Overview
The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) will support participants and staff across different agency-programs including those within the Community Health Division and the Housing Division. The PNP will be an integral member of the Bronx Shelter ACT Team (Assertive Community Treatment) and other mobile teams. The position is flexible and adaptive, responding to changing programmatic and participant needs. Key responsibilities include psychiatric assessment, prescribing, and medication monitoring. The PNP coordinates care with other physicians including primary care, therapists and support workers, both internal and external to the organization. The PNP works collaboratively with program teams and other medical providers to ensure that care is coordinated and delivered within the framework of participant self-determination, recovery, and cultural competency.
Core Principles
The job responsibilities of all staff extend to understanding and incorporating certain principles into their work and into their relationships with program participants. These principles are:

• Program participants’ right to self determination;
• Respectful communication;
• Services that support recovery and healing consistent with and nurturing each participant’s cultural background, experience, identity, and values.
• Clear professional boundaries to support the limits and possibilities of services.

Essential Job Functions

• Conduct psychiatric evaluations, mental status examinations and pharmacological evaluations
• Prescribe medications and monitor response to prescribed medications readjusting plan as necessary.
• Administer injectable medications.
• Educate participants and members of participant’s network as desired about side effects of medication.
• Provide coordinated and integrated care, communicating and collaborating with primary and specialty health care providers, family, significant others and community treatment providers.
• Use online databases and portals e.g. PSYCKES, Healthix, MAPP, to support assessment and treatment planning and execution.
• Provide crisis intervention services supporting staff as needed.
• Support discharge planning with hospital and ER staff.
• Provide clinical supervision, consultation and health education and training to ACT team and other agency staff, service providers and participants
• Assist with development, implementation and supervision of medication administration policies and procedures.
• Assist with developing, implementation and revision of psychiatric and medical treatment policies procedures.
• Document services, including progress notes, significant events, referrals, changes in medication and evaluations within expected timeframes in AWARDS, consistent with agency and regulatory or licensing entities.
• Participate in QA and improvement activities, training, and supervision with team Psychiatrist and leadership.
• Available for on-call consultation as needed.
• Work collaboratively across programs, communicating and coordinating service interventions with housing, clinical and other agency staff

Job Qualifications

• Commitment to person-centered treatment strategies, upholding participants’ rights, and self-determination in service provision.
• Current license in NYS as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner; NYS license as a Registered Nurse; Master’s degree in advanced nursing from an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program.
• Minimum of three (3) years working with people with serious mental health conditions, co-occurring substance use disorders, and homelessness.
• Minimum of two (2) year working as a nurse practitioner, including prescribing preferred.
• Computer proficient
• Bilingual Spanish-speaking, preferred
• Must be fingerprinted and cleared by the New York State Justice Center.

For more information and to apply, please contact :
Howard Newman
Account Manager, Bond Health Staffing
5824 12th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11219
Office: 1-718-302-0040 ext. 204
Fax: 1-718-302-0070

Howard@bondhealthstaffing.com