Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
Nurse Practitioner
Key Responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and assessments.
- Diagnose and treat mental health and behavioral health conditions.
- Obtain medical and psychiatric histories and perform mental status examinations.
- Prescribe and manage psychiatric medications.
- Monitor medication effectiveness, response, compliance, and potential concerns.
- Develop individualized treatment and service plans.
- Evaluate complex mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical health needs.
- Provide case management and coordinate care with community providers.
- Work with individuals experiencing serious mental illness, substance-use disorders, developmental disabilities, and co-occurring disorders.
- Collaborate with psychiatrists, clinicians, nurses, and other multidisciplinary team members.
- Monitor the delivery of clinical services and participant treatment.
- Ensure compliance with applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
- Participate in periodic on-call responsibilities.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in Nursing
- Current Virginia Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner license
- Minimum 2 years of clinical practice as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- DEA registration/certificate to prescribe controlled substances
- Knowledge and experience working with mental illness and substance-use disorders
- Knowledge of co-occurring mental health and substance-use disorders
- Ability to prescribe and manage medications within the scope of practice
- Ability to perform psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis, treatment planning, and medication management
Preferred / Relevant Experience
- Experience in community behavioral health
- Experience with crisis stabilization or crisis services
- Experience treating serious mental illness
- Experience working with substance-use disorders
- Experience with co-occurring disorders
- Experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities
- Experience in multidisciplinary behavioral health settings
Schedule
- Standard business hours
- Periodic on-call responsibilities outside normal working hours
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Virginia Retirement System
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Health Savings Account / Flexible Spending Account options
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) employer