Telepsychiatry Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) - Remote in Missouri
About The Position
Optum Home & Community Care is building an integrated care model to holistically address an individual’s physical, mental, and social needs, helping patients access and navigate care anytime and anywhere. As a team member of the Optum team, in an interdisciplinary care environment, we help patients navigate the health care system and connect them to key support services. This preventive care can help patients stay well at home. We’re connecting care to create a seamless health journey for patients across settings. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Care at Home is a collaborative, population health–focused care delivery model serving Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (DSNP) members—individuals with significant medical, behavioral, and social complexity, including serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUD). In this role, you will partner with an interdisciplinary care team to deliver high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health care. As a Behavioral Health APC (PMHNP), you will play a critical role within an interdisciplinary care team, bringing psychiatric expertise into a home-based and population health model of care. You will support both direct patient care and consultative care. If you have Missouri licensure, you will have the flexibility to work remotely as you take on some tough challenges.
Requirements
- Board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
- Active, unrestricted Nurse Practitioner license with prescriptive authority
- Experience managing complex psychiatric conditions and/or SUD and SMI
- Willingness to obtain multi-state licensure
- Comfort delivering care via telehealth and technology-enabled platforms
- Ability to synthesize complex medical and behavioral health data into actionable care plans
Nice To Haves
- 3+ years of post-certification clinical experience
- Experience in consultation-liaison psychiatry, population health, or integrated care models
- Experience with geriatric, DSNP, or medically complex populations
- Telepsychiatry experience
Responsibilities
- Conduct telehealth-based psychiatric evaluations for patients with serious mental illness and substance use conditions
- Diagnose, treat, and prescribe evidence-based pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions
- Provide bridge stabilization through medication management and follow-up care for high-risk patients
- Work with interdisciplinary care team to ensure connection to community mental health services.
- Act as a behavioral health consultant to an interdisciplinary care team including providers, RNs, and social workers
- Support management of depression, anxiety, SMI, and SUD
- Provide real-time and asynchronous consultation, including treatment recommendations and care planning
- Help triage patients to appropriate levels of care, including specialty mental health and community-based resources
- Support care continuity by partnering with external behavioral health providers and systems of care
- Facilitate engagement in specialty care when needed
- Deliver behavioral health education to interdisciplinary teams managing medically complex patients
- Participate in case conferences, care rounds, and team-based decision-making
- Contribute to a culture of continuous quality improvement and clinical excellence
- Document all patient encounters, consults, and care coordination efforts in the EMR
- Communicate clearly and effectively across care teams and community partners
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
