Psychiatric - Mental Health Physician

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Job description

Psychiatric NP opening outside of BostonLocated in Brighton, MA; Boston 10mFull Time; PermanentEmployedJob Requirements:- Masters degree as psychiatric/mental health Clinical Nurse Specialist or Nurse Practitioner or ANCC certification as NP with more than 5 years in psychiatric experience and prescribing psychotropics.- License to practice in the Commonwealth of MA as a Registered Nurse/Advanced Practice Nurse with prescribing authority.- ANCC certification as a Psychiatric/Mental Health NP or CNS. - 2-5 years of experience in an advanced practice role with prescriptive practice. - Minimum of 1 year elder experience.- Evidence of competence in evaluation and treatment of older adults, including psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, crisis evaluations and consultation to caregivers. Responsibilities- Provides behavioral health consultation and support to the Interdisciplinary Team to increase the ability of team members to integrate psychiatric concepts/skills into the delivery of care.- Participates in Behavioral Health program projects to enhance clinical practice, teamwork and program development.- Covers for Behavioral Health colleagues when needed.- Ability to pass a fit test. Position requires mask where seal is critical. Incumbent is required to not have facial hair that interferes with a tight seal of the respirator.- Performs psychiatric evaluations and provides psychopharmacology management with psychotherapeutic support to clients, as well as individual and group psychotherapy in selected situations, and provides behavioral health consultation to other disciplines.- Acts as a role model for professional relationships, effective communication and teamwork.- Performs routine and urgent psychiatric evaluations.- Develops clinically appropriate behavioral health treatment plans.- Implements evidence based and best practice psychiatric interventions. - Monitors clients response to psychotropic medications and other interventions and adjusts plans, as necessary.- Documents interventions, medication plans and rationale/response in the EHR.- Other duties as required.

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