Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Overview

Do you believe compassionate, evidence-based mental health care starts with collaboration, clinical excellence, and meeting people where they are? Then we’re looking for YOU to join our team with Community First Solutions
!

We are seeking a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner to join our outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment team. In this role, you will be an integral member of a multidisciplinary team, providing psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and MAT services in collaboration with a staff psychiatrist. This is primarily an office-based position, with the potential for up to one remote telehealth day per week once caseload and workflow support that flexibility.

This is not a siloed role. As our PMHNP, you will actively engage in diagnostic assessments, medication oversight, recovery-focused care, and client education, helping individuals with mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders stabilize and move forward.

Pay
:
Starting at $60/hr, based on years of experience

Schedule
: PRN, 8-16 hours per week

Location
: Community Behavioral Health

Mission-Driven Culture
- At Community First Solutions, people come first-always. We are committed to accessible, ethical, and compassionate care for the communities we serve.

Flexible Scheduling Options
- Opportunities available for FT, PT, or PRN, with flexibility around days worked to support work-life balance.

Collaborative Care Model
- Work closely with psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, and case managers in a supportive, team-based environment.

Clinical Variety & Impact
- Engage in outpatient psychiatry, MAT services (Suboxone, Vivitrol), and ambulatory detox support.

Professional Respect & Support
- Strong leadership, clinical autonomy, and a culture that values your expertise.

• You are a Master’s-level, board-certified Nurse Practitioner with active, unrestricted NP licensure.
• You hold the required specialty credentials
  - Specialty:
  Psychiatric;
  Focus:
  Psychiatric-Mental Health
• You bring experience or strong interest in serving individuals with mental health and substance use disorders, including dual-diagnosis populations.
• You are comfortable providing medication management and MAT services, including Suboxone and Vivitrol, and are willing to work with Ambulatory Detox programs.
• You are open to providing telehealth services as part of your practice when caseload supports it.
• You demonstrate strong skills in assessment, diagnosis, documentation, crisis management, and time management.
• You collaborate effectively with psychiatrists and interdisciplinary teams while maintaining high standards of care and compliance.

• Provide med-somatic services to clients
• Assist in the evaluation of clients symptoms to justify diagnosis
• Evaluation of client’s mental status
• Provide MAT services such as Suboxene and Vivitrol
• Willingness to work with Ambulatory Detox program
• Must be able and willing to provide telehealth services
• Adhere to agency guidelines regarding productivity expectations and documentation standards
• Review and sign treatment plans
• Provide educational material to clients, family members, and staff
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of psychiatric history
• Collaborate with psychiatrist in the development, revision, maintenance and supervision of psychopharmacologic medication and treatment, medication policies and procedures including transcribing , administering, evaluating and recording psychotropic medication prescribed
• Communicate and consult with attending psychiatrist
• Completes documentation in accordance with agency standards
• Submit written reports and oral testimony and presentation of opinion in commitment and other legal proceedings when requested.
• Performs other related duties as assigned and appropriate for the position.

Education/

Certifications:

Master level board certified Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with prescription writing privileges.

Experience: Minimum 1 year experience providing psychiatric services in a community health setting, experience can include clinical rotation. Preferred experience serving clients with mental health and SUD disorders, including clients with dual diagnosis.

Specialized knowledge, skills, or abilities: This role requires that there are demonstrated skills in problems solving, decision-making, managing conflict, and follow through. Excellent oral and written communication skills, excellent documentation skills, excellent time management skills, ability to be self-directed, ability to meet outcomes as established for program or unit, excellent crisis management skills, ability to work within department budget, basic computer and keyboard knowledge in a network environment, and training skills.