At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.
Reasons you’ll love working with us:
- If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
- We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.
- With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.
- Generous vacation time and paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
- We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
- You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.
How you can make a bigger difference:
The psychiatric nurse practitioner (NPP) is responsible for providing psychiatric services and care to the agency’s children and adult population in community clinic practices, including clinical diagnosis, prognosis, medication management, and discharge planning. The NPP functions as an integral part of the interdisciplinary team environment approach of the Agency.
Some responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Provide psychiatric assessment, clarification of clinical diagnosis, recommend treatment options and provide client
- education on mental health issues and strategies for recovery and review patient’s progress and recommend
- discharge and aftercare planning.
- Attend and provide feedback in case conferences.
- Prescribe psychotropic medication as appropriate for client care.
- Collaborate with other appropriate staff, i.e., caseworkers, milieu staff, psychologists, nurses relative to individual, group and family therapy.
- Assist with urgent crisis situations by conducting evaluations, interventions, and/or consultation to the clinical team.
- Provides telephone consultation about four times a month in response to unscheduled clinical issues which initially
- screened by the full time clinical team
TO QUALIFY:
- Family systems therapy.
- Strong knowledge of Child development, working knowledge regarding the understanding of culture and strengths of families.
- Experience with families in Child Welfare system.
- Familiar with Evidence Based and Practicing Promise Models.
- Able to work as a team member. Management of suicidal or homicidal threats and family safety and risk.
EDUCATION / TRAINING PREFERRED:
- MUST hold a degree in Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and be Board Eligible.
- Training/and experience with child and adolescent psychiatry is preferred.
- Must be able to work as a team member with complex cases
If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:
- Generous paid time off in addition to agency holidays and 15 sick days
- Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
- Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
- Free continuing education opportunities
- 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
- Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
- 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
- Life and disability insurance
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee
Who we are:
The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.
More on Equal Opportunity:
We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.
