Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

About Us

We are a psychiatric healthcare system, dedicated to providing mental healthcare for all, with seven locations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, and two additional sites located in Rochester and Mankato. With a robust benefits package, career advancement opportunities, and great workplace culture, we value our employees and the work they do each day for our patients and families. Our services span the full continuum of care for patients, with a variety of roles and opportunities for job-seekers looking for more than a job, but a place where you can grow in your career.

Responsibilities

Provides comprehensive, direct services to adult, adolescent, and child psychiatric and chemical dependency patients and their families including assessment of physical and psychiatric functioning and pharmacological interventions in outpatient setting.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Provides diagnostic interviews as well as individual, family, and group therapy services to patients and their families

• Have expertise in clinical psychopharmacology for children, teens, and adult

• Oriented and educated in gender, cultural differences, and age appropriate care for the assigned department

• This is an in-person position

Qualifications

• Requires Master's degree in nursing or DNP or PA in Psychiatry. Licensure as CNP with prescriptive authority required. Will also accept certified MN PA license

• 3-5 years practice experience as a PMHNP or PA within an Inpatient setting

• Computer skills with Microsoft Office Products including Outlook and Word required

• Ability to clearly summarize pertinent clinical information via written correspondence and medical records documentation

• Strong skills in case management, time management, written and oral communications

• Maintain information as highly confidential

• Demonstrate the ability to treat all age populations consistent with licensure or have the capacity to develop these skills

• Must have ability to manage a variety of clinical obligations in timely manner

• Ability to smoothly and rapidly shift between dissimilar tasks

• Able to react quickly and calmly as part of a team to handle volatile and potentially emergency situations, make effective decisions while in stressful situations and circumstances, and after training, be able to manage disruptive and explosive patients

• Current licensure in State of Minnesota as an APRN with PMHNP certification, or Physician Assistant

• DEA license

PrairieCare is a psychiatric healthcare system experiencing rapid growth in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota. With multiple sites across the metro, including locations in Rochester and Mankato, PrairieCare has quickly grown to become one of Minnesota's largest providers of mental health services to children, adolescents, adults, and their families.

PrairieCare does not discriminate against any person based on race, color, national origin, disability, or age in admissions, treatment, or participation in its programs, services, activities, or employment. PrairieCare is an Affirmative Action Employer/Equal Opportunity Employer supporting Veterans, Disabled, and other protected individuals and is committed to a diverse workforce.

PrairieCare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email hr@prairie-care.com for assistance.

Offers of employment from PrairieCare are conditional and contingent upon successful clearance of all background studies.#indjobs

Additional Details

Excellent Opportunity for a Psychiatric NP to provide full time services at Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital (Child & Adolescents and Young Adults).