Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
About The Position
This part-time position is divided between a residential treatment center in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and an outpatient foster care clinic in Bronx or Harlem, NY. The role involves conducting comprehensive, trauma-focused psychiatric assessments of children and adolescents, developing individualized treatment plans, and providing ongoing psychiatric care, including medication management. The practitioner will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, support caregivers, and participate in crisis intervention and on-call coverage. The position emphasizes a strengths-based, culturally responsive, and family-centered approach to care.
Requirements
- Medical licensure in New York State.
- Previous training and experience providing psychiatric treatment to children and adolescents.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive, trauma-focused psychiatric assessments of children and adolescents, incorporating developmental, psychosocial, and family system perspectives.
- Develop clear clinical formulations that integrate trauma history, attachment patterns, environmental stressors, and psychiatric presentation.
- Create individualized, evidence-based treatment plans that may include psychotherapy recommendations, psychopharmacology, and supportive interventions.
- Communicate assessment findings and treatment plans effectively to children, caregivers, and the broader clinical team in a developmentally appropriate and accessible manner.
- Provide ongoing psychiatric care, including medication management when indicated, with follow-up appointments at a minimum of once per month or more frequently based on clinical need.
- Collaborate with caseworkers, therapists, psychologists, and other agency staff to ensure coordinated, trauma-informed care.
- Participate in case conferences, team meetings, and treatment planning discussions.
- Maintain timely, accurate, and compliant clinical documentation in accordance with agency, state, and federal regulations.
- Support caregivers in understanding diagnoses, treatment approaches, and behavioral strategies.
- Promote a strengths-based, culturally responsive, and family-centered approach to care.
- In crisis treatment situations, ascertains whether or not a child needs psychiatric hospitalization or other type of special psychiatric treatment and coordinates such special treatment plan with the community hospital or agency.
- Provides on-call coverage for after hours via telephone on a rotating schedule with other psychiatry providers in department.
- Meets with Chief Psychiatrist and/or Medical Director on a regularly scheduled basis for supervision.
- Meets on a regularly scheduled basis with other Psychiatrists to for case discussions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
