CBHC Nurse Practitioner
Company: Eliot's
Location: Lynn
Posted on: January 23, 2023
Job Description:
Eliot is excited to participate in the transformation of
community behavioral health programs and stands ready for the
challenge. We not only believe that high-quality services must be
provided when and where people need them but we have a proven track
record of doing so. We are devoted to creating and supporting
services that remove barriers to services in the community, rather
than in emergency rooms and institutional settings.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the prescriber for clients/families served by the team
in the relevant service element including CBHC Teams, Urgent Care,
YCCS, or CCS services.
- Conduct comprehensive assessment and prescribe psychotropic
medications and monitor therapeutic effectiveness and side effects
of medications as appropriate.
- Provide education to clients/families on all aspects of their
medications or of their child's medications. Obtain informed
consent. Order and monitor required lab work per protocol.
- Provide medical assessment and monitoring (including lab
monitoring as necessary) within the scope of practice, for clients
having difficulty participating in routine medical care or
monitoring of medical conditions with service element including
CBHC Teams, Urgent Care, YCCS, or CCS services.
- Provide education regarding conditions, symptoms, risks,
complications, and benefits of treatment participation regarding
medical conditions as indicated.
- Provide education regarding conditions, symptoms, risks,
complications, and benefits of treatment participation regarding
medical conditions as indicated.
- Order and monitor blood chemistry profiles as indicated.
Provide education regarding conditions, symptoms, risks,
complications, and benefits of treatment participation regarding
medical conditions as indicated.
- Participate in intakes, assessments, and referrals process
where appropriate and relevant within CBHC Teams, Urgent Care,
YCCS, or CCS services.
- Support CBHC Teams, Urgent Care, YCCS, or CCS services in
pursuit of services that are culturally competent, strengths based,
recovery based, focused on rehabilitation and are inclusive of
consumer preferences.
Qualifications:
- Holds a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from an accredited
university/college and is currently licensed by the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing to practice as a
licensed Nurse Practitioner and is registered to practice as a
Nurse Practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing
Center.
- Maintains a valid registration(s) to issue written oral
prescriptions or medication orders for controlled substances from
the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the United States
Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration. Maintains
current malpractice/liability insurance.
- Experience in acute psychiatric care required.
- Meets third party and Department of Public Health clinic
regulations for reimbursability. Computer literacy and skill in the
use of computers and related software applications.
Schedule: Monday - Friday
Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that
prevent people with marginalizedracial identities from actualizing
their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, orfrom
fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.
*Eliot mandatesCOVID-19vaccinationsforemployees, please discuss the
requirements with the hiring manager during the interview
process.
Keywords: Eliot's, Lynn , CBHC Nurse Practitioner, Healthcare , Lynn, Massachusetts
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