Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Wellpath / Correct Care Solutions; Wilkes-Barre (Luzerne County); On-site; USD 126,060 - 140,067; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DailyPay

Tuition Assistance

Employee Assistance Program

Company paid life insurance

Tax free Health Spending Accounts

Wellness program

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Wilkes-Barre is seeking a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to deliver psychiatric services to incarcerated patients. This role involves evaluations, treatment, and collaboration with mental health teams to ensure quality care. Candidates must possess a Master's in Nursing and an unrestricted PMHNP license. The position emphasizes compassionate and compliant psychiatric services, supports crisis intervention, and offers career growth opportunities within a mission-driven culture.

Qualifications

• Must have a specialty in psychiatric mental health across the lifespan.
• Minimum of one year of experience as a PMHNP required.
• Unrestricted license to practice as a PMHNP in the state of practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care.
• Monitor effectiveness and side effects of psychotropic medications.
• Collaborate with mental health teams for consistent care.

Skills

Psychiatric evaluations

Medication management

Crisis intervention

Collaborative care

Education

Master in Science of Nursing

Post-Master’s Certificate

Job description

We're on a path to better healthcare. Join us

Compensation Information: $126,060.48 - $140,067.2 / year

Department (Org): Mental Health

You Matter

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities

Join us and find a career that supports

• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training

Perks and Benefits

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:

• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

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. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

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

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

How you make a difference

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 & Requirements

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, or may be waived if approved by Vice President of Advanced Practice Program.
• Corrections experience in a PMHNP role preferred.

Licenses/Certifications

• Unrestricted current license to practice as a PMHNP in the state of practice.
• Current board certification as a PMHNP.
• Current DEA Registration (unless Chief Psychiatric Officer determines it as optional).
• Current BLS certification.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.