Primary Care Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Southwest Care Center is seeking a full-time Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) to join their team in Santa Fe, NM. This role involves providing comprehensive psychiatric care to underserved communities, including evaluations, diagnoses, treatment planning, and medication management. The center is a non-profit, FQHC-LAL offering a wide range of medical and behavioral health services.

Practice Info

• Non-profit, FQHC-LAL providing medical, behavioral health, case management, community outreach, diabetes education, and pharmacy services.
• Offers gender equity medicine, syringe exchange, and HIV/Hep C treatment, testing, and other services.
• Onsite care team includes Physicians, NPs, Physician Assistant, Clinical Pharmacists, Behavioral Health Clinicians, Case Managers, RNs and RN Clinic Managers, Medical Assistants, Pharmacists, Health Educators, and Registered Dietician.
• System-wide Athena EMR.
• Telehealth visits available through Mend platform.

Responsibilities

• Perform a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, including patient mental status, current and past histories of violence and self harm behavior, substance use, level of functioning, health behaviors, trauma, medical and social history, and family history.
• Analyze and interpret history, including presenting symptoms, physical findings, as well as assessment of the impact on acute, chronic physical illness, stressors in family system, social economic stressors, and family psychopathology.
• Develop appropriate differential diagnoses, which may include ordering and interpreting laboratory tests, identifying typical and atypical presentation of psychiatric disorders, differentiating psychiatric presentations of medical conditions and arranging for consultation evaluation and follow up as needed.
• Accurately diagnose commonly occurring psychiatric disorders, as well as exacerbation and reoccurrences of chronic disorders and symptoms of a new emerging disorder.
• Evaluate potential abuse, neglect, and risk of danger to self or others, and assist patient and family in securing appropriate treatment environment to ensure safety.
• Develop treatment plans for psychiatric disorders based on practice guidelines and evidence based standards of care, including treatment of acute and chronic psychiatric and mental health issues.
• Prescribe psychotropic and related medications based on clinical indicators including diagnosis, lab tests, and patient status, to treat symptoms of the disorder and improve functioning and quality of life, ensuring patient safety through appropriate prescription management.
• Maintain up-to-date individual charts on patients in adherence to governing agencies and SCC policies.

Compensation

• Competitive salary with bonus available.
• Relocation also available.
• Tuition reimbursement availability through SCC and NHSC Loan Repayment Program.

Benefits

• Great work/life balance with generous time off plans.
• Full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k with substantial employer contribution, paid time off, professional development programs, and 340B prescription access.

Shift & Schedule

• Monday - Friday 8-5 typical schedule with 32 hours of scheduled patient care and 8 hours of administrative time per week.
• 40 Scheduled Weekly Hours.

Requirements

• Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with 3+ years working in behavioral health or psychiatric treatment environment preferred.
• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish highly preferred.
• Must have and maintain a current Controlled Substance Registration Certificate from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and from the State of New Mexico.
• Must have and maintain a current nurse practitioner license awarded from the State of New Mexico.
• Basic Life Support (BLS).
• Must have valid NM driver's license and reliable personal transportation.