Consulting Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant

🕒 June 26

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

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Protocol Behavioral Health

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2025

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 B2B

Healthcare • B2B

Protocol Behavioral Health is a clinical services and care-delivery organization that provides oncology-focused behavioral health support to cancer patients using evidence-based Collaborative Care (CoCM) interventions. It partners with oncology practices to integrate virtual behavioral healthcare into existing workflows and EHRs, offering rapid access to oncology-trained behavioral health specialists and psychiatrists, structured updates for oncologists, and revenue-generating services that improve patient outcomes, treatment adherence, and reduce unnecessary utilization. The company is grounded in academic research and adapts proven clinical models to community oncology settings.

📋 Description

• Join weekly consultation meetings with behavioral health care managers reviewing the Collaborative Care Model patient registry. • Support the consulting psychiatrist in evaluating treatment plans and contributing to medication recommendations for oncology patients with psychiatric co-occurring conditions. • Provide direct psychiatric evaluation and treatment, including prescribing psychiatric medications, when indicated and within scope of practice. • Maintain working knowledge of interactions between psychiatric medications and common oncology treatments, under the guidance of the supervising psychiatrist. • Communicate treatment support and care coordination to oncology teams in alignment with Protocol’s clinical standards. • Evaluate psychiatric risk in the context of oncology care, including suicidal ideation, trauma responses, and the psychiatric impact of cancer diagnoses and treatment. • Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including behavioral health care managers, oncology providers, and outside psychiatric providers as needed. • Participate in initial and ongoing training required by Protocol. • Engage in ongoing supervision and department meetings as needed. • Maintain licensure in home state and obtain licensure in other states as requested by Protocol (licensure costs for licenses requested by Protocol will be covered). • Perform other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• An active, unrestricted license in at least one US state as one of the following, with preference for New York licensure: • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC), or • Physician Assistant (PA-C) with demonstrated psychiatric training, experience, or certification (e.g., CAQ-Psychiatry or equivalent) • Ability to support a caseload of patients of different diagnoses, backgrounds and cultures, and with varying degrees of acuity. • Experience with patients in oncology and/or chronic or serious medical illness settings. • Experience supporting patients with suicidal ideation and/or trauma. • Comfort treating co-occurring psychiatric conditions including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders, and ADHD in a medically complex population. • Ability to practice collaboratively within a supervised care model, with openness to clinical oversight and team-based decision making. • Strong communication skills and ability to respond to patient and team messages in a timely manner.

🏖️ Benefits

• Licensure costs for licenses requested by Protocol will be covered.