Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – Comprehensive BH

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Deliver continuous psychiatric care and clinical oversight for adult and geriatric patients within the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Program.

• Perform thorough psychiatric evaluations, providing diagnoses, treatments, and medication management.

• Create personalized, evidence-based treatment plans and deliver ongoing care for a panel of behavioral health patients.

• Supervise behavioral health and dementia care management plans, evaluating patient progress.

• Collaborate with RNs, social workers, Care Navigators, and interdisciplinary care teams.

• Engage in interdisciplinary case reviews and clinical care planning.

• Act as a GUIDE Practitioner for assigned patients within the CMS GUIDE Model.

• Assist with post-hospital behavioral health evaluations, treatments, medication management, follow-ups, and continuity of care.

• Coordinate interventions and follow-up actions with Care Transitions team members.

• Facilitate transitions into ongoing behavioral health and other care management programs.

• Provide cross-coverage for TCM services, including post-discharge evaluations, medication reconciliation, medical decision-making, individualized care planning, and clinical management, within scope and privileges.

⛳️ Requirements

• Valid board certification as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP).

• Current, active, and unrestricted Maryland APRN/NP license.

• Valid DEA registration.

• Capability to maintain all necessary licenses, certifications, and registrations required for service provision.

• Experience in conducting psychiatric evaluations, diagnoses, treatments, and medication management.

• Background in caring for adult and/or geriatric patients with behavioral health needs.

• Proficiency in completing credentialing, privileging, payer enrollment, background checks, compliance training, and onboarding processes.

• Ability to deliver care effectively in a fully remote, technology-enabled clinical setting.

• Dual board certification as a PMHNP and in a primary care NP specialty, such as FNP or AGPCNP (strongly preferred).

• Active NP licensure in additional states where Avail Health offers or plans to expand services, especially California, Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia (strongly preferred).

• Established LLC or another business entity and a desire to offer services through a 1099 independent contractor arrangement (strongly preferred).

• Experience with complex behavioral health needs, dementia, cognitive impairment, co-occurring medical conditions, integrated behavioral health, dementia care, behavioral health care management, transitional care, post-acute care, value-based healthcare, and interdisciplinary care models (strongly preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-issued equipment, as applicable.

• Professional liability and malpractice insurance coverage.

• Facilitation of applicable credentialing, privileging, and payer enrollment.

• Access to necessary clinical technology.

• Opportunities for expanded services and additional hours as patient panels and programs grow.

• Potential future W-2 employment opportunity based on organizational needs and mutual interest (not guaranteed).