Remote Crisis Care Nurse Practitioner (Part-Time)

Your Role

As a Crisis Care Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, you will provide telehealth evidence-based behavioral health care including comprehensive clinical assessments, differential diagnosis, creating and implementing co-created clinical treatment plans, and medication management. You will work alongside our diverse and passionate multidisciplinary clinical team taking care of Willow Health’s patients and making an impact in our clinical program. Our clinical team includes psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, licensed clinical social workers, licensed mental health clinicians, certified peer specialists, case managers, and clinical operations. We are looking for a thoughtful, empathic, and skilled clinician to join our highly motivated team to help improve behavioral health crisis care. This is a fully virtual role.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive clinical assessments and develop differential diagnosis
• Provide psychiatric medication management
• Build therapeutic alliance with patients
• Create and implement co-created personalized treatment plans with our multidisciplinary team
• Manage a caseload of patients who you will follow for 8 to 12 weeks providing medication management
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessment and safety planning
• Utilize validated clinical tools to aid in differential diagnosis
• Work across our multidisciplinary clinical team to facilitate comprehensive behavioral health crisis care
• Actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings
• Maintain appropriate documentation of all patient-related care
• Engage with clinical supervision
• Work with our patients, their families, and their providers in the community to ensure comprehensive behavioral health care
Working hours for the clinic are Monday - Friday from 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM Eastern Time.
This role is a 32-hour, 4-day per week position.
This role requires on-call:
Day-time: Monday - Friday from 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM (on days you are already scheduled)
Weekday night: Monday - Thursday from 7:30 PM to 10:30 AM (next day)
Weekend: Friday 7:30 PM - Monday 10:30 AM (continuous full-weekend coverage)

Role Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (or equivalent non-U.S. degree)
Board Certification
Master of Science in Nursing degree or a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree (or equivalent non-U.S. degree)
Hold an active license to practice in New York
Maintain all state requirements and continuing education requirements to provide behavioral health care
Has experience with clinical assessments, developing differential diagnosis, creating and implementing clinical treatment plans, and psychiatric medication management
Has at least 3 years of clinical experience of psychiatric medication management
Has experience with clinical risk management, suicide risk assessment, and safety planning
Has experience and is comfortable with using validated clinical tools to help enhance clinical care
Has experience with and is comfortable with using technology
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary clinical team
Experience working with an electronic medical record (EMR)

Nice to Have

Post degree experience in providing emergency mental health services and/or urgent behavioral healthcare
Completed Psychiatric fellowship
Comprehensive knowledge of substance abuse, mental health, and recovery issues and principles
Has experience with using clinical outcomes to help enhance clinical care
Has experience launching and iterating on a clinical care model, (preferred, not required)
Experience in a start-up healthcare setting and/or an innovative healthcare program (preferred, not required)

Our Interview Process:

1. Complete the application
2. Phone screen
3. First interview with team member
4. Clinical skill assessment with the hiring manager
5. Reference check
6. Offer
7. Background check

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