Nurse Practitioner-Psychiatry
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Nurse Practitioner - Psychiatry
Job details
$64.00 / hour
Lowell, Massachusetts
Profession: Nurse Practitioner
Facility Type: ???
Specialty: Psychiatry
Division:
MedFi
Start Date: 10/06/2025
Responsibilities
Performs psychiatric evaluations and provides psychopharmacology management with psychotherapeutic support to clients
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.
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.
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.
Participates in Behavioral Health program projects to enhance clinical practice, teamwork and program development. Covers for Behavioral Health colleagues when needed.
Required Qualifications
Master’s 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