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Eliot Community Human Services ACCS Nurse Practitioner in Danvers, Massachusetts
Description
Eliot is known for our innovative clinical approach, high quality clinical training and for having the most talented people in community behavioral health services. Eliot’s Behavioral Health Division provides an integrated and comprehensive network of services to adults with psychiatric disabilities that are evidence based, provide rehabilitation and hope to those in services.
Eliot is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to act as the psychiatric clinician working with individuals with mental illness in an outreach and residential setting. The Nurse Practitioner works within the context of the multidisciplinary ACCS team to develop a treatment plan for each individual served.
Responsibilities:
Act as the psychiatric clinician for individuals served by ACCS teams and Respite services.
Provide and promote services that are culturally responsive, strengths-based, recovery-oriented, and inclusive of patient preferences.
Provide services flexible to individuals’ needs via office sessions, outreach, or community sessions as clinically appropriate.
Conduct biopsychosocial assessments and implement comprehensive psychiatric treatment recommendations, including but not limited to recommendations for psychotropic medications and medications to treat substance use and tobacco use disorders.
Provide comprehensive education regarding presenting conditions and treatment options to support shared decision-making and informed consent.
Monitor therapeutic effectiveness and side effects and conduct appropriate lab monitoring for all prescribed medications.
Provide motivational interviewing and counseling around harm reduction practices to individuals with substance use and tobacco use disorders.
Support engagement with other medical care providers as appropriate. Refer to, consult, and collaborate with other medical/health service providers as appropriate.
Provide basic medical assessment/workup and monitoring (including lab monitoring as necessary), within the scope of practice, for individuals having difficulty participating in routine medical care.
Qualifications:
Requires Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from an accredited university/college and is currently licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing to practice as a licensed Nurse Practitioner and is registered to practice as a Nurse Practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Maintains a valid registration(s) to issue written oral prescriptions or medication orders for controlled substances from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the United States Department of Justice,
Drug Enforcement Administration. Maintains current malpractice/liability insurance.
Experience in acute psychiatric care required.
Meets third party and Department of Public Health clinic regulations for reimbursable.
PMHNP Preferred
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00a-4:00p or 9:00a-5:00p
Location: Danvers, MA
Salary
Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.
Qualifications
Skills
Preferred
Board Certified Yes: Expert
Med Administration: Expert
Licenses & Certifications
Required
- Nurse Practitioner