Nurse Practitioner - Psychiatry

Nurse Practitioner - Psychiatry

Part-Time, Flexible Schedule

Bethpage, NY

Salary: $110 - $120/hr

We’re excited to offer EARNED WAGE ACCESS! Work today, get paid tomorrow!

Find more in your career at Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. (FREE), currently serving over 4,000 people with ID/DD, mental illness & brain injury. We’re seeking people exceptional people who are seeking a growth career to join us!

Overseen by Terry’s Place Management, the Nurse Practitioner is responsible for evaluating the psychiatric needs of individuals, assisting with the development of an Individual’s Treatment Plan and prescribing and overseeing the medication regimen of individuals receiving clinical services with the program. The nurse practitioner will refer individuals for appropriate services as needed. The nurse practitioner will ensure that there is a team effort to provide overall high-quality mental health services and work closely with all team members.

Specifically, you will:

• Cooperate with all members of staff to ensure that the patients’ overall health needs, both physical and mental are being met as needed.
• Conduct meetings with other staff members as needed to ensure that there is a well-coordinated care plan among all disciplines providing services to a patient.
• Demonstrate positive interpersonal skills in all interactions with patients, caretakers, peers and management.
• Address emergency situations as they occur in the program according to established policies and procedures, and ensure communication of such situations in a timely fashion.
• Provide coverage in emergency situations until relieved of the responsibility.
• Complete psychiatric evaluation reports for patients as needed.
• Interview referred patients and other individuals familiar with the patient in order to diagnose mental health problems.
• Participate in internal and external committees, groups and stakeholder meetings as needed.
• Document assessments and responses to treatment appropriately on the medical record; write reports as necessary.
• Ensure that input to electronic patient records is kept current including an up-to-date care plan.
• Handle records in a professional manner to protect patient and employee confidentiality and as per HIPAA guidelines.

We require:

• Master's of Science in Nursing (MSN); or Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) with required advanced certificate reflecting psychiatric specialization
• State Licensed and Board Certified Nurse Practitioner
• License actively registered and current with the Office of Professions
• An approved Medicaid provider
• Active NPI with Medicaid and Medicare privileges
• Active DEA Registration
• 1 year experience working with mental health population (inclusive of prescribing and monitoring of psychiatric medications) with some generalist/primary care experience

FREE is a 2023 Top Long Island Workplace!

Nurse Practitioner, for immediate consideration, email a resume to careers@ familyres.org

Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. (FREE) is a nonprofit founded in 1977 and headquartered in Old Bethpage, benefits and proudly supports more than 4,000 individuals with intellectual/ developmental disabilities, mental illness and traumatic brain injury. It is the mission of FREE to help individuals of all abilities realize their full potential. FREE provides a diverse array of supports and services including: housing, recovery services, transition to work, employment, day, community and family services, respite, crisis services, education and after-school support, primary and specialty health care and advocacy.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.