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Cocoa, Florida

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Nurse PractitionerIncludes callFull-Time Physician-Supervised State

Compensation

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
Includes call
Weekends
Not specified
Posted 1mo 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
  • 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 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, 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

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Psychotropic medication monitoringEmergency treatmentMental health assessment

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

In Florida, the Psychiatry weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$144k (15 salary observations; 53 listings), vs ~$153k nationally (406 salary observations; 1,133 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 22% are remote, 48% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Florida is 103.4 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.1% of Florida clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Florida has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

6.0/ 10
Listing-based score
  • Includes call

Living in Cocoa

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$294k
Typical market rent
$1,873/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
100.0
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL 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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5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision
Paid time off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program
Company paid life insurance
Health Spending Accounts