Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner PMHNP BC

Wellpath / Correct Care Solutions; Waukesha, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DailyPay

Tuition assistance

EAP including counseling

HSA

Wellness program

Banking benefits

Life insurance

Job summary

Wellpath / Correct Care Solutions seeks a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner PMHNP‑BC to provide comprehensive psychiatric services for incarcerated patients. The role emphasizes independent clinical evaluation, psychotropic management, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams in a state facility.

Requires MSN PMHNP or post-master’s certificate, active PMHNP board certification, DEA, and BLS. 1+ year PMHNP experience; corrections experience preferred.

Qualifications

• MSN PMHNP degree or Post-Master’s certificate in psychiatric mental health across the lifespan.
• Minimum one year of PMHNP experience; corrections experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care with independent medical judgment.
• Monitor and manage psychotropic medications and follow-up on effects and side effects.
• Collaborate with mental health, medical, and administrative teams for consistent services.
• Complete accurate clinical documentation and participate in meetings and on-call coverage.
• Support crisis intervention, referrals, transfers, and involuntary treatment as allowed.

Skills

PMHNP

Clinical decision-making

Team collaboration

Education

MSN PMHNP program

Post-Master’s Certificate

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• Company paid life insurance

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 scope of practice, collaborative protocols, and established policies. This role delivers direct psychiatric care while also providing clinical consultation to mental health and healthcare staff. The position works within state guidelines to support consistent, high-quality psychiatric services across the facility. Clinical consultation and supervision are sought as required under applicable collaborative practice requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care while exercising independent medical judgment.
• Monitor and manage psychotropic medications, including effectiveness, side effects, and required follow-up.
• Collaborate with mental health, medical, and administrative teams to ensure consistent psychiatric and mental health 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.

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.
• 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.
• Current BLS certification.

This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

Additional Details

1 day on site, typically a 10 hr day. Currently this is scheduled for Mondays, however, could be changed to another day during the week. On call 24/7, however, most contacts would occur three times per day during batched calls times. The purpose of this is for medication verification and ordering.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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