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Elk River, Minnesota

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP)

Nurse PractitionerIncludes callFull-Time Full Practice Authority

Listed compensation

$127k-$141k

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
Includes call
Weekends
Not specified
Posted 23h ago · Verified live

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
  • 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

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 licensure, collaborative practice requirements, and established policies and procedures.

This role delivers direct psychiatric care, clinical consultation, and follow-up services to support patient treatment and continuity of care. The position works closely with mental health, medical, and administrative teams to ensure consistent and compliant psychiatric services.

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner also seeks clinical consultation and supervision as required by collaborative practice protocols.

Key Responsibilities

Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, follow-up care, and medication management within professional and regulatory standards.

Monitor effectiveness and side effects of psychotropic medications and provide ongoing patient education and informed consent.

Collaborate with mental health, medical, and administrative teams to ensure coordinated and consistent psychiatric 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 and guidelines.

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.
  • 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.
  • Current BLS certification.
  • This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.
  • We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.

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.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master of Science in Nursing or a Post-Master’s Certificate with a specialty in psychiatric mental health across the lifespan. A minimum of one year of experience as a PMHNP, current board certification, and an unrestricted state license are required.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Psychotropic medication monitoringMental health assessmentEmergency treatment

Psychiatry — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 41 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 56% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$134k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $136k in an average-cost state. 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

3.0/ 10
Listing-based score
  • Includes call

Living in Elk River

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$379k
Typical market rent
$2,069/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.8
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 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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Franklin, Tennessee
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision
Paid time off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Dependent Scholarships
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company paid life insurance