***This position is a Part-Time, hourly position, with a weekly average of 14 hours.***

Our Mission:

Since 1967, Odyssey House has gone beyond helping individuals beat drugs and alcohol. We help rebuild lives. There’s more to recovery than just getting clean. We help individuals get healthy again, too, with medical and dental care, fitness programs, support for your mental health and more. Individuals can stay with their children while in treatment, while learning new life skills, so they can stay together and repair other broken relationships in their lives. We provide educational and work skill trainings, outpatient services and available housing assistance, so individuals can step back into real life with a real future.

If that sounds different than other treatment programs, you’re right. Because Odyssey is where recovery gets real.

MAJOR FUNCTIONS:

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner performs psychiatric assessment, evaluation, psychiatric medication therapy, continuing evaluation, monitoring and symptom management for consumers according to medical necessity.

SPECIFIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct initial psychiatric assessment, evaluation and regular continuing care.
• Order medication for management of diagnosed psychiatric disorders.
• Provide medication evaluation and medication monitoring of consumers.
• Provide emergency psychiatric care when on-site as needed.
• Follow generally accepted standards of professional practice and medical ethics at all times.
• Ensure maintenance of accurate, legible and timely documentation in electronic health record; documents care as it is provided.
• Orders labs for blood level monitoring of psychiatric medications as needed.
• Communicate regularly with psychosocial and primary healthcare staff regarding special needs for individual residents.
• Attend regularly scheduled staff meetings and case conferences.
• Attend all required in-service training seminars.
• Participate in quality improvement activities.
• Other relevant duties as required.

REQUIREMENTS: EDUCATION/TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge of Federal and State regulations regarding healthcare in an ambulatory setting.
• Familiar with etiology of substance abuse and treatment of co-occurring disorders.
• In good standing with New York State Department of Education Professional Licensing Boards and without any outstanding malpractice judgments.
• Holds a federal DATA X waiver (buprenorphine-certified).
• 1-2 years of professional experience prescribing buprenorphine preferred.
• Skilled in the medical management of mental illness.
• Advanced Practice Nursing Degree from an accredited College or University.
• Current license as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of New York.
• Board certified preferred.
• Able to use electronic health record to document services provided.
• This position will require availability as needed including on call responsibilities.

Odyssey House is an equal opportunity employer maintaining a non-discriminatory policy on hiring of its personnel. Odyssey House, and its operational divisions, will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or citizen status in all employment decisions including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, training, rate of pay or other forms of compensation, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.