Location: CHA Somerville Campus

Work Days: 36 hrs/wk, 3p-11:30p weekdays with E/O wknd 8a-8p

Category: Nurse Practitioner

Department: Child and Adolescent Psych Social Workers

Job Type: PT20+

Work Shift: 28 hrs/wk, 3p-11:30p weekdays with E/O wknd 8a-8p

Hours/Week: 28.00

Union: Yes

Union Name: MNA Somerville

Enhanced rates and competitive shift differential. Opportunity to earn time and a half.

CHA will add 42 new child, adolescent and specialized autism spectrum/neurodevelopmental beds at its Somerville Campus, bringing CHA's capacity to 69 youth beds. The new CHA Center of Excellence for Child and Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health Care at Somerville will provide a transformative continuum of patient- and family-centered care for diverse youth with mental health needs. The Center will also provide unique opportunities for training and research at CHA to identify when, where and how to positively impact trajectories of the Commonwealth's most vulnerable youth.

Under the general direction of the Medical Director, and within established hospital and departmental policies and procedures, the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner performs a variety of duties designed to meet the health care needs of individuals, families, and the community in general.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Perform admissions.

• Perform clinical assessments and evaluations.

• Plan, implement and revise treatment in consultation with multidisciplinary teams and with community agencies as appropriate.

• Completes patient chart documentation as required by all pertinent governing bodies in a timely manner.

• Demonstrates ability to manage emergency situations in a prompt, precise and professional manner.

• Demonstrates expertise in nonviolent crisis prevention and management.

• All responsibilities will be consistent with the scope of practice acts governing health care in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Qualifications:

• MSN credentialed as an advanced practice clinician in psychiatry

• Current Massachusetts licensure authorizing practice in an expanded role; eligible to prescribe.

• Massachusetts Registered Nurse (RN) licensure required

• American Heart Association BLS certification

• 1 year Nurse Practitioner inpatient or psychiatric emergency experience

KEYWORDS: Registered Nurse / RN / Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner / Inpatient / Diversity / Behavioral / Mental Health / Pediatric / MSN

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