Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NPP) Resident

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.   Reasons you’ll love working with us:   If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here.  Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.   With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.    Generous vacation time and paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.   We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.   You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.   How you can make a bigger difference:  The Jewish Board is a large and diverse human services agency, with an annual budget of $240 million, 3,000 employees, and 60 service locations around the five boroughs. Our mission is to empower New Yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.  Our vision is to transform lives and communities through clinical and operational excellence.   POSITION OVERVIEW: The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NPP) Resident takes part in the Jewish Board’s Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Residency, a unique and pioneering one-year program that provides a structured, nurturing training and learning environment for newly graduated and early career NPPs.   The NPP Resident is a full-time, fully credentialed NPP and a regular employee of the Jewish Board (as opposed to trainees, students, interns, etc.) NPP Residents learn to provide welcoming and comprehensive care in collaboration with clients, supervisors, families and other colleagues and stakeholders, using a recovery-based lens that is person-centered, trauma-informed, culturally competent, and outcomes driven.   The Jewish Board is a mental health and social services agency. We proudly support people of all ages, religions, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and physical and intellectual abilities across New York City’s five boroughs.         The NPP Residents’ RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to:  Working a minimum of 2 days on site in our clinical programs in New York City. The Residency Program works with the NPP Resident to make this in person requirement sustainable. (The remaining portion of the Residents’ schedule is remote-based.) Providing direct, independent client care under their own license as a NPP, in supervised clinical rotations. The Residency’s Preceptors provide regular and intensive supervision and support to Residents throughout their Residency year. Providing behavioral health assessment including diagnoses, prognosis, treatment recommendations and planning and coordination with other care providers like therapists. Providing medication management for clients, including administering injectables. Communicating and collaborating with health care providers outside of the agency to enhance clients’ medical health. Frequently “checking-in” with Preceptors to discuss various issues including diagnoses, medication choices, psychosocial stressors, medical concerns, etc. Engaging in didactic and quality improvement activities, e.g. presentations and research on medications; independently developing new approaches to broader issues impacting mental health care.     PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE: Ability to travel required throughout the 5 boroughs of New York City. Demonstrated ability for critical thinking, receptiveness to feedback, curiosity and thoughtfulness, and demonstrated motivation to learn   EDUCATION / TRAINING REQUIREMENTS: Master’s degree in Psychiatric Nursing required Active New York State license as a NPP and RN and DEA license aresequired. Approved OPRA status in NYS preferred; application for OPRA status at point of hire is required. ANCC certification or pending application is required.      VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY, WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT   To perform the essential functions of this job, the candidate is routinely required to sit ( 90% of the time) and stand ( 10% of the time)   If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits: Generous paid time off in addition to agency holidays and 15 sick days Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans  Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness Free continuing education opportunities  403(b) retirement benefits and a pension Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation  24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program   Life and disability insurance    Who we are:   The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.   More on Equal Opportunity:

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