thoughtful collaboration.

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.

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.