Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Why You Will Love Working With Us!

At Pasadena Villa, we are a dynamic, dedicated, and growing team of professionals deeply passionate about providing evidence-based and personalized clinical care for behavioral health conditions.

Our teams foundation is client centered care and clinical excellence through our 5-star service commitment Respect, Accountability, Integrity, Flexibility, Service, and Collaboration. We are committed to our team and our team is committed to our clients!

Pasadena Villa Great Lakes is a residential psychiatric facility located in Battle Creek, Michigan. Our campus provides a beautiful modern aesthetic in a therapeutic environment, ideal for healing and recovery, including areas for reflection, outdoor walking trails, a pond water feature, and a state-of-the-art wellness and fitness center.

Position Summary

Position assists in overseeing and promoting the health and safety of clients throughout the treatment process. Nurse Practitioners provide compassionate and professional medical care and guidance to clients, ensuring optimal levels of client health and safety throughout their treatment.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provides compassionate and professional medical care and guidance to clients, ensuring optimal levels of client health and safety.
  • Cultivates and maintains a client-centered approach to care, recognizing and adapting to cultural diversity in the provision of care, incorporating clients cultural and spiritual preferences, values, and beliefs into the provision of care.
  • Cultivates and maintains a client-centered approach to confidentiality, privacy, comfort, emotional support, mutual trust, and respect.
• Collaborates with Medical Director/Medical Providers in the provision of medical care to clients.
  • Completes all required client assessments within appropriate timelines as required by payor and regulatory bodies.
  • Ensures physician orders are recorded and followed.
  • Submits lab and medication orders, as needed.
  • Oversees medication management, prescribing and monitoring efficacy, as needed.
• Leads continuous quality improvement initiatives through participation in quality and performance improvement processes.
  • Ensures processes adhere to licensure and accreditation standards.
• Collaborates with the Director of Nursing to ensure adherence to medication management and incident reporting processes.
• Completes required documentation related to assessments, medication management and clinical observations in a timely and accurate manner.
• Collaborates with Utilization Review team, engaging in peer-to-peer case review and advocacy, as needed.

Additional Responsibilities

• Functions within the guidelines of the Companys Code of Ethics and in accordance with corporate compliance.
• Maintains a high level of confidentiality in compliance with HIPAA and Company PHI guidelines.
• Models and promotes alignment with company values, mission and goals.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in continuing education opportunities, as necessary.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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Minimum Requirements

Licensed or eligible for licensure within one year to practice in the State of Michigan Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner or Family Nurse Practitioner. Possesses working knowledge of psychotherapy, psychopathology, diagnostic assessment and related treatment interventions. Knowledge of evidence-based treatments and ability to individualize treatment approaches to meet each client's needs. Must be able to conceptualize and implement master treatment plan with fully developed problems, objectives and goals and monitor other clinicians to do the same. Three plus years of psychological experience.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to communicate with peers, clients, families, other facilities and/or vendors.
• While performing duties may be required to sit stationary for long periods of time.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to talk or hear, sit, stand, walk, reach, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, taste or smell.
• Ability to move up to 25 pounds.

Other Requirements

• Valid drivers license, and acceptable three-year driving record.
• Active and clear DEA License.
• Background check clearance in accordance with regulatory requirements.