Are you a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with a passion for helping children, we want to speak with you!

Great things happen for providers like you who seek to put patients first. They find themselves at MaineHealth, Maine’s largest integrated health system. Join us, and you will also find supportive, collaborative colleagues; strong patient/provider relationships; and comprehensive resources and advanced technologies, including fully integrated Epic EMR. Plus, you will experience the exceptional and rewarding lifestyle only Maine can offer.

MaineHealth Behavioral Health (MHBH), a member of MaineHealth, seeks a full-time psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) to join our integrated team in Kennebunk, Maine. The PMHNP will join the Pediatrics team to provide psychiatric consultation and care to help shape services for a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic. Educating the care team on psychiatric approaches to behavioral health conditions is an exciting part of the role. The ideal candidate will have a passion for treating children of all ages and young adults with behavioral health disorders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree with an advanced knowledge of nursing theory and practice, and additional medical training.
• Current and valid license as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner by the Maine State Board of Nursing.
• Qualified to do psychiatric evaluations and medication management.
• Specific credentialing criteria are needed if working in the hospital as defined by Medical Staff By-Laws.
• Experience: 2+ years of patient care as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in a community mental health center or hospital is required.
• Advanced skill and knowledge in conducting psychiatric evaluations and treating patients.
  
  

MaineHealth is a not-for-profit integrated health system whose vision is, “Working together so our communities are the healthiest in America.” MaineHealth consists of nine local health systems, a comprehensive behavioral health care network, diagnostic services, home health agencies, and 1,700 employed clinicians working together through the MaineHealth Medical Group. With approximately 22,000 care team members, MaineHealth provides preventive care, diagnosis, and treatment to 1.1 million residents in Maine and New Hampshire.

MaineHealth Behavioral Health (MHBH), a MaineHealth member, is Northern New England’s leading integrated behavioral healthcare system, serving predominantly southern, western, central, and Mid-Coast Maine. It is composed of southern Maine’s only nonprofit psychiatric hospital, eight multidisciplinary outpatient clinics, crisis services, crisis stabilization units, partial hospital and intensive outpatient treatment, as well as four ACT teams. This fully integrated and growing system of behavioral healthcare makes it a regional and national model for treating people with serious mental health issues.

To learn more about our system, please visit www.mainehealth.org and our benefits page.

For more information, please contact Dave Somers, Physician and APP Recruiter at david.somers@mainehealth.org.