Psychiatric APP (NP/PA) – Center for Healthy Aging / Geriatrics
- Anna Jaques Hospital
- United States
- Aug 14, 2026
Job Description
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Job Description:
The Center for Healthy Aging provides experienced compassionate care for seniors aged 65 and over. The Center is a multi-disciplinary, outpatient clinic providing both geriatric medicine consults and geriatric behavioral health.
The Center for Healthy Aging is searching for a part-time Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our team, primarily based at the Lahey Outpatient Center in Danvers with coverage as needed at Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester. The team includes a geriatrician, geriatric psychiatrist, adult psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers (LICSW), and clinical support team. The candidate will report to the medical director/ geriatric psychiatrist for clinical supervision; and will report to the Administrative Director for non-clinical issues. Ideal candidate has some experience with issues of aging and in geriatric medicine and geriatric syndromes including different forms of dementia.
What you will do:
Provide direct geriatric patient mental health care services including comprehensive geriatric psych evaluations and psychopharm management.
Diagnosis, treatment and medication management for treatment of patients with behavioral health issues and comorbid issues including dementia.
Teaching patients and their caregivers how to manage illnesses and provide supportive care.
Must be comfortable and enjoy working with behavioral health patients and the geriatric population and be a team player.
Work closely with the LICSW team who do the initial behavioral health intakes and are often following patients in individual therapy.
Education:
Graduate of a Master’s Program in Nursing
Physician Assistant program
Certification/License:
Current NP or PA license in the state of Massachusetts
Schedule: 30 hours per week
Please note the correct salary is $97,203.60 to $132,194
Pay Range:
$85,332.00 USD - $116,064.00 USDThe pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123 bed community hospital serving 17 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley . The hospital offers a wide range of acute care services to meet the needs of our growing patient population including inpatient and outpatient surgery in fully digitized computerized operating room suites, cardiology including echocardiography and a cardiac cath lab, comprehensive cancer services, orthopedics, nuclear medicine, laboratory, noninvasive vascular lab, joint replacement program and birth center.
Programs include the number one wound center in the nation, a primary stroke service, and Level III Trauma Center . Diagnostic imaging services for patients include MRI, CT, PET, and the PACS digital x-ray system. In addition, we are one of only three healthcare communities to be selected for the pilot Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative. Due to the dedication of our physicians, we are one of the first communities in Massachusetts to implement electronic health records, system-wide, for the safety of our patients.
Awards
The hospitals Non Invasive Vascular laboratory was accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).
For the second year in a row, the American Association for Respiratory Care awarded the hospital its Quality Respiratory Care Recognition. The hospital had no ventilator acquired pneumonia cases during the last year.
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center is the only such center to receive full accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Massachusetts .
The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, an organization that surveys and rates the performance of hospitals at least every three years. The Joint Commission Dedicated, good employees are one of your strengths. You have a lot to be proud of.
