Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners (Ithaca)

We are seeking multiple experienced and compassionate Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) to provide psychiatric care in long -term care, skilled nursing, nursing home, and post -acute care settings throughout Tompkins County & surrounding area. This is an outstanding opportunity for clinicians who want to work with a medically and behaviorally complex geriatric population while benefiting from strong earning potential, flexible scheduling, clinical autonomy, and long -term career growth.

This role is ideal for providers who are motivated by both mission and income opportunity. Clinicians will have the ability to build a highly rewarding practice in the LTC behavioral health space, with access to strong support, established facility relationships, and opportunities for future advancement.

• Strong earning potential with opportunity for meaningful income growth
  

• Flexible full -time and part -time scheduling options
  

• Predictable daytime schedule
  

• Opportunity to work across skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, and long -term care facilities
  

• High level of autonomy with clinical support available when needed
  

• Ongoing professional development and training
  

• Opportunity for advancement into leadership, travel, and expansion roles
  

• Meaningful work serving an underserved geriatric and elderly population
  
  

Requirements

• Perform comprehensive psychiatric evaluations for residents in long -term care and skilled nursing facilities
  

• Provide ongoing medication management and psychiatric follow -up visits
  

• Diagnose and treat common geriatric psychiatry conditions including depression, anxiety, dementia -related behaviors, psychosis, mood disorders, and chronic mental illness
  

• Prescribe, monitor, and adjust psychotropic medications based on each resident’s clinical presentation
  

• Develop individualized treatment plans that align with residents’ psychiatric, medical, and psychosocial needs
  

• Collaborate with nursing staff, physicians, medical directors, social workers, therapists, and interdisciplinary care teams
  

• Provide behavioral health recommendations to facility staff to support continuity of care
  

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

• Communicate effectively with residents, families, guardians, and facility teams
  

• Support quality psychiatric care delivery within the nursing home / LTC setting
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
  

• Active and unrestricted New York State Nurse Practitioner license
  

• DEA registration preferred or ability to obtain
  

• Strong clinical judgment and ability to practice independently
  

• Experience working with geriatric, elderly, long -term care, skilled nursing, nursing home, behavioral health, psychiatry, or post -acute populations preferred
  

• Prior experience managing dementia, behavioral disturbances, chronic mental illness, or psychotropic medication regimens strongly preferred
  

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  

• Must be comfortable working in skilled nursing facilities / nursing homes / LTC environments
  

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

High earning potential for experienced providers

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Flexible scheduling options

Long -term growth opportunity within an expanding organization