Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

About the role

Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved. Join a mission‑driven organization with a people‑first culture that offers excellent career growth opportunities.

This role supports caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients, providing autonomy in a warm team environment and ongoing training and development.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month, and a very large percent receive direct clinical care, including lives saved by Narcan.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non‑judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most.

Responsibilities

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner provides a full range of psychiatric services to incarcerated patients in accordance with state licensure, collaborative practice requirements, and established policies and procedures. This role delivers direct psychiatric care, clinical consultation, and follow‑up services to support patient treatment and continuity of care. The position works closely with mental health, medical, and administrative teams to ensure consistent and compliant psychiatric services. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner also seeks clinical consultation and supervision as required by collaborative practice protocols.

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, follow‑up care, and medication management within professional and regulatory standards.
• Monitor effectiveness and side effects of psychotropic medications and provide ongoing patient education and informed consent.
• Collaborate with mental health, medical, and administrative teams to ensure coordinated and consistent psychiatric services.
• Complete timely, accurate clinical documentation and participate in required meetings, consultations, and on‑call coverage.
• Support crisis intervention, referrals, transfers, and emergency or involuntary treatment processes as allowed by scope of practice and guidelines.

Qualifications

• Education: Master in Science of Nursing or Post‑Master’s Certificate from an accredited nurse practitioner program with a specialty in psychiatric mental health across the lifespan.
• Experience: Minimum one (1) year of experience as a PMHNP required; corrections experience in a PMHNP role preferred.
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