Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Amae-Health; Los Altos (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

PTO

Parental leave

Well-being programs

Job summary

Amae Health in Los Altos, CA seeks a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner to join an interdisciplinary team delivering personalized, high-quality care for adults with serious mental illness. The role emphasizes integrated care, collaboration with physicians, therapists, and care teams, and ongoing clinical excellence in a frontier field.

You will evaluate, treat, and monitor patients using a range of modalities, develop tailored treatment plans, and educate patients and families about

Qualifications

• Master's or Doctoral degree in Nursing from an accredited program.
• PMHNP-BC board certification.
• Active California NP license with prescriptive authority.
• DEA registration or ability to obtain.
• 2+ years working with SMI/outpatient.
• Familiarity with LA Metro area medical/mental health systems.
• Holistic view of health and patient rights.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and adaptability.
• Comfort with technology and digital care delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide behavioral healthcare management across recovery phases for Amae Health patients.
• Conduct psychiatric evaluations and ongoing medication management.
• Develop individualized treatment plans addressing psychosocial and medical needs.
• Provide regular consultations in person and, when needed, virtually.
• Collaborate with patient care teams to ensure integrated care.
• Address medical and behavioral health needs to mitigate social determinants of health.
• Educate patients and families about mental health conditions, treatments, and recovery planning.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Technology fluency

Adaptability

Diversity & inclusion

Education

Master's or Doctoral degree in Nursing

PMHNP-BC board certification

Active CA NP license with prescriptive authority

DEA registration

TMS certification (a plus)

Clozapine REMS certification / Medicaid enrollment (if needed)

2+ years working with SMI/outpatient

Familiarity with LA Metro area healthcare systems

Job description

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

The Problem

Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. Schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder. Bipolar I. Treatment-resistant depression. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for.

What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. None of it has been built. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve.

We are developing all of it. The care, the science, the technology.

Who We Are

Amae Health is a Series B, venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation that delivers specialty outpatient care for people living with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, and treatment-resistant depression. We design and operate high-acuity, in-person clinics across the United States.

Our model integrates psychiatry, therapy, primary care, dietitians, and community health workers under one roof to deliver coordinated, longitudinal care for a population that has historically been fragmented across systems.

Leading health systems collaborate with Amae to bring this model to their communities, including NewYork-Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Novant Health, and CommonSpirit Health.

Why We Are Different

• Integrated care, not a referral network. Psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, dietitians, and community health workers work side-by-side and share responsibility for the same patients.
• Practice at the top of your license. Manageable caseloads, meaningful clinical depth, and purpose-built tools designed for this population.
• Continuous learning. Through our collaboration with Mass General Brigham, clinicians receive ongoing training, supervision, and mentorship in evidence-based SMI care.
• Advancing the field. Our clinicians contribute to new outcomes frameworks and research shaping the future of severe mental illness care.
• A model built for sustainability. Team-based care, thoughtful caseloads, and strong infrastructure make this work meaningful—and sustainable over time.

The Role

We are always interested in connecting with talented individuals who could be a great fit for our team. While we may not have an immediate opening for a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, we welcome applications from strong candidates and may reach out as future hiring needs emerge. In this role, you would work as part of an interdisciplinary team dedicated to delivering personalized, compassionate, high-quality care for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI).

What You'll Do

• Provide behavioral healthcare management to Amae Health patients; monitor and manage care through an array of treatment modalities as patients progress through phases of recovery
• Conduct psychiatric evaluations and assessments and provide ongoing medication management for patients with serious mental illness
• Develop individualized treatment plans focused on addressing specific psychosocial and medical needs that might limit recovery
• Provide continuous, regular consultations as patients navigate recovery, both in person and occasionally virtually
• Liaise with patient care teams and collaborate closely with behavioral health providers to ensure an integrated, cohesive approach to care
• Address medical and behavioral health needs to mitigate the negative impacts of social determinants of health
• Educate patients and families about mental health conditions, treatment options, and recovery planning

What You'll Have

• Master's or Doctoral degree in Nursing from an accredited program
• Board certification as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC)
• Active, unrestricted California NP license and prescriptive authority in good standing
• DEA registration (or ability to obtain)
• TMS Certified a plus
• In possession of or willingness to obtain Clozapine REMS certification and Medicaid enrollment, if needed
• A minimum of 2 years working with SMI/outpatient
• Familiarity with the medical, mental health, and social service systems in the LA Metro area
• Holistic perspective on health and understanding of patient rights
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with people from diverse backgrounds
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to adapt in a dynamic environment
• Comfort with technology and a passion for using technology to improve care delivery

What We're Building

As a clinician at Amae, you are not adjacent to this work. You are essential to it.

• A national care delivery model for the highest-acuity patients in behavioral health.
• Precision medicine for SMI. Individualized treatment informed by multimodal clinical, behavioral, and social data.
• A clinical operating system that puts longitudinal data, real-time patient signals, and purpose-built tools into a single decision layer for care teams.
• Frontier science and measurement: defining and validating the outcomes frameworks that this field has never had. Hospitalizations avoided, days stable, functional improvement, and more.
• A collaboration model with the country's leading health systems that proves coordinated SMI care can work at scale.

Compensation includes a full time base salary of$170,000 - $200,000 (based on level & experience, part-time will be prorated). Total compensation includes comprehensive medical/dental/vision, PTO, parental leave, and programs built around employee well-being. Note that part-time comp and benefits packages will vary depending on schedule. We’ll share specifics during the interview process.

If you want to practice at the top of your license, learn from the best in academic medicine, contribute to research that is defining a new field, and do it all inside a team that was actually built for this work, we'd like to talk.

What We Value

• We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It’s how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.
• We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.
• We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.
• Your job isn’t done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don’t hide behind titles or org charts.
• We win together and fail together.We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don’t do blame.
• We hustle with humility.Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.