Inpatient Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurse, New Hampshire Hospital - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurse
New Hampshire Hospital - Concord, NH 

Are you looking to work with an engaged team and motivated faculty?  Are you looking to collaborate and learn from other PMHNPs, Psychiatrists, and General Medicine providers to provide state-of-the-art inpatient psychiatric care to people with significant psychiatric difficulties?  Then we have an exciting role for you! 

Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Department of Psychiatry, in a unique collaboration with the State of New Hampshire, seeks a full-time experienced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to be based primarily at New Hampshire Hospital, our affiliated state psychiatric facility, located in Concord, NH.

In this role, you will join a Medical Staff where nurse practitioners comprise one-third of the membership.  You will also lead a team of interdisciplinary clinicians, as the Attending Provider, to provide state-of-the-art inpatient psychiatric care to people with severe behavioral health issues.  We work collaboratively with an experienced team of fellow nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, and medical providers to deliver high-quality care.  The aim of the state-academic partnership is to offer outstanding care, train others in this important work, and add to our field’s understanding of how to optimally serve this population. The hospital is a major teaching site for several academic programs for advanced practice providers as well as Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine.

If you are a seasoned clinician, an enthusiastic teacher, and have strong organizational and an interest in working in the inpatient setting, we want to hear from you!  Our team is dedicated to promoting the professional development of each nurse practitioner to meet their full potential and practice at the top of their scope. 

Dartmouth Health is highly dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive group of faculty, staff, and trainees to meet the vast needs of our community and patient populations. We are especially interested in applicants who can work effectively with and care for individuals from all backgrounds, including but not limited to: racial and ethnic minorities, women, individuals who identify with LGBTQ+ communities, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and/or individuals from lower income backgrounds. We invite applicants to state in their cover letter how their professional and/or life experiences prepare them to advance Dartmouth Health’s commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

What Dartmouth Health has to offer you:

• Inclusive and collegial multidisciplinary team
• Opportunity for mentorship, scholarly work, and teaching
• Integration and close collaboration with pediatrics
• 160hrs Vacation, 6 Holidays, 5 CME Days
• Retirement (up to 6% match)
• Education Loan Incentive Program for outstanding loans
• Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision, Malpractice, Life and Disability

What New Hampshire has to offer you:

• Unmatched quality of life
• Four seasons and an outdoor lifestyle
• Access to major cities and airports
• Proximity to mountains and hiking trails
• Driving distance to the seacoast/ocean
• No state sales or income tax in NH!

New Hampshire Hospital has a long tradition of providing excellent care to people who develop mental illnesses. We provide acute, inpatient psychiatric services for adults and the elderly who need active treatment and other essential supports within a continuum of community-based care. Specialized diagnostic and therapeutic services are provided for 2000 patients each year, keeping our 168 beds full. Half of hospital patients are discharged within ten days.  Approximately 600 staff include board-certified psychiatrists, general medical services, specialized nursing, allied clinical, administrative, and support personnel.  To meet our patient’s needs, our goal is to provide smooth access to services; safety, sensitivity, and compassion in daily care; skill and attentiveness from physicians/residents and nurses; timely, helpful therapies; accommodation of family needs and visits; a clean, restful environment; adequate food and nutrition; timely, clear aftercare planning; and our patients to have an overall feeling of improvement on discharge. This represents a standard of care we would want for our loved ones and ourselves should we be in need of such services.

The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry, and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, the Dartmouth Children's Hospital; 4 affiliated hospitals, and 30 ambulatory clinics across the region.

Concord, New Hampshire’s state capital, is set on the beautiful Merrimack River in the center of the state. With more than 270 years of history, the city is not only rated as one of the best places in which to live and work but is also the center of some of the finest healthcare networks in northern New Hampshire.  Downtown Concord is only 20 minutes north of the Manchester Airport, providing easy access for travel. New Hampshire’s seacoast is about an hour’s drive, while Boston is less than an hour and a half away.  Concord and surrounding areas offer a variety of destinations to enjoy skiing, antiquing, arts, museums, athletics, and much more. Popular cultural attractions include Canterbury Shaker Village, the Museum of New Hampshire History, the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, and the New Hampshire International Speedway.  Noted for exceptional public and private schools in the area, Concord was named by Expansion Management magazine as a Gold Medal district for offering the highest quality public education in the state. It is also the home to the renowned St. Paul’s private preparatory school, Franklin Pierce Law Center, New Hampshire’s only law school, New Hampshire Technical Institute, and the Granite State Symphony Orchestra.

To confidentially learn details, please contact:

Juliann Hamblin, CPRP-DEI
Provider Recruiter
juliann.hamblin@hitchcock.org

Cover Letters should be addressed to:

 Deb Fournier, APRN

 Lead APP, Department of Psychiatry

• Graduate of an accredited APRN academic program
• National specialty certification as Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

• Eligible for RN licensure in the States of NH
• Eligible for APRN licensure in the State of NH
• Eligible for Federal DEA Registration
• BLS certification