Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Oak Ridge NJ)

Are you looking to build a long-term career where your clinical expertise genuinely changes lives?

We are expanding our behavioral health services and are seeking a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) to provide 100% on-site psychiatric care throughout skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation centers, and long-term care communities in Oak Ridge, New Jersey (07438) and the surrounding area.

Unlike traditional psychiatric positions, this opportunity allows you to become a trusted behavioral health resource within your assigned facilities, building meaningful relationships with residents, families, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary teams. You'll work with medically complex adult and geriatric patients while helping improve psychiatric stability, quality of life, and overall patient outcomes.

This role is ideal for providers who value clinical autonomy, enjoy developing long-term patient relationships, and are seeking meaningful career growth within a rapidly expanding behavioral health organization.

Why Join Our Team

• Highly competitive compensation with exceptional earning potential

• Flexible scheduling options supporting work-life balance

• 100% on-site practice within established skilled nursing and long-term care facilities

• Opportunity to become a clinical specialist in geriatric behavioral health

• High level of provider autonomy with experienced psychiatric leadership available for consultation

• Structured clinical support allowing you to focus on patient care rather than administrative tasks

• Stable daytime schedule with predictable workflow

• Long-term career advancement opportunities including provider mentoring, clinical leadership, regional expansion, and program development

• Growing organization that actively promotes from within

• Rewarding opportunity to improve the lives of elderly and underserved patients every day

Requirements

• Perform comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, initial consultations, and ongoing follow-up visits for adult and geriatric residents

• Diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, dementia-related behaviors, adjustment disorders, insomnia, chronic mental illness, and other behavioral health conditions

• Prescribe, monitor, and optimize psychotropic medication regimens while evaluating treatment effectiveness and potential side effects

• Assess residents experiencing behavioral disturbances, cognitive decline, agitation, aggression, mood instability, confusion, and neuropsychiatric symptoms

• Develop individualized treatment plans that address each resident's psychiatric, cognitive, medical, emotional, and functional needs

• Collaborate closely with attending physicians, medical directors, nursing leadership, rehabilitation teams, therapists, social workers, and facility administrators

• Participate in interdisciplinary care conferences and contribute behavioral health recommendations that improve resident outcomes

• Educate residents, family members, caregivers, and facility staff regarding diagnoses, medications, behavioral interventions, and treatment expectations

• Assist facilities in reducing psychiatric crises, behavioral escalations, emergency department utilization, and unnecessary hospitalizations

• Maintain timely, accurate, and compliant documentation within the electronic medical record

• Participate in quality improvement initiatives supporting behavioral health excellence throughout assigned facilities

Qualifications

• Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC)

• Active and unrestricted New Jersey Nurse Practitioner license

• DEA registration

• Strong psychiatric assessment, diagnostic, psychopharmacology, and treatment planning skills

• Ability to independently manage a psychiatric patient panel while collaborating effectively with interdisciplinary healthcare teams

• Experience in psychiatry, behavioral health, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, long-term care, or geriatric medicine preferred

• Experience treating dementia-related behaviors, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosis, chronic psychiatric illness, and medically complex patients strongly preferred

• Excellent communication, organizational, documentation, and relationship-building skills

• Passion for improving psychiatric care for elderly and underserved populations

Career Growth & Advancement

This position offers much more than a traditional PMHNP opportunity. It provides a clear pathway to becoming a recognized specialist within geriatric behavioral health while working alongside an organization committed to provider success.

As our behavioral health services continue to expand throughout New Jersey, providers demonstrating strong clinical performance may have opportunities to:

• Expand into additional facilities

• Mentor and support newly hired providers

• Participate in clinical program development

• Assist with regional expansion initiatives

• Advance into provider leadership and management roles

We are committed to investing in our providers through mentorship, continuing education, and opportunities that support both personal and professional growth.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) with employer contribution

• Paid time off and paid holidays

• Malpractice insurance coverage

• Continuing education and professional development assistance

• Strong clinical and administrative support

• Long-term advancement opportunities within a rapidly growing behavioral health organization

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner seeking meaningful work, professional independence, and long-term career growth while providing compassionate psychiatric care to residents throughout Oak Ridge, New Jersey (07438) and the surrounding communities.