Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
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The Children's Village is hiring a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. The Children’s Village seeks a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to provide trauma‑focused psychiatric assessments, develop treatment plans, manage medication, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across residential and outpatient settings in Dobbs Ferry and the Bronx/Harlem.
Key focus areas include Conduct comprehensive trauma‑focused psychiatric assessments of children and adolescents, Develop clinical formulations integrating trauma history and psychiatric presentation, and Create individualized evidence‑based treatment plans including psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.
Important skills include Trauma-Focused Psychiatric Assessment, Psychopharmacology Knowledge, Psychotherapy Recommendations, Medication Management, Clinical Documentation, and Collaboration With Multidisciplinary Team.
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Full Time
Dobbs Ferry, NY, US
New York, NY, US
Salary: $221,676.00 Annually
Position Specific Duties/Responsibilities Assigned Responsibilities
Full-time position will be divided between two locations: residential treatment center in Dobbs Ferry, NY and outpatient foster care clinic in Bronx or Harlem, NY. 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.
Position Qualifications:
Medical licensure in New York State. Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner: must have previous training and experience providing psychiatric treatment to children and adolescents
The Children’s Village does not discriminate against any employee, prospective employee or contractor because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic predisposition, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction history or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.
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