Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - PMHNP at First Step Services Raleigh, NC

Professional Development - Earn free CEUs on a variety of mental health topics

Beneficial Skills & Experience:

Forming excellent provider-patient alliances and coordinating care with external providers

Conducts outpatient psychiatric evaluations and provides ongoing medication management

Participate in enriching the training experience of our graduate students, if desired

Ensure quality internal and external customer care and service.

Perform patient histories and physicals, assess risk factors, and order therapeutic and diagnostic tests.

Consult with physicians on cases that are beyond the scope of qualification.

Instructs and counsels patients by describing therapeutic regimens.

Educate patients and their families about psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, and disease prevention.

Educate patients and their families about Medication Assisted Treatment - MAT.

Provides continuity of care by developing and implementing patient management plans.

Be responsible for providing emergency psychiatric services and physical and psychosocial examinations of patients.

Complete all documentation promptly and with a high degree of accuracy and maintain document security.

Participate in case consultations, treatment planning, and mortality reviews.

Participate in quality management functions.

Conduct follow-up data collection and reports as required.

About First Step Services:

First Step Services is an NCDHHS-licensed outpatient facility for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. First Step Services strives to utilize best practices while providing outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment and intensive outpatient services for substance use disorders in the community. Our goal is to make treatment services as accessible as possible and to reduce as many barriers to treatment as possible throughout the Triangle region of North Carolina. First Step Services strives to employ personnel who treat the person served with unconditional positive regard and respect. Our clinical personnel are highly trained and demonstrate an ability to provide excellent person-centered care in line with our mission statement. Our mission is to provide quality person-centered care and the ability to provide education and other resources to the person served by their families and significant others.

First Step Services is a proud Refresh Mental Health network. Refresh Mental Health network—a nationwide network with leading private practices and unique and specialized programs. This relationship allows us to maintain our local leadership and solid reputation in the community. It also enhances our practice with additional resources, infrastructure, and operational support, allowing you to focus on what you do best—providing exemplary care to your clients.

First Step Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values a diverse workplace. We are committed to building a team that is inclusive of all people, including those of LGBTQIA communities, members of all ethnic groups, people with disabilities and medical conditions, foreign-born residents, and veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Refresh is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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