Contracted Psychiatric Prescriber

Northeast Youth and Family Services Outpatient Mental Health Clinic is currently seeking a community-focused Psychiatrist or Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our team. To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to HumanResources@nyfs.org

The Psychiatrist and or Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will work with youth and adolescent clients at NYFS outpatient clinic, a mission-driven non-profit organization that provides clinical care for adult clients throughout the lifespan. Northeast Youth & Family Services (NYFS) is a mental health and social services agency serving people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds in the Twin Cities Northeast Suburbs. Our mission is to transform lives by ensuring access to care that nurtures healing, cultivates community, and inspires hope. We are grounded in our core values: Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging; Authenticity, Community Driven, Integrity, Transformative Relationships, Innovations, and Wellbeing. NYFS offers competitive pay, a supportive work environment, and opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities:

• Provides a full range of psychiatric care in a primarily youth and adolescent, outpatient community mental health setting including diagnosis and assessment, consultation, medication prescription and education.

• Committed to working in a culturally responsive, trauma-responsive, community-based, and developmentally appropriate care.

• Committed to an integrated model of care within a multi-professional and collaborative clinic.

• Attends monthly meetings with clinical staff and trainees in a case-consultation format

• Maintains current documentation/orders in electronic notes and provides reports as required

• Provides concurrent billing information for client-based care

• Engages in collaborative community care, engages in outreach, and works with other agencies in support of the holistic health needs psychiatry patients

Required Qualifications:

• Possession of a nurse practitioner license for psychiatry

• Experience as a nurse practitioner in a mental health setting

• Must have or be able to obtain an unrestricted Minnesota Nurse Practitioner License

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of psychiatry

• Knowledge of current theories and practices in the field of mental health especially psychotherapy and relational models of care

• Knowledge of medications and their effects on physical and psychological disorders

• Knowledge of the organization and operation of a nonprofit community mental health clinic

• Knowledge of research methods and techniques

• Ability to diagnose and treat mental illness in relation to physical conditions

• Effectively support adults with serious and persistent mental health concerns

• Ability to prescribe appropriate medications for the treatment of psychiatric disorders

• Ability to engage effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team

• Ability to prepare and review diagnostic reports

• Ability to maintain electronic health records, prepare reports and correspondence

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

• Experience working in Minnesota

• Previous psychotherapy training and experience

• Chemical dependency/substance use disorder experience

• Fluency in other languages a plus, but not required

Timeframe: Position is to start in July 2024.

Minimum of 8 hours per month up to 8 hours per week

Strong candidates will have a solid understanding of their own culture and practice sensitivity and respect to the cultural backgrounds of clients as well as other staff. NYFS welcomes clients as well as staff with diverse cultural/ethnic identities, sexual orientations, gender identities, disabilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Agency Overview:

Northeast Youth and Family Services (NYFS) is a community-based nonprofit founded in 1976 serving Northeast Ramsey County. NYFS provides trauma and culturally responsive clinic-based, and school based mental health services, domestic and sexual violence services, and community-based services including diversion programming, youth development programming, and community advocacy with offices in Shoreview and White Bear Lake. We have long-standing partnerships with 15 municipalities in Ramsey County; NYFS’ services are genuinely community-driven.

Who We Are:

NYFS lives its deep values around providing integrative care for the whole family with a focus on youth, young adults, and their caregivers. Staff are dedicated, innovative, and mission-driven, offering authentic, relational, client-centered care. The team is playful, creative, growth-oriented, down-to-earth, and hardworking – and we laugh a lot! We are committed to genuine integration of trauma and culturally responsive care across the agency. As a trauma-responsive organization, NYFS is actively invested in organizational supports for staff wellness and work sustainability. We believe in a family-first work environment, rather than seeking work/life balance.

We are committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity in recruitment, hiring, training, and promotion of persons based on merit, qualifications, and competence. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, place of residence, political affiliation, veterans’ status, or status with regard to public assistance, or any other class protected by local, state, or federal law. NYFS provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.