Nurse Practitioner in Charge at McLean Hospital(MCL) in Middleborough, Massachusetts

Job Description:

McLean Hospital is a comprehensive psychiatric hospital committed to providing access to superior quality, cost-effective mental health services in the Boston area, Massachusetts and beyond. Since 1811, McLean Hospital has been a world leader in the treatment of mental illness and substance use disorders, research into the cause of mental illness and the training of generations of mental health care providers. McLean's multidisciplinary programs treat a broad range of psychiatric illnesses across the full continuum of care.


The Nurse Practitioner in Charge provides and oversees day-to-day clinical services of the inpatient team on a unit caring for adult patients.


PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Unit.


• Leads the multidisciplinary clinical team
• Provides clinical services to assigned patients every business day
• Documents each clinical visit in the medical record on the day of service, completes treatment plans, and completes discharge summaries.
• Participates in team rounds and other clinical meetings, and helps coordinate all treatment and discharge planning
• Oversees appropriate medical care
• Meets with families for clinical discussions as needed
• Communicates with referring sources, primary care physicians, and other community providers
• Attends program and hospital administrative meetings
• Complies with all hospital clinical and administrative policies
• Participates in utilization management, risk management, and quality assurance activities
• Participates in appropriate standing hospital committees
• Provides supervision of medical trainees, nursing trainees, and others as appropriate
• Facilitates integration of program services with other clinical programs and non-clinical departments in conjunction with other program leadership
• Facilitates the integration of clinical services with research
• Will attend supervision by supervising provider


All McLean team members are expected to consistently demonstrate our values of integrity, compassion, respect, diversity, teamwork, excellence and innovation in their work activities and interactions.



Qualifications

Education: Master's Degree in Nursing from an accredited graduate school.


Experience: Clinical experience in the treatment of acute psychiatric illness in inpatient settings preferred


License/Certification: Board certification in psychiatric/mental health advanced practice nursing (CNS or NP)


A current, active, unrestricted licensure as a Massachusetts CNS or NP with prescriptive authority


All employees must possess basic computer skills to use a variety of electronic or online systems for communication, clinical and administrative purposes


Required to complete electronic medical records training, and demonstrate 80% accuracy on competency test within 30 days of hire.



EEO Statement

It is the policy of McLean Hospital to affirmatively provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for employment and existing employees without regard to their race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, ancestry, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or a condition related to pregnancy including, but not limited to, lactation or the need to express breast milk for a nursing child, or any other basis that would be in violation of any applicable law or regulation.