Job Title: Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Company Profile:

When you join the growing South Cove team, you are not just taking a job; you are making a difference in people’s lives.

South Cove Community Health Center is looking for a candidate who can speak Mandarin OR Cantonese. South Cove is the premier Asian primary health care provider in the Greater Boston area. We have been providing value-based health care to the Boston Chinatown’s community for over 50 years and have expanded our delivery of care into the cities of Quincy and Malden. We now offer many services including medical, dental, optometry, obstetrics and gynecology, behavioral health, imaging, and many other services.

Location: Boston and Quincy

Available Shifts:

Monday to Friday, 40 hours/week

Benefits:

Health insurance

401K and Profit Sharing Retirement Plan

Long-term and short-term disability

Group term life insurance

Paid Time off

Holiday

Medical Care spending account and Dependent Care spending

In-house health services discount for staff and immediate family members

Essential Functions and Job Duties:

· To provide psychopharmacological treatment to patients under supervision from a psychiatrist.

· Formulates independent psychosocial diagnosis and carries out highly skilled clinical treatments with a wide variety of patients using a flexible array of treatment techniques.

· Offers skilled clinical consultation to community care-taking agencies, helping these agencies respond in the most therapeutic manner to their clientele; interprets the social, emotional, and economic aspects of community situations for total integrated case planning.

· Performs intakes for potential cases.

· Serve as clinician-on-duty on a rotational basis.

· Performs at a highly skilled clinical level in crisis intervention.

· Contributes to clinical interdisciplinary training seminars.

· Participates in regular team meetings.

· Participates in professional continuing education program.

· Supervision received under the supervision of Behavioral Health Clinical Supervisor.

· Supervision exercised over interns and graduate students.

Qualifications:

· Bilingual in Chinese (Mandarin OR Cantonese)

· Thorough knowledge of human growth and development

· Knowledge of the social, emotional, and experiential causes of social dysfunctions

· Knowledge of the principles and practices of DSM-5

· Knowledge of the casework treatment process and interviewing techniques

· Knowledge of community resources as related to implementing treatment plans

· Knowledge of special treatment modalities, including family and group therapy

· Knowledge of the methods and techniques of clinical social work

· Ability to conceptualize and independently implement treatment plans as they develop from full psychosocial diagnoses

· Effectively formulate psychosocial diagnoses

· Ability to establish and sustain therapeutic relationships

· Ability to independently evaluate crisis situations and to respond with appropriate social work therapeutic intervention

· Ability to work collaboratively with other mental health/health disciplines

· Ability to interpret and coordinate treatment plans among a variety of human services personnel

· Ability to provide community mental health/social services consultation to community agencies

Education & Experience:

· Registered nurse practitioner, licensed by Massachusetts. Graduate of an accredited nursing program.

· One to three years of nursing experience in an outpatient environment. Bilingual in Asian

· Languages strongly preferred (Cantonese, Mandarin, and/or Vietnamese)

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program

Medical Specialty:

• Psychiatry

Supplemental Pay:

• Overtime pay

Work Location: In person