Psych Nurse Practitioner (BH), Correctional Health Services, (8a-4:30p), Various Locations
Company: NYC Health + Hospitals
Location: New York
Posted on: March 14, 2025
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Job Description:
Marketing StatementNYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public
health care system in the nation. We are a network of 11 hospitals,
trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes,
post-acute care centers, and correctional health services. We are a
home care agency and a health plan, MetroPlus. Our health system
provides essential services to 1.4 million New Yorkers every year
in more than 70 locations across the city's five boroughs. Our
diverse workforce of more than 42,000 employees are uniquely
focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the
healthiest life possible. Visit us at nychhc.org and stay connected
on facebook.com/nycHHC or Twitter@hhcnyc.NYC Health +
Hospitals/Correctional Health Services is one of the nation's
leading correctional health care systems in quality of and
innovations to care, and access from pre-arraignment through
compassionate release. In-jail services include medical, nursing,
mental health, substance use treatment, social work, dental and
vision care, discharge planning, and reentry support. In addition
to providing direct patient care in the jails, CHS leverages the
resources of the nation's largest municipal health care system to
help discharged patients successfully return to their communities.
CHS is also a pivotal partner in New York City's criminal justice
reform efforts.Job DescriptionNew York City Health + HospitalsNYC
H+H is the largest public health care system in the world. We are a
network of 11 hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health
centers, nursing homes, and post-acute care centers. Our health
system provides essential services to 1.4 million New Yorkers ever
year in more than 70 locations across the city's five boroughs. Our
workforce of more than 42,000 employees are uniquely focused on
empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest
life possible.Correctional Health ServicesThe New York City jail
system is the second largest in the nation. A significant number of
individuals in the NYC jail system will receive care on the mental
health service. The service strives to provide safe, holistic and
evidence-based therapeutic interventions for the diverse range of
mental health issues that face the population, from serious mental
illness to the natural struggles that accompany incarceration. The
service provides some of the most comprehensive and unique
treatment modalities in the country, including specialty housing
units for individuals with serious mental illness, a 24-hour
on-call psychiatric service, robust creative arts programming,
clinics in each of the facilities, substance use treatment,
medication assisted treatment (MAT), integrated re-entry services
that includes alternatives to incarceration, and relationships with
multiple training institutions throughout the city. Furthermore,
CHS has been engaged in an effort to better identify people with
neurodevelopmental/neurocognitive disorders and to utilize
psychological testing to connect people to services in the
community (e.g., with OPWDD).ResponsibilitiesUnder the supervision
of a Senior/Supervising Psychiatrist in the Mental Health Service
of CHS, this position requires the provision of high quality,
team-based psychiatric services including psychopharmacologic
interventions, for individuals incarcerated in the New York City
jail system. Each of the facilities in the jail system has unique
patient population and environmental characteristics; each
psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will be matched with the population
that most closely meets their clinical expertise, desired work
location and schedule, and the clinical needs of the service.
Experience working in correctional settings is not required,
however the ability to work closely and effectively with multiple
other disciplines, including security staff, is
critical.Responsibilities Include
Keywords: NYC Health + Hospitals, New York , Psych Nurse Practitioner (BH), Correctional Health Services, (8a-4:30p), Various Locations, Healthcare , New York, New York
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