1st Choice is seeking a compassionate and skilled Bilingual (English/Spanish) Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our team and provide vital mental health services to our valued Government Client. Fluency in both English and Spanish is required.

This is an exceptional opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals and families facing mental health challenges. As a Bilingual Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, you will play a crucial role in delivering comprehensive care, including psychotherapy, medication management, and case coordination, all while working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide direct psychotherapy (individual, group, family, and crisis intervention) to clients with severe and persistent emotional and/or psychiatric problems in both English and Spanish.
• Maintain complete and up-to-date client records; collect and analyze data and prepare appropriate reports.
• Participate as an interdisciplinary team member to plan, implement and evaluate client treatment; to assess community needs and requests for service; and to evaluate overall program effectiveness.
• Perform intake services for clients applying for treatment including physical and mental assessment and screening for appropriateness of referral.
• Collaborate with public and private health and social service agencies involved in cases to provide case management and ensure coordination of services.
• Act as a consultant/liaison within the department, to the community, to other County Government personnel, and to State and local hospital staff.
• Administer and monitor medications prescribed by consulting Psychiatrist, assesses effects of same, and seeks Psychiatrist's consultation as needed; performs CPR and administers First Aid.
• Contribute to orientation and in-service training for nursing staff, students/interns and volunteers; provides CPR/First Aid training as needed; and oversees the work of graduate psychiatric nursing students.
• Perform related duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Considerable knowledge of psychiatric/community mental health nursing and public health theories, principles, practices, current literature and new developments to provide psychiatric counseling therapy/community health nursing care and case management services to individuals, families and the community.
• Considerable knowledge of personality development theories for evaluating behavior and reaction patterns of patients.
• Considerable knowledge of group interactions and theories of group therapy.
• Considerable knowledge of selected pharmaceuticals, their desired effects, side effects and complications which may arise from their use.
• Considerable knowledge of applicable Federal, State and County laws and regulations.
• Considerable knowledge of available community resources for referral.
• Considerable knowledge of the basic functions of other professions represented on the interdisciplinary team.
• Skill in applying technical nursing procedures.
• Skill in operating medical and nursing equipment.
• Ability to apply the theories, principles and techniques of psychotherapy in providing individual, group, and family therapy, and crisis intervention.
• Ability to develop rapport and cooperative relationships with clients in order to assist them in motivating themselves and redirecting their behavior.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective collaborative working relationships with team members, and staff members of outside agencies and hospitals.
• Ability to prepare and maintain complete client records.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data and prepare comprehensive reports.
• Ability to conduct physical and mental assessments and choose, initiate, and modify selected therapies.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, in both English and Spanish .
• Ability to attend meetings or perform other assignments at locations outside the office.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Fluency in both English and Spanish is required.
• Three (3) years of full-time equivalent post Registered nurse licensure experience as a nurse, two (2) years of which must have been in psychiatric/mental health nursing, one (1) year of which must have been in a community health setting.
• Possession of a current “Advanced Practice Registered Nurse/Psychiatric Mental Health” (APRN/PMH) certification issued by the Maryland State Board of Nursing.