ACT Psychiatrist / Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)

Location: St. Paul

Pay: Psychiatrist - $230 per hour / PMHNP - $120 per hour

We are committed to providing salary ranges for all open positions. Please note that the specific compensation for this role will be determined based on your experience, qualifications, location, and internal equity considerations.

Mental Health Resources, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We embrace diversity and inclusion and take a person-centered care approach to the population we serve. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Looking to make a difference in your community? Here is an exciting opportunity to support individuals recovering from mental illness. As a member of the multidisciplinary team, the psychiatrist/psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in conjunction with the team leader, has overall clinical responsibility for monitoring client treatment and staff delivery of clinical services. The psychiatrist/psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner provides psychiatric and medical assessment and treatment; clinical supervision, education, and training of the team; development, maintenance, and supervision of medication and psychiatric and medical treatment policies and procedures. This position has responsibility to carry out rehabilitation and support functions and assist in treatment; medication education, support, and consultation to families; and crisis intervention in consultation with the multidisciplinary team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct psychiatric assessments including psychiatric history, course of illness, response to treatment, mental status examination, diagnostic assessment and present assessment results at daily team meetings and treatment planning meetings.
• Provide diagnostic and medication education to clients, with medication decisions based on a shared decision-making paradigm.
• Provide psychopharmacologic treatment, including brief therapy, and prescribe psychotropic medications; conduct regular assessments of therapeutic responses and side effects.
• Monitor all clients’ non-psychiatric medical conditions and non-psychiatric medications.
• With other team members, provide support, education, and counseling to family members of clients to help them become knowledgeable about mental illness, collaborate in the treatment process, and assist in their family member’s progress.
• Provide on-site and telephone/telehealth crisis assessment and management of clients.
• Provide psychiatric back-up to the program after hours and weekends.
• Be actively involved in both acute and long-term psychiatric inpatient treatment of clients including initiation and facilitation of admission to the hospital; regular communication and consultation with the attending psychiatrist; frequent visits to clients in the hospital; and along with other team members, collaboration with the inpatient staff in the planning and implementation of treatment and discharge to the community.
• Submit written reports and oral testimony and presentation of opinion in commitment and other legal proceedings and in a wide range of treatment, rehabilitative, and support services matters (e.g. Social Security applications, prior authorization of medication, etc.).
• Continuously evaluate the status of clients and do appropriate planning and coordination of treatment activities to ensure immediate attention to their changing needs.
• Assess and monitor services rendered to clients.
• Assist the team leader in the administration of the clinical program and the clinical supervision of individual team members, providing input regarding the performance of individual staff in order to assist in employee performance reviews.
• Provide leadership and oversight in staff and team development.
• Train staff in the knowledge and skills basic to the treatment of serious and persistent mental illnesses.
• Collaborate with the team leader in sharing overall clinical responsibility for referral review and admission process, treatment, rehabilitation, and support services of the program.
• Actively collaborate with nurses on the team.
• Communicate openly, directly, and professionally with all team members.
• Initiate and maintain relationships, in coordination with other staff, with other service providers, with informal community resources, and with clients’ families.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Licensed as a mental health professional in the state of Minnesota
• Permitted to prescribe psychiatric medications as part of the mental health professional's scope of practice
• Strong clinical skills and experience providing treatment to persons with serious and persistent mental illnesses
• Must be knowledgeable about the ACT model
• Clinical supervisory experience is desirable