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About the Role
This is an exceptional full-time opportunity for clinicians passionate about serving an often-overlooked patient population while building a rewarding long-term career in geriatric behavioral health. This position offers the autonomy, professional support, and clinical resources needed to succeed in providing on-site psychiatric care within skilled nursing facilities.
Responsibilities
- Complete comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, behavioral health consultations, and diagnostic assessments for adult and geriatric residents.
- Establish psychiatric diagnoses and formulate evidence-based treatment plans tailored to each resident's behavioral, emotional, medical, cognitive, and psychosocial needs.
- Provide ongoing psychopharmacology management, including initiating, adjusting, monitoring, and optimizing psychiatric medications.
- Evaluate behavioral disturbances associated with dementia, depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, sleep disorders, personality disorders, adjustment disorders, and chronic mental illness.
- Assess residents experiencing cognitive decline, mood instability, agitation, aggression, hallucinations, or other neuropsychiatric symptoms.
- Collaborate with attending physicians, nursing staff, therapists, rehabilitation professionals, social workers, case managers, and facility leadership to coordinate comprehensive behavioral healthcare.
- Participate in interdisciplinary treatment planning and provide recommendations that improve resident outcomes while promoting behavioral stability.
- Educate residents, family members, guardians, and facility staff regarding psychiatric diagnoses, medication management, behavioral interventions, and realistic treatment expectations.
- Identify opportunities for early psychiatric intervention that help reduce unnecessary emergency department visits, psychiatric admissions, and avoidable hospital transfers.
- Maintain timely, organized, and compliant documentation consistent with state, federal, facility, and organizational standards.
- Promote a compassionate, resident-centered approach that emphasizes dignity, respect, safety, and continuity of psychiatric care.
Requirements
- Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) or Physician Assistant with significant psychiatric experience.
- Active and unrestricted New York license.
- DEA registration or ability to obtain.
- Strong knowledge of psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, psychopharmacology, and treatment planning.
- Ability to independently manage a psychiatric caseload while collaborating effectively with interdisciplinary healthcare teams.
- Previous experience in psychiatry, behavioral health, skilled nursing, long-term care, rehabilitation, geriatrics, or post-acute care preferred.
- Experience managing dementia-related behaviors, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosis, chronic psychiatric illness, and medically complex patients preferred.
- Excellent communication, organizational, clinical reasoning, and relationship-building skills.
- Genuine passion for serving elderly and underserved patient populations.
Skills
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Behavioral health consultation
- Diagnostic assessment
- Psychiatric diagnosis
- Evidence-based treatment planning
- Psychopharmacology management
- Dementia care
- Mood disorder management
- Anxiety disorder management
- Psychosis management
- Chronic mental illness management
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Clinical documentation
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Clinical reasoning
- Relationship-building
Location
- Columbia County, New York
- Ulster County, New York
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-site
Experience Level
- Senior clinician
- Experienced provider
Education Level
- Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC)
- Physician Assistant with psychiatric experience
Salary/Compensations
- Strong compensation package with excellent income potential
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with strong earning potential
- Industry-leading clinical training and continuing education
- Ongoing mentorship from experienced psychiatric providers
- Comprehensive administrative and operational support
- Malpractice insurance coverage
- Opportunities to increase clinical responsibilities as the organization grows
- Long-term advancement within a rapidly expanding behavioral health organization
About the Company
- Expanding behavioral health services organization committed to developing its providers.
- Focuses on serving an underserved geriatric population.
- Provides autonomy, professional support, and clinical resources.
- Believes exceptional providers deserve exceptional support.
- Committed to helping clinicians grow both professionally and clinically through structured mentorship, advanced psychiatric education, ongoing case collaboration, and access to experienced behavioral health leadership.