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Kansas City, Kansas

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Nurse PractitionerIncludes callFull-Time Physician-Supervised State

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Job Description

You Matter

  • 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
  • Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
  • 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
  • Company paid life insurance
  • 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

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.

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, or may be waived if approved by Vice President of Advanced Practice Program.

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 (unless Chief Psychiatric Officer determines it as optional).
  • Current BLS certification.

We Are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of uniqueness.

We celebrate a variety of backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.

We are an Affirmative Action Employer in accordance with applicable state and local laws.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master of Science in Nursing or a Post-Master’s Certificate with a specialty in psychiatric mental health. A current, unrestricted PMHNP license, board certification, and DEA registration are required.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Psychiatric evaluationMedication managementPatient assessmentMental health consultationPsychotropic medication monitoringEmergency treatmentClinical judgmentPatient care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at Wellpath a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Psychiatry nurse practitioner listings evaluated on our platform.

Psychiatry — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Nurse Practitioner listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 56% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Kansas is 90.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.0% of Kansas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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Relocation assistance
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 6.0
Better work-life than 50% of Psychiatry (NP) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,033 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Kansas City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$222k
Typical market rent
$1,326/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.5
State income tax
Up to 5.7%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Kansas City, MO-KS metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Wellpath

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Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision insurance
Paid time off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company paid life insurance
Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)