Inpatient Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; PMHNP

• Location:
  
  Prescott Valley, AZ — on-site in the greater Prescott area; a mile-high, high-desert community with four mild seasons and quick access to hiking, lakes, and northern Arizona's pine country.
• Schedule:
  
  7 days on / 7 days off, Monday through Sunday. Eight-hour days — either 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with a one-hour lunch, or 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM without a lunch break.
• Compensation: $80 - $95/hour
• Benefits:
  Medical, dental, and vision; short- and long-term disability; life insurance; HSA and FSA;
  Employee Assistance Program; 401(k); paid time off; paid holidays; shift differential where applicable; educational reimbursement. Benefits eligibility may vary based on employment classification.
• Position Type:
  Temporary or permanent, W2 or 1099 — based on provider preference.
• Setting:
  Inpatient psychiatric/behavioral health.

• Work Environment:
  On-site, inpatient psychiatric and behavioral health service.
• Coverage Model and
  
  Hours:
  
  Two providers alternate weekly coverage — seven consecutive days on, Monday through Sunday, then seven days off. Eight scheduled hours per day.
• Daily Caseload:
  Approximately 12 inpatient psychiatric patients, on a service that typically maintains an overall census of about 24.
• Travel:
  Local travel between inpatient facilities may be required.
• On-Call:
  No overnight call. On-call coverage may be requested based on coverage needs.
• Interdisciplinary Team:
  Physicians, nursing staff, therapists, case managers, and support staff already in place.

Your day is built around two things: admitting new patients and moving your established patients forward. You carry a daily caseload of roughly 12 inpatient psychiatric patients on a service that usually runs a census of about 24, so the work is substantial but bounded — you know who your patients are when you arrive.

Admissions mean initial psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic assessment, treatment planning, admission orders, and the admission paperwork that goes with them. Follow-ups mean daily visits with established patients: reassessing symptoms, tracking clinical progress, adjusting psychotropic medications, monitoring treatment response and side effects, and updating the plan of care as the picture changes.

The population is acute. You will manage serious mental illness, behavioral health crises, and co-occurring substance use disorders, and you will be the provider the nursing staff comes to when a patient's status shifts during the day. Treatment team discussions, clinical case reviews, and discharge planning are part of the normal week, as is coordinating consultations and referrals when something medical or psychiatric needs another set of eyes.

Because two providers alternate weekly coverage, clean handoffs matter. Timely, accurate notes are not administrative overhead here — they are how the service runs, and how the provider following you picks up your patients without losing ground.

• A real week off, every other week. Seven days on, seven days off — not a nominal flex arrangement, but a full week away from the unit.
• No overnight call. Your clinical responsibility sits inside your scheduled hours.
• A defined daily caseload of roughly 12 patients rather than an open-ended panel.
• Full-scope inpatient psychiatric practice — admissions, diagnosis, medication management, treatment planning, and discharge, start to finish.
• Employment flexibility: temporary or permanent, W2 or 1099, based on your preference.
• An established inpatient service with an interdisciplinary team already in place, so you are joining a working unit rather than building one.