Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Schedule: TBD; hours falling between Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Pay: $77.00 / hour

The Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC), operated by the Department of Mental Health (DMH), seeks an experienced Advanced Practice Registered Nurse to serve as a full time Nurse Practitioner. The Nurse Practitioner will be at the forefront of ensuring the consistent and high-quality delivery of nursing services across the Center's various departments and clinics. This role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities, from providing pharmacological management, and caring for patients with chronic psychiatric conditions to coordinating multidisciplinary services for patients with complex psychiatric and medical needs as well as providing comprehensive mental health education. This position offers an exciting and dynamic opportunity to promote wellness-oriented self-care and advocate for mental health patients and their families within a leading mental health center. Your diagnostic skills and innovation will contribute significantly to the overall excellence and effectiveness of services, ensuring that MMHC remains at the forefront of delivering top-notch care and meeting the needs of its community.

Responsibilities also include:
Attends the clinic for the assigned hours of the position and informs the medical director of proposed
absences.
Arranges coverage for duties when away and provides coverage for absent colleagues.
Prescribes and monitors psychiatric medications as required for the appropriate treatment of patients'
conditions
Plans medication strategies based on individualized needs and preferences and with consideration of
potential barriers to or facilitators of adherence, side effects, and drug-drug interactions.
Contributes nursing perspective in clinical team meetings and consults on medical issues with team
members.
Provides on-call responsibilities, same-day triage, and consultation to patients, team members, and
residential staff as appropriate and needed.
Supervises trainees of various disciplines in psychopharmacology as required or assigned.
Teach the psychopharmacology didactic to master's level clinicians and participate in PGY-2 weekly
psychopharmacology didactics.
Coordinates care with other medical specialists and institutions
Perform other related duties, as required

Why Vinfen? We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

Our comprehensive and generous benefits package includes:

• A fully funded, employer-sponsored retirement plan that requires no employee contribution as well as an employee-funded 403(b) plan
• First-rate Medical, Dental and Vision plans that are open all employees scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more. Plus, we offer a generous employer contribution toward the cost of medical insurance!
• Employer-paid Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Long-Term Disability Insurance (no cost to you!)
• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability Insurance along with the option to purchase additional, voluntary, Short-Term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts (Health and Dependent care)
• Voluntary Term, Whole Life, Accident and Critical Care Insurance
• Generous paid time off (Employees scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week):
• 15 days of Vacation per year
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 10 Sick Days per year
• 3 Personal Days per year
• Educational Assistance and Remission Programs
• $500 Employee Referral Bonus with no annual cap!
• Other generous benefits including discounted YMCA memberships, access to discounted movie tickets and more!

About Us:

Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. Vinfen's 3,500 dedicated employees are experienced, highly-trained professionals who provide a full range of supportive living, health, educational, and clinical services in over 550 sites throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. For more information about Vinfen, please visit www.vinfen.org/careers.

My Job. My Community. My Vinfen.

Vinfen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Requirements/Preferences:
-Masters degree in Nursing is required
-Current and valid registration as a professional nurse under the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing.
-Current and valid authorization to practice as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing.
-Valid DEA License
-Valid Massachusetts Controlled Substance Registration (MCSR) License
-Three years of full-time, or equivalent part-time, experience as a registered nurse in a recognized hospital, clinic, or medical facility
-History of using evidence-based therapies, interventions, and behavioral techniques in a community treatment setting.
-Knowledge of public and private community-based resources for patients
-Knowledge of the theories, principles, and practice of psychiatric advanced practice nursing.
-Experience with the diagnostic and treatment methods and techniques used in psychiatric advanced practice nursing.
-Capacity for patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of mental health problems and the promotion of health.
-Medical knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate sciences (e.g., epidemiological and social-behavioral) and the application of this knowledge to patient care.
-Interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective information exchange and teaming with patients, their families, and other health professionals.
-Must be able to pass all applicable background checks