Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

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.

Relationships and Contacts

Within the organization : Maintains frequent and close working relationships, facility leadership, nursing, clinical and direct care team members.

Outside the organization : May initiate and maintain working relationships with clinical providers, clients and families, referral partners and vendors, as needed and directed.

Position Responsibilities

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 client's cultural and spiritual preferences, values, and beliefs into the provision of care.

Completes all required client assessments within appropriate timelines as required by payor and regulatory bodies.

Ensures processes adhere to licensure and accreditation standards.

Additional Responsibilities

Minimum Requirements

Licensed or eligible for licensure within one year to practice in the State of Virginia - 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

Other Requirements

Skill Competencies

Pasadena Villa provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Pasadena Villa reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains "At-Will."