Lynn Community Health Center is offering a training position for a masters-level nurse pursuing licensure as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner or Clinical Nurse Specialist. This role involves providing psychiatric consultation to various health center and community providers, managing patient care, and delivering psychodiagnostic and psychotherapeutic treatments. The successful candidate will benefit from supervision by two providers and participate in in-house training opportunities.
Practice Info
•Training position for a masters level nurse.
•Supervision provided by two providers in prescribing essentials and weekly supervision by a Supervising Psychiatrist.
•Involves in-house training with post docs and psychiatric NP students.
•Provides psychiatric consultation to Lynn Community Health Center case managers, medical, mental health, and substance abuse providers, as well as community providers.
•Delivers direct psychodiagnostic, psychotherapeutic treatments, psychopharmacological evaluation management, and therapy to registered clients of the Health Center.
•Participates on interdisciplinary teams and in LCHC community outreach efforts.
Responsibilities
•Provide psychiatric consultation to Lynn Community Health Center case managers, medical, mental health, substance abuse providers, and community providers.
•Triage psychiatric inpatient admissions and assist in discharge treatment plans.
•Maintain patient progress notes and chart all medications.
•Provide direct psychodiagnostic, psychotherapeutic treatments, psychopharmacological evaluation management, and therapy to registered clients.
•Participate in LCHC community outreach efforts, including serving as a health consultant for local organizations.
•Design client-centered treatment plans with appropriate interventions and provide ongoing treatment evaluation and redesign.
•Participate on interdisciplinary teams and collaborate with other providers involved in client care.
•Provide crisis intervention and client and family education.
Benefits
•All necessary vaccines are available at no charge at the health center.
Shift & Schedule
•Full-time, 40 hours per week.
Requirements
•Graduate Degree in mental health related area.
•Licensure or license eligible to practice psychiatric nursing in Massachusetts.
•Certified or eligible as a psychiatric nurse clinical specialist in Massachusetts (APRN).
•History of good attendance and positive work attitude.
