Part-Time Nurse Practitioner - Heartland Behavioral Healthcare - PN 20001924

Please note: Effective October 1, 2025, the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services has transitioned to its new name-the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health. This change reflects our continued commitment to providing comprehensive, person-centered care that addresses the full range of behavioral health needs for Ohioans. All positions and services now fall under the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health as we move forward in serving individuals, families, and communities across the state.

What you'll do at DBH:

• Serves as a health care provider, providing primary health care in coordination and collaboration with physician, interdisciplinary health care and mental health team
• Creates & implements patient care plans and performs advanced nursing duties within boundaries of licensure
• Monitors progress of patients and intervenes in the course of acute illness
• Completes comprehensive health exam and dictates findings, including assessments for suicidality and homicidality
• Evaluates necessity for further testing or referral to appropriate specialist
• Dictates discharge narrative summaries
• Analyzes and documents findings & prescribes medications or administers treatment of acute & chronically ill patients
• Evaluates necessity for referral consultations inside or outside the regional psychiatric hospital; orders & reviews results of laboratory, x-ray & other diagnostic testing.
• Provides clinical direction to registered nurses, licensed practical nurses & other caregivers
• Serves as resource person to other entities (e.g., infection control, education & training office)
• Performs H&Ps and attends to all physical health needs of patients, as requested by the unit staffs, on the weekend/holidays.

This is an hourly position covered by the Ohio Health Care SEIU/1199 bargaining unit (union), with a pay range of 15 on the Ohio Health Care SEIU/1199 Pay Range Schedule. Normal working hours are 24 hours per week, Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday. This position is located within our Heartland Behavioral Healthcare at 3000 Erie Street South, Massillon, OH 44646.

Unless required by any applicable union contract and/or requirements of the Ohio Revised Code, the selected candidate will begin at Step 1 of the pay range schedule listed above, with an opportunity for pay increase after six months of satisfactory performance and then a yearly raise thereafter.

Position Qualifications:

Valid license as Registered Nurse; completion of Nurse Practitioner program & certified by Ohio Board of Nursing for advanced practice with valid certificate of authority & certificate to prescribe in accordance with ORC 4723.

Job Skills: Nursing

Technical Skills: Mental Health, Behavioral Health

Professional Skills: Analyzation, Consultation, Customer Focus, Priority Setting, Written Communication