Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your career while working with an extraordinary team? At Merakey, we put heart and soul into everything we do. We are seeking a part-time Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) to support our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team in Stroudsburg, PA.
Shift: 10 hours/week (onsite) supporting Monroe County, Carbon County, and Pike County.
Earn up to $80.00/hour (depending on experience)
Position Details:
The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner is part of a multidisciplinary team that provides comprehensive mental health care to patients living with chronic mental illness. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will work in collaboration with our care team to diagnose and manage patients' mental health concerns. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will provide services in the community.
Other duties include:
Conducting psychiatric patient evaluations to determine medication needs, documenting evaluations and interactions with the patient in the electronic health record.
Prescribing pharmacologic therapies including controlled substances, monitoring progress and making necessary changes to patients' medications.
Facilitating direct patient admissions into hospitals when needed.
Participate in weekly multidisciplinary team meetings to develop coordinated treatment plans.
Our team:
Assertive Community Treatment, or ACT, is a way of delivering a full range of services to people who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness. ACT's goal is to give consumers adequate community care and to help them have a life that isn't dominated by their mental illness. ACT is designed to support individuals who have been unsuccessful with traditional mental health services.
Learn more about our program here: https://www.merakey.org/programs/act
Benefits
Merakey offers benefits tailored to support your unique work arrangements.
About Merakey
Merakey is a non-profit provider of developmental, behavioral health, and education services. More than 8,000 employees provide support to nearly 40,000 individuals and families throughout 12 states across the country each year. Click here to watch a video about Merakey.
Merakey strictly follows a zero-tolerance policy for abuse.
Merakey is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer! We deeply value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ethnic background, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or disability status. Moreover, we are committed to creating teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. Merakey welcomes all Veterans to apply!
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will posses:
Merakey is a leading developmental, behavioral health and education non-profit provider offering a breadth of integrated services to individuals and communities across the country. We leverage our size and expertise to develop innovative solutions and new models of care to meet the needs of individuals, their families, public and private healthcare funders and community partner organizations. We recognize that complex needs require a holistic approach. With our experience, expertise and compassion, we empower everyone within our communities to reach their fullest potential.
PURPOSE: Putting our heart and soul into exceptional care.
VISION: To be a nationally recognized provider of the highest quality health and human services.
CORE VALUES: Compassion | Diversity | Integrity | Quality | Safety | Trust
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 2018, NHS HUMAN SERVICES, INC. CHANGED ITS NAME TO MERAKEY!
