Crisis Center Nurse Practitioner - Per Diem (26-68)

Kent County CMH Authority•Grand Rapids, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Network180 is the behavioral health community organization responsible for the delivery of mental health, substance abuse treatment coordination, and developmental disabilities services for Kent County. We are seeking a Crisis Center Nurse Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team. This role provides psychiatric evaluations and short-term medication management for patients presenting to the 24-hour Crisis Center, which includes a Brief Intervention Clinic and a Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU), in consultation with a collaborative Psychiatrist. The Crisis Center serves adults 18 years and older, providing assessment and unscheduled clinical services designed to prevent or resolve mental health or substance-related crises. The goal is to provide services to individuals whose crisis will typically resolve within a few hours, but may require up to seventy-two (72) hours of treatment, and where services can be voluntary or involuntary. The CSU aims to divert individuals from jail, emergency departments, and inpatient psychiatric hospital settings to an appropriate least restrictive treatment setting whenever safely and successfully achievable.

Requirements

Licensed in the State of Michigan as a Registered Nurse with a NP Nurse Specialty Certification.
Ability to be paneled by all insurance carriers.
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Master’s Degree minimum) with an active, unencumbered license.
At least one year of experience as a practicing Registered Nurse providing psychiatry care.
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
Excellent interpersonal and human relations skills.
Possession of a valid driver’s license and access to reliable transportation for job related use.
Ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment and skills and capabilities of bridging language/cultural barriers to Network180 services within diverse communities.
Ability to adhere to Network180 policies resulting from HIPAA privacy rules regarding individually identifiable health information concerning individuals served or employed by Network180 and credentialing.

Nice To Haves

Lived experiences with mental illness/developmental disabilities/substance use disorders valued.

Responsibilities

Provides psychiatric evaluations for patients who present to the 24-hour Crisis Center.
Provides short-term medication management for patients who present to the 24-hour Crisis Center.
Consults with a collaborative Psychiatrist.
Conducts assessments and provides unscheduled clinical services designed to prevent or resolve mental health or substance-related crises.
Provides treatment that may require up to seventy-two (72) hours.
Works to divert individuals from jail, emergency departments, and inpatient psychiatric hospital settings to an appropriate least restrictive treatment setting.