Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Job Description 

Who We Are: Haelen Mental Health is a Nurse Practitioner led practice founded in  2021 with the mission to improve access to mental health care in the local community.   Our Nurse Practitioners focus on providing integrative psychiatric care and receive additional training in EMDR and the use of Spravato for treatment-resistant depression within our clinic. 

Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin

Why We Are Unique:

• We prioritize giving our Provider's sufficient time to get to know their patients.
• We enable our Providers to focus on clinical care. 
• Haelen Mental Health values connection, holistic and integrative psychiatric care approaches and providers who are life-long learners and interested to work within a collaborative group practice. 

Position Summary: The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) provides direct client care, including assessing, diagnosing, planning, and prescribing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of health problems, health promotion and preventive care within this specialized area of practice. The PMHNP is involved in practice activities with the goal of improving the quality of care in an outpatient setting.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Performs psychiatric diagnostic evaluations to determine diagnoses, treatment strategies, and care coordination needs for clients with mental health, substance use, or other psychiatric and medical needs.
• Provide all psychiatric and/or medical services within reasonable and expected medical standards, timelines, and in conformance with all requirements imposed by the applicable health licensing boards.
• Provide in person psychiatric evaluation at least 75% work hours and potential for 25% telehealth
• Willing to work with children and adolescents as well as adult populations
• Applies medical knowledge and skills to the process of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of illnesses.
• Maintain timely, complete, accurate and legible medical records for all patients evaluated and treated by the Nurse Practitioner. 
• Performs timely, concurrent, accurate clinical/billing documentation meeting professional standards in compliance with State and Federal regulations, clinical necessity, and appropriate coding standards.
• Performs pharmacologic treatment strategies, orders medications, monitors, and evaluates progress on psychiatric and/or other medications.
• Order, obtain and assess appropriate laboratory tests and diagnostics. Base clinical decisions on laboratory interpretation.
• Assures timely access to care, demonstrates flexibility in scheduling to fully meet client needs, and meets applicable productivity standards.
• The PMHNP will assume client care responsibilities inclusive of psychiatric evaluation, professional diagnoses and prescribing and/or administering treatment.
• Collaborates with PMHNP colleagues and/or collaborative physician for complex cases.  Elevates to higher levels of care when necessary.
• Completes medication and health education to include but not limited to informed consent, benefits, risks, side effects, and alternative treatments for medications ordered, health/wellness management, metabolic risk reduction strategies.
• Competent and comfortable with conducting Telemedicine technology appointments- both for intake and follow up encounters.
• Care coordination: Professional and timely communication/care coordination with client/families/involved agencies/ PCP/ and other specialty care providers to ensure timely and coordinated treatment planning and evaluation of patient progress.
• Remain in compliance with state laws and regulations for PMHNP, including meeting supervised hour requirements, CME, and completing appropriate assessments in timely manner with supervising physician.

 Other Duties:

• Attend weekly mandatory supervisory meeting with physician or as deemed appropriate by supervising PMHNP. 
• Assists as required by supervisor with other duties as assigned.

 Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters or doctorate degree from an accredited nursing school, required. Completion of an accredited Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, required.
• At least one year of experience as a PMHNP preferred.
• Current Licensed Practitioner with full and unrestricted licensure in the state of practice and active state DEA License required.
• Ability to apply for full APRN licensure in Wisconsin
• BLS from the American Heart Association required.
• Preferred candidates will have multi-state licensure for RN/APRN for Wisconsin/Minnesota/Iowa

Compensation and Benefits: 

Salary Range: $95,000-$135,000 dependent upon experience, additional certifications and training. 

As discussed by provider

Haelen Mental Health offers competitive compensation and benefits packages with the ability to also maintain work-life balance. Full time employees are eligible for medical insurance, paid time off, paid sick leave, continuing medical education and leave, 401K, group supervision and paid collaborative MD (if needed).

Haelen Mental Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.