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Ballad Health is seeking a Psychiatric / Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) to join our collaborative behavioral health team. This position is ideal for a provider who values integrated care and is passionate about expanding access to mental health services within a primary care PMHNP functions as an independent licensed practitioner evaluating and treating patients referred by primary care providers and community-based counselors. Working in close collaboration with both behavioral health and primary care team members the PMHNP helps ensure that community members receive timely compassionate and stigma-free access to mental health integrated care model provides a full spectrum of services tailored to patient needsfrom informal peer consultations to comprehensive psychiatric care including pharmacotherapy counseling and case management. Embedding these services within primary care clinics allows patients to receive support in a comfortable familiar environment while also fostering daily collaboration shared learning and interdisciplinary teamwork among PMHNP will work under the supervision of a psychiatry physician located nearby maintaining compliance with all licensing and payer requirements. Together the psychiatrist and PMHNP will establish and sustain a high standard of individualized patient care. Many treatment plans will be initiated and managed by primary care providers with the PMHNP serving as a consultant and resource for ongoing psychiatric Highlights:4-day Work Week 10-hour daysCompetitive compensation and comprehensive benefits packageCollaborative environment with MDs DOs and NPsSupervision and support from an experienced psychiatry physicianOpportunity to advance integrated behavioral health within primary careQualifications:Current PMHNP Certification requiredStrong clinical and interpersonal skillsCommitment to teamwork and integrated patient-centered carz