Responsibilities

We are seeking a well-trained Nurse Practitioner to join our Division of Behavioral Health at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. The successful candidate must be Board Certified as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and have a minimum two years of experience. Candidates must also possess or be able to obtain a NYS License.

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for determining clients’ diagnosis and psychiatric needs, prescribe the medication to be utilized during the course of treatment, and provide education as well as reviewing the appropriateness of the existing medication regimen through review of the medication record and consultation with the client and staff to prescribe and/or administer medication, including injectable; monitors the effects of the medication on the clients’ mental and physical health. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will work collaboratively with the Psychiatrist and treatment team and conduct Psychiatric evaluations, psychiatric updates, health monitoring, smoking cessation, and crisis intervention as needed and required by regulations.

This is an employed position in our academic group with comprehensive benefits, CME, and malpractice coverage.

Company Info:

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,900-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with ten hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2, and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services, and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley.

Westchester Medical Center Advanced Physician Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.    

How to Apply:

For more information about this opportunity, contact Jenna Conte,  Advanced Clinical Recruiter for WMCHealth at 845-547-3636 or by email at Jenna.conte@WMCHealth.org