Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

AWARE is looking for the right person to join the Psychiatric team as the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.

If you embrace new ideas with a heart full of energy, we invite you to join a caring, compassionate, and fully engaged team that isn’t afraid to get vulnerable with one another. We have gritty, but respectful conversations that drive the needle forward on what it means to provide the highest quality of care for our clients.

At AWARE, our strength lies in our culture of care. AWARE’s Unconditional Care Principles inspire the services we provide to each person who comes to us for care and these principles lead how we treat ourselves and our clients; with hope, compassion and focus on the next right step.

When you join the AWARE team, you will become part of an organization that has a rich history (over 45 years!) helping Montanans with mental health and/or developmental disabilities. AWARE strives to provide the highest quality of care, every single day. When you join the AWARE team, you will be joining a team that believes that building on strengths is the key to success, that prides itself in taking on and sticking with the hardest challenges, believes we are agents of change, that everything is normal until proven otherwise, and that families are our most important resource.

Working for our organization means that regardless of your role, we’ll support you so you can support others. AWARE seeks to provide opportunities for employees to grow professionally through its tuition advancement program, professional development opportunities and in-house trainings.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and guidance to program staff, community-based and residential settings, concerning the care of clients.
• Perform psychiatric evaluations.
• Contributing to team development of patient care plans.
• Obtain indicated diagnostic tests, prescribe medications, treatments and provide ongoing psychiatric care.

Required Skills, Abilities & Education:

• Master's or Doctorate degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• Must have APRN licensure in the state where employed or a compact party state and be board certified or board-eligible by either
• ANCC or AANP.
• Must have prescriptive authorization.
• Knowledge of computer-based data management programs and information systems, as well as medical records and point-of-
• interview technology; readiness to learn and adapt to new technology as it is adopted by AWARE, and to provide input to the
• selection and implementation of such technology.
• Ability to communicate effectively, in verbal and written form, with partners at various levels: patients, family members,
• physicians, members of the treatment team, and representatives of the community.
• Sound understanding of all federal and state regulations including HIPAA and OSHA.