Lead Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Company Description Cordial Health, PC is a psychiatry practice focused on enhancing lives through compassionate mental health care in nursing homes. The team provides individualized treatment plans that address the complex psychiatric needs of residents in long-term care settings. The practice emphasizes empathy, clinical excellence, and collaboration with facility staff to improve mental health outcomes. Professionals joining Cordial Health, PC contribute to a mission-driven environment dedicated to meaningful impact in geriatric and adult psychiatry.

Role Description Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) to serve as a Regional Behavioral Health Clinical Lead across Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

This full-time leadership position combines direct psychiatric care with provider mentorship, clinical quality oversight, and collaboration with clinical and operational leadership. The Regional Lead will help support providers, improve clinical consistency, and ensure the delivery of high-quality psychiatric services throughout the assigned region.

This position offers a stable weekday schedule with no weekend work.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis, treatment planning, medication management, and follow-up care as needed

• Mentor and support psychiatric nurse practitioners and physician assistants throughout the assigned region

• Review complex cases and provide clinical guidance that promotes safe, evidence-based care

• Help standardize clinical documentation, treatment practices, and quality expectations

• Support provider onboarding, training, case collaboration, and professional development

• Partner with medical, clinical, and operational leadership on quality and performance-improvement initiatives

• Monitor clinical performance and identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes

• Build collaborative relationships with physicians, nursing staff, therapists, social workers, and facility leadership

• Provide in-person regional coverage when needed across Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx

• Maintain accurate, timely, and compliant documentation

Qualifications

• Board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) or Physician Assistant (PA) with significant psychiatric experience

• Active and unrestricted New York license

• Active DEA registration required

• Previous clinical leadership, provider mentorship, or team-lead experience required

• Strong expertise in psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, psychopharmacology, and treatment planning

• Experience serving adult and geriatric patients in skilled nursing, long-term care, rehabilitation, or post-acute settings strongly preferred

• Ability and willingness to travel throughout Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx

• Ability to balance clinical responsibilities with leadership and provider support

• Excellent leadership, communication, organization, clinical reasoning, and relationship-building skills

Benefits

• Full-time weekday schedule

• No weekend work

• Annual salary of $225,000

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• 401(k) with employer match

• Paid time off

• Malpractice insurance coverage

• Paid orientation and training

• Weekly live didactic continuing education

• Paid access to Up To Date

• Ongoing collaboration with experienced psychiatric and medical leadership

• Comprehensive clinical, administrative, and operational support

• Meaningful opportunity to shape clinical quality and provider development across a growing region

• Long-term professional growth and leadership opportunities