Weekend Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) – Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry

Job Details

Earn $600 per day for a weekend-only PMHNP role—typically about 4 hours onsite, then finish documentation from home. Use your inpatient psychiatric experience without giving up your weekday job, practice, or schedule.

SKILLS YOU NEED

• Active Connecticut APRN license and PMHNP certification required
• Prior inpatient psychiatric hospital experience is required; outpatient-only experience cannot be considered
• Geriatric psychiatric experience is strongly preferred
• Candidates must be trained and certified as PMHNPs; FNPs and AGPCNPs without psychiatric certification cannot be considered

Why join us?

• Earn $600 per day
• Weekend-only schedule that can supplement a weekday position, private practice, or other clinical work
• Approximately $1,200 per full weekend when working both scheduled days
• Typically only about 4 hours onsite each day
• Complete your remaining documentation from home after leaving the facility
• No Monday-through-Friday commitment
• Work from one West Hartford inpatient location, rather than spending the weekend driving between multiple facilities
• Focus on direct inpatient psychiatric care instead of building an outpatient panel
• Treat a specialized geriatric psychiatric population where experienced clinical judgment has real value
• Join an established behavioral health organization that has operated for approximately 29 years
• Work within an interdisciplinary hospital environment rather than practicing in isolation
• Opportunity to maintain your inpatient skills while keeping your primary weekday role
• Leadership is described as responsive and willing to address employee concerns quickly
• Potential exposure to a broader organization working across inpatient, outpatient, long-term-care, and advanced psychiatric treatment settings

Job Details

Provide weekend psychiatric coverage for hospitalized adults age 50 and older
Complete psychiatric follow-up assessments and evaluate changes in patient condition
Manage psychiatric medications and adjust treatment plans when clinically appropriate
Collaborate with the hospital’s physicians, nursing team, social workers, and other clinical disciplines
Address urgent behavioral health concerns that arise during weekend coverage
Complete required clinical documentation from home after leaving the facility

A Bit About Us

This is a specialized inpatient psychiatric hospital in West Hartford providing acute behavioral health treatment to adults age 50 and older. The clinical model combines psychiatric and medical care for an older population whose needs often involve far more complexity than prescribing medication and scheduling another follow-up. The broader behavioral health organization has been serving Connecticut for nearly three decades and works across hospitals, outpatient practices, nursing homes, assisted living communities, and other behavioral health settings.

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