Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Description:

This is an exciting, cutting edge opportunity to learn & practice the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Psychiatric evidence-based model for youth with behavior and psychiatric problems in a team-oriented setting!

Seeking individuals with experience in child and adult psychiatry to help implement Multisystemic Therapy with Psychiatric Supports to court-mandated youth aged 12-17 and their caregivers.

MST is a psychiatric treatment program for youth with psychiatric problems within their home environment, intervening in the systems, family, and care-giving environment. MST helps reduce barriers that would normally prevent families from accessing services. The MST-Psychiatric team consists of 3 therapists, 1 supervisor and a case aide.

Responsibilities:

• Provide psychiatric evaluations of child and adult family members.
• Ongoing interface with the MST-Psychiatric treatment team concerning psychiatric and medical diagnoses that pertain to child and family.
• Act as a community liaison with outside physicians/psychiatrists concerning additional medical or psychiatric care.
• Provide the team with emergency psychiatric evaluations of child and adult family members as needed in the office or community
• Coordinate hospitalization of child and adult family members as needed
• Keep a close ongoing collaboration with inpatient physicians and clinical team when child or adult family members are admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
• Work to develop and maintain a collaborative relationship with the physicians and staff of local psychiatric inpatient unit(s) and other residential treatment facilities as needed.
• Coordinates all psychopharmacological interventions with family members.
• Keep notes on the MST-Psychiatric Psychiatric Consultation Worksheet so these can be included in the client’s chart.
• Work with the MST-Psychiatric supervisor to modify and implement safety protocols and documentation.
• Attends MST-Psychiatric group supervision weekly.
• Work with the MST-Psychiatric expert to develop and implement evidence-based psychiatric and psychopharmacologic treatment protocols.

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