Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner- Primary Care

Description

Great things happen for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners like yourself who seek to put clients first in an Integrated Primary Care Practice Environment. They find themselves at Maine Health, Maine's largest integrated health system.

We are seeking a part-time (32 hours/week) experienced PMHNP to join our Primary Care team in Sanford, Maine. There is flexibility in the location and the position could be based in Saco or Kennebunk as well. Join us, and you will find supportive, collaborative colleagues; strong patient/provider relationships; comprehensive resources and advanced technologies, including fully integrated Epic EMR. In this Primary Care practice, the clients' biopsychosocial information is added to one integrated medical record. This supports communication within the team and optimizes care.

This opportunity is ideal for someone interested in providing highly valued psychiatry services within a medical team, as well as the larger Behavioral Health Integration program where education, training, consultation and camaraderie are part of the job.

The MaineHealth Behavioral Health (MHBH) Integrated program is one of the largest in the nation, with approximately 40 clinicians providing care at over 50 primary care locations and almost 10 specialty offices throughout Maine.

Desired Qualifications & Experience:

• Certification by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a PMHNP

• Minimum of 2 years' experience as a PMHNP in an integrated setting

• Experience in a primary care or outpatient medical practice setting preferred

• Ability to attain (or be currently licensed as) an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse License in the State of Maine

• Integrated care for clients on a primary care team

• Psychiatric evaluations

• Medication management

• Consultation to the primary care team

Additional Information:

MaineHealth is a not-for-profit integrated health system whose vision is, "Working together so our communities are the healthiest in America." MaineHealth consists of nine local health systems, a comprehensive behavioral health care network, diagnostic services, home health agencies, and 1,700 employed clinicians working together through the MaineHealth Medical Group. With approximately 22,000 care team members, MaineHealth provides preventive care, diagnosis, and treatment to 1.1 million residents in Maine and New Hampshire.

MHBH, a MaineHealth member, is Northern New England's leading integrated behavioral healthcare system, serving predominantly southern, western, central, and Mid-Coast Maine. It is composed of southern Maine's only nonprofit psychiatric hospital, eight multidisciplinary outpatient clinics, crisis services, crisis stabilization units, partial hospital and intensive outpatient treatment, as well as four ACT teams. This fully integrated and growing system of behavioral healthcare makes it a regional and national model for treating people with serious mental health issues.

To learn more about our system, please visitwww.mainehealth.organd our benefits page.

Please contact Physician & APP Recruiter: Dave Somers atdavid.somers@mainehealth.org