Legacy Health Hiring for Nurse Practitioner – Psychiatric at United States Full Time

If you share Legacy’s mission of making life better for others, we invite you to consider this opportunity as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Your ability to assess, diagnose and make recommendations for Legacy’s primary care clinic patients, and will ensure that proper care and support is provided. Throughout your work in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary primary care teams, you’ll lend compassion and thoughtful insights in the treatment of complex psychiatric patients and their families.

Responsibilities:

Provide psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations, for patients in primary care clinics who have psychiatric or behavioral health comorbidities. This position can be 100% virtual or partially in a clinic (various opportunities in multiple LMG locations).

The psychiatric nurse practitioner will conduct an examination and order relevant laboratory studies to help determine a diagnosis to make treatment recommendations to the patient and primary care provider. The treatment recommendations might include biological as well as psychotherapeutic modalities and will also include a recommendation for an appropriate setting for the delivery of this care.

When appropriate, the psychiatric nurse practitioner will initiate treatment and continue to monitor the patient’s progress until stabilization. Once stabilized the patient may continue to follow-up with the psychiatric nurse practitioner or may be referred to the primary care provider. The psychiatric nurse practitioner will work in collaboration with multidisciplinary primary care teams to ensure high quality patient care. Provide support and educational training for physicians and non-physician staff in providing care for complex psychiatric patients and their families.

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner remains responsible for the patient throughout the course of the treatment and will determine when the patient will be released from care

Qualifications:

Licensure:

• Applicable state RN license required.

• National Certification as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) required.

• Current applicable state license as a Nurse Practitioner with Prescriptive Privileges (NP-PP) required.

• Possess a national Nursing certification allowing billing for Medicare.

• Current BLS certification from the American Heart Association.

Legacy’s Values in Action – Follows guidelines set forth in Legacy’s Values in Action.

For additional information, please contact Erin Pendergraft via email: [email protected] or cell/text: (503) 504-7505.

Posting Title: Nurse Practitioner – Psychiatric

Job Req #: 22-24607

Name: LMG Behavioral Health

Budgeted Hours Per Week: 32

FTE for each opening (not total FTE across all openings for multiple openings). If less than 1.0 please enter leading 0 before the decimal, e.g. 0.2: 0.80

Job_Commensurate with Experience: Commensurate with Experience

FLSA Status: Exempt

Bonus/Relocation: Bonus/Relocation

Union: Non-union

Work Days: Mon-Fri, no weekends

External Company Name: Legacy Health

External Company URL: https://www.legacyhealth.org/