Nurse Practitioner, Cornell Health - Multiple Positions Available

Student & Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual, academic and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters including public service, health, wellbeing, connection and belonging, residential living, food services, sports, recreation, career services, and student activities and organizations including sorority and fraternity life. We provide support and services to roughly 25,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Cornell Health's more than 200 employees collaborate to provide integrated and culturally-sensitive mental health, medical, health promotion, public health, student accommodations, and occupational medicine care and services. Dually focused on holistic health of Cornell students and well-being of the larger campus community, the unit supports readiness to learn, to participate fully in the Cornell experience, and to achieve academic, work, and life success. Cornell Health is nationally recognized for innovation and leadership, and is committed to an ongoing journey toward integrated, cost-effective, and community-based services and campus health initiatives.

Cornell Health’s Medical Services is a collaborative, vibrant, innovative, inter-professional department which provides holistic clinical care to address students’ biopsychosocial needs. Working collaboratively with other Cornell Health departments, medical staff aspire to a data-driven approach to provide high-quality, accessible, cost-effective, culturally-sensitive, and developmentally-appropriate care and services to Cornell’s student population, meeting the routine and urgent needs of patients.

The Psychiatry team at Cornell Health provides evaluation and medication management for Cornell students. Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners provide diagnostic and pharmacologic treatment to students, including prescribing and monitoring medication for psychiatric illnesses as well as educating students about their illness and medication. This role provides consultation services to, and collaborates with, staff across Cornell Health including Counselor/Therapists in Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), Behavioral Health Consultants, and medical clinicians to ensure continuity of care for each student under Cornell Health’s care. To manage complex cases, the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner team works collaboratively with psychiatrists based at Weill-Cornell. When needed, the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will assist with the management of psychiatric emergencies.

While position responsibilities vary, every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a healthy work environment by communicating across differences; being cooperative, collaborative, open, and welcoming; showing respect, compassion, and empathy; engaging and supporting others regardless of background or perspective; speaking up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and supporting work/life integration of oneself and others.

Success Factors

• A positive contributor to a team-based, inter-professional environment with an innovative, collaborative, improvement-oriented culture
• Demonstrated experience providing psychiatric consultation and medication management to young adults, in a college health setting, and/or experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Keeps current on best practices for providing psychiatric care to a diverse campus community
• Fosters strong working relationships with healthcare professionals across disciplines
• Excellent interpersonal skills that demonstrate knowledge and awareness necessary for working with a highly diverse staff and clientele

Required Qualifications

• Nurse Practitioner with current NYS license.
• Current certificate to practice as a mental health nurse practitioner in NYS.
• Master’s degree in clinical specialty or equivalent experience. PMHNP board certified, or eligible.
• CPR-BLS level certification achieved within one year of employment and maintained biannually, as applicable.
• Sophisticated ability to evaluate the mental health of students across a diverse spectrum of identities, including their appropriateness for psychotropic medications
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills that include, but are not limited to, the ability to use data to drive decisions, to keep the team’s treatment protocols in line with established best practices, and to offer consultation to various stakeholders
• Experience with an Electronic Health Record and Microsoft office applications.
• Interest in, and concern for, health problems encountered in a campus community, including medical and mental health issues and areas where they intersect.
• Ability to serve as an advocate for individuals of all ethnicities, genders, ages, and backgrounds.

Preferred Qualification

• Two years experience working as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in an outpatient setting.
• Experience working in an integrated ambulatory health care environment.
• Special expertise in key areas of risk in a college population, such as suicide, substance use, and disordered eating.
• Knowledge of non-pharmacologically-based interventions for mental health, and recognition of when and how they should be integrated into a treatment plan.
• Ability to coordinate with colleagues to maintain continuity of patient care and ensure the appropriate management and treatment of medical problems when not physically present at the health center.
• Proficiency in Mandarin, Spanish or any language other than English highly desirable.
• Strong interest in leadership, mentoring, and coaching, and an ability to coordinate with colleagues to maintain continuity of patient care and ensure the appropriate management and treatment of medical problems.

Note: No relocation assistance is provided for this position. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

University Job Title

Nurse Practitioner

Job Family

Health

Level

G

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Pay Range

$110,531.00 - $135,094.00

Remote Option Availability

Onsite

Company

Contact Name

Candyse James

Contact Email

cj462@cornell.edu

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• Unique applicable skills
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