The role
You will share the practice's behavioral health panel (currently 312 patients) with Salim Okonkwo, PMHNP-BC. You will be the second clinician on the panel, which we have been deliberate about — the panel has grown beyond what one clinician can sustainably hold, and we have been unwilling to enlarge it without enlarging the staff first.
Initial focus: psychiatric medication management, brief CBT/ACT, and (after orientation) MOUD prescribing for the panel patients with OUD. You will not be expected to carry the on-call BH pager during your first six months; we will pay your time on the pager rotation thereafter.
Who you are
- NY-licensed PMHNP, board-certified ANCC PMHNP-BC.
- DEA-registered. SAMHSA-recognized for buprenorphine prescribing (or willing to complete the MATE Act 8-hour training before start).
- At least three years of post-licensure clinical experience in an outpatient setting that included some MOUD or addiction-medicine exposure.
- Interested in spending the first months listening to how the practice writes its monographs, rather than translating an existing workflow into ours.
- Comfortable being named as an author of the next revision of CCH-003 once you have something to add.
What you will inherit
- An open and validated intake script.
- An existing CCH-003 monograph with named contraindications.
- A panel of patients who have been told, in writing, what the practice does and does not do.
- A medical assistant team, a psychiatric pharmacist consultation arrangement (Wednesdays, by phone), a relationship with a CBT-p-trained therapist (Mira Ostrander, LCSW), and a working set of relationships with regional behavioral health resources (the McLean-aligned regional clinic; OMH-coordinated specialty mental-health programs; NYSPI).
What we have written down about the role
The full position description is published as a single PDF that is accessible from the apply email reply. The PDF is the same content as this page plus the operational definitions (panel turnover, the structure of co-management with Salim, the on-call rotation, and the formulary co-authoring expectations). We will send it to you on request before any application.
How to apply
Send a brief email to careers@pharos-kingston.example with: a CV; one paragraph on what you are looking for in a practice; and the names of two prior supervisors who would speak about your clinical care. We will respond within five business days regardless of outcome. We do not work with recruiters and will not respond to recruiter inquiries.