About the Role
The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner provides direct clinical services for a variety of psychiatric conditions in an outpatient setting. This role involves evaluating patients, prescribing treatment, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure comprehensive mental health care.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate scheduled patients consistent with prevailing practices standards, including psychiatric history, medical history, social and family history, mental status exam, diagnosis, and treatment recommendation.
- Establish rapport with patients and their social systems to assist them in understanding and accepting treatment recommendations within a shared decision-making model.
- Prescribe and implement treatment consistent with diagnosis and relevant standards, including medication prescription within the ARNP’s scope of practice.
- Complete records accurately and in a timely fashion, generally the same day of service but no later than one week after seen.
- Code services consistent with ethical and legal billing standards.
- Strive to seek 80% productivity based upon CPT code time elements.
- Cooperate with other medical services around vacation coverage, including direct and medication refills.
- Collaborate with internal and external clinicians, administrative staff, and management staff to provide the best care to all clients/patients.
- Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Requirements
- Possess and maintain an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner licensure in state of practice.
- Proficient understanding of TMS treatment protocols.
- Ability to engage patients in therapy, or a willingness to learn.
- Ability to use electronic medical records.
- Willingness to work with patients with substance use disorders is preferred.
- Experience with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is preferred, or a willingness to learn.
- Must agree to and sign a pre-employment arbitration agreement.
Skills
- Able to build and establish trust and rapport with patients.
- Creates a relationship with patients by providing comfort and emotional support.
- Maintain confidentiality while communicating patient results, data, or plans.
- Ability to complete patient assessments accurately and thoroughly.
- Ensuring accurate diagnosis of clients, consistent with current DSM and ICD codes.
- Ability to generate knowledge from clinical education and practice to improve patient outcomes.
- Evaluate the impact and effectiveness of care on patients’ health.
- Evaluate patient response, then modify treatment plan as necessary.
- Willingness to follow through with ethical responsibilities to patient, including occasional engagement off hours to support necessary medication coverage.
Location
- Austin-Westlake
Work Type
- Part-time
- On-site
Experience Level
- Outpatient setting experience
- Experience with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) preferred
Education Level
- Master’s degree in Nursing, Health Care or other related field
- Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner licensure
Salary/Compensations
- $70.00 to $80.00 per hour
About the Company
- Anew Era TMS & Psychiatry offers customized, comprehensive care including in-person and online therapy, medication management, and advanced interventional treatments like TMS therapy, ketamine, and esketamine.
- We make quality mental health care more accessible by accepting most commercial insurance plans.
Equal Opportunity
- Discovery Behavioral Health seeks to build a diverse staff that is reflective of the patients we serve and the communities where we work.
- DBH encourages multiple perspectives, experiences, and strives to hire and retain a diverse workforce.
- We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V.
- We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
