Remote Crisis Care Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)

The role

You will provide fully virtual behavioral health care for people in crisis. Your work includes clinical assessments, diagnosis, treatment plans, risk assessment, safety planning and medication management, with a caseload you follow for 8 to 12 weeks.

What you will do

• Perform comprehensive clinical assessments and develop differential diagnosis
• Provide psychiatric medication management
• Build therapeutic alliance with patients
• Create and implement co-created personalized treatment plans with the multidisciplinary team
• Manage a caseload of patients followed for 8 to 12 weeks
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessment and safety planning
• Use validated clinical tools to aid differential diagnosis
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings
• Maintain documentation of all patient-related care
• Engage with clinical supervision

Required qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (or equivalent non-U.S. degree)
• Board Certification
• Master of Science in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice degree (or equivalent non-U.S. degree)
• Active license to practice in North Carolina
• Maintain state and continuing education requirements for behavioral health care
• Experience with clinical assessments, differential diagnosis, treatment plans and psychiatric medication management
• At least 3 years of clinical experience in psychiatric medication management
• Experience with clinical risk management, suicide risk assessment and safety planning
• Experience with and comfort using validated clinical tools
• Experience with and comfort using technology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a multidisciplinary clinical team

Nice to have

• Post-degree experience providing emergency mental health services and/or urgent behavioral healthcare
• Completed psychiatric fellowship
• Comprehensive knowledge of substance abuse, mental health and recovery issues and principles
• Experience using clinical outcomes to enhance clinical care
• Experience launching and iterating on a clinical care model
• Experience in a start-up healthcare setting and/or innovative healthcare program

Benefits

• PTO including sick leave, certain federal holidays and vacation
• Continuing education time and stipend
• 401K
• Health insurance
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Clinical supervision
• Multidisciplinary team collaboration

Before you apply

• Requires an active North Carolina license to practice
• Hiring process includes a clinical skill assessment with the hiring manager, a reference check and a background check

About the company

Willow Health offers virtual crisis care for people experiencing behavioral health crises, including psychotherapy, medication management, peer coaching and around-the-clock crisis coverage.