ACT Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Outpatient

Southwest Network, Inc.; Phoenix, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Retirement plan with company match

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Southwest Network, Inc. is seeking a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (ACT Team) for our outpatient services in Phoenix, AZ. The role focuses on leading medical services for the ACT team, with a defined caseload and after-hours coverage as part of the team-based care model.

You will perform comprehensive psychiatric assessments, manage medications (including clozapine and LAIs), and may integrate brief therapy to maximize outcomes. Collaboration with primary care and other teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Two years of experience as a psychiatric nurse practitioner (PMHNP).
• Valid DEA certification.
• Arizona license as an NP or eligibility for licensure.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive psychiatric assessments and treatment planning.
• Provide ongoing psychopharmacologic management including complex regimens.
• Integrate brief therapy during visits when appropriate to enhance outcomes.
• Coordinate with primary care, pharmacy, and inpatient teams during transitions.

Skills

Psychiatric assessment

Psychopharmacology

Brief therapy integration

Team collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Nursing/PMHNP

Job description

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (ACT Team) - Outpatient

Job Category: Clinical

Requisition Number: PSYCH003317

• Posted : August 25, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

Locations

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Description

The Role

The ACT Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner functions as the psychiatric medical provider and senior prescribing clinician on the ACT team, directing, coordinating and providing medical/clinical services to members served by the team. Provides medication services, provides clinical leadership and guidance regarding team’s delivery of direct clinical services, monitors member status, and participates in meetings, staffings, and treatment planning. Has a defined caseload, productivity goals, and meets the psychiatric needs of any member assigned to the ACT team. Provides after-hours care, on-call coverage, and support to all members served by the ACT team. Participates in utilization management and quality improvement activities as required.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Comprehensive psychiatric assessments, diagnostic clarification, and treatment planning
• Ongoing psychopharmacologic management, including clozapine and long-acting injectable antipsychotics
• Ability to integrate brief therapy during your visits as appropriate, to maximize clinical outcomes
• Consultation with colleagues on complex or treatment-resistant cases
• Providing psychiatric care for members on Court Ordered Treatment (COT) as part of your overall caseload
• Coordination with primary care, pharmacy, and inpatient teams during care transitions

Work collaboratively with the ACT clinical team to engage, educate, communicate, and coordinate care with each member, their family, behavioral, medical and dental health care providers, community resource providers, and others to ensure that all services prescribed in the individualized service plan (ISP) are implemented.

Conduct frequent community visits, including but not limited to private homes, Southwest Network sites, provider/treatment/service locations, educational facilities, jail/juvenile facilities, hospitals, and residential treatment/group homes.

• Opportunity to mentor and teach psychiatry residents during clinical rotations at our site

Why This Role Matters

Behind every diagnosis is a human being with a story, goals, and the capacity for change. Our members often face significant barriers, including serious mental illness, medical challenges, housing instability, isolation, and fragmented care. They also bring resilience, strengths, and possibilities. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who thrives here understands that great care is built one relationship at a time. Your clinical decisions, curiosity, and consistency can help someone regain stability and reconnect with what matters to them. This can lead to meaningful steps toward the life they want to build.

What We Offer

• A mission-driven organization with deep roots in community behavioral health since 1998
• A collaborative, team-based care model where psychiatrists are supported, not siloed
• Outpatient only; no inpatient coverage

Serves as on-call as directed; appoints a designee when not available. Evening or weekend hours required on an as-needed basis

• Manageable caseloads designed to prevent burnout and allow you to practice the way you trained to

Who You Are

• Board-certified or eligible PMHNP
• Experienced in working with SMI populations, ideally in community mental health or comparable settings
• Psychologically-minded: skilled at both medication management and integrating brief therapy when appropriate, to care for the whole person
• Comfortable navigating complexity and energized by the opportunity to make a difference in community mental health
• A team player who values collaboration

Education and Licensure Requirements

• Valid DEA certification

Minimum two (2) years of experience as a psychiatric nurse practitioner, including experience treating adults with serious mental illness (SMI) and/or other high-acuity behavioral health populations. Prior ACT experience or equivalent community-based SMI experience strongly preferred.

• Must maintain current CPR, First Aid, and Therapeutic Options (de-escalation/workplace safety) certifications, offered through Southwest Network
• Valid Arizona driver’s license and vehicle insurance
• Must be at least 21 years of age

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Health Savings and Flex Spending account options
• Paid sick, vacation, and holiday time (10 paid holidays per year)
• CME reimbursement and paid CME time
• Retirement plan (403b) with company match
• Virta (diabetes management program)
• Disability insurance
• Basic life insurance with the option to purchase supplemental insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Discounts

When you consider the total compensation package, the support, and the impact you’ll have, this may be the opportunity you’ve been looking for. Any offer of employment is contingent upon verification of education, employment, driving record and auto insurance, and completion of a criminal background check and drug testing. Southwest Network is an equal opportunity employer.

About our Adult Services Division

For adults with serious mental illness, recovery and success in life depends on good mental and physical health, as well as having satisfying relationships, safe housing, purpose in life, a sense of belonging, and hope for the future. We help people define their personal goals for recovery and manage their symptoms so they can achieve those goals. With our integrated health services, care and support, they discover strengths they didn’t know they had and are able to build futures filled with hope, meaning, and wellness.

About Southwest Network

Southwest Network provides integrated behavioral and physical health services, caring for both the mind and body for whole health and wellness. We provide treatment programs for seriously mentally ill adults and children and adolescents with complex emotional and behavioral needs. We are committed to their recovery, and we work together to offer hope, support individual goals, encourage self-sufficiency, and change lives.

We understand how important our employees are to those they care for, and how critical they are to our mission. As one of our employees, we will look after as many of your professional and personal needs as we can and make sure your work environment is productive and pleasant. We are committed to offering you opportunities for personal and career growth, and we value and reward innovation, collaboration, dedication, and strength.

Qualifications

Behaviors

Preferred

Team Player

Works well as a member of a group

Loyal

Shows firm and constant support to a cause

Functional Expert

Considered a thought leader on a subject

Detail Oriented

Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Dedicated

Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Motivations

Ability to Make an Impact

Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization

Education

Masters or better in Nursing.

Experience

At least two years experience as a full time Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with prescriptive authority following NP Licensure.

Licensed by the State of Arizona; and valid DEA Certification.

Must maintain current CPR, First Aid, and Therapeutic Options Certifications.Completion of an accredited NP program with Psychiatric Mental Health Certification or ANCC Certified as Psy-NP.

Master’s degree in a social science field or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Licenses & Certifications

• Therapeutic Options
• TB Shot
• Flu Shot
• First Aid
• DEA License
• Advance Practice RN

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