Collaborative Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)

About Us InStride Health’s mission is to deliver specialty anxiety and OCD care that works for every kid, teen, young adult, and family who needs it. Through this mission, we are expanding access to insurance-based care, increasing engagement in treatment, and improving treatment outcomes. We are doing this by combining research-backed clinical care and innovative technology to eliminate the major problems with care today: difficulty finding providers, months of waiting to be seen, arduous onboarding processes, and inconsistent use of evidence-based therapies and outcomes tracking.

Our vision is to become the nation’s most trusted provider of pediatric anxiety and OCD care. Team InStride Health: Our Core Values Give Heart : We lead with heart, treating patients and their families the way we want our loved ones to be treated. Work Smart : We find smarter ways to solve hard problems and fix the broken mental health system by leveraging technology, diversity of thought, and innovation.

Have Humility : We leave our egos at the door, empowering our team to collaborate, celebrate diversity, and adopt a growth mindset. Embrace Community: We all belong. We are in this together, and we never worry alone.

We believe in each other and recognize that every voice matters.

About The Role

: The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) at InStride is responsible for providing high-quality psychiatric treatment to our patients, with a specialized focus on children, adolescents, and young adults navigating anxiety and OCD. In this role, the PMHNP focuses on conducting clinical follow-up visits and providing ongoing medication management to support continuous patient progress. Operating within an interdisciplinary, physician-supported care model, the PMHNP works in close partnership with Board-Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists (MD/DO) and a dedicated multidisciplinary team.

This role relies on a strong collaborative relationship to optimize clinical workflows, ensuring the PMHNP is backed by dedicated medical oversight while independently executing standardized, evidence-based workflows for routine follow-up care within the collaborative protocol. The PMHNP creates and maintains a professional, friendly atmosphere for patients, families, InStride staff, and referring providers, and demonstrates a commitment to InStride Health’s Mission and Core Values.

Key Responsibilities

Direct Clinical Care: In active collaboration with, and under the supervision of, an InStride Child Adolescent Psychiatrist, and in compliance with InStride policies, procedures, and all applicable regulations, provides direct clinical care in the form of evidence-based psychiatric treatment. This consists of conducting psychiatric follow-up visits and ongoing psychopharmacological management to monitor symptoms and adjust treatment as needed for children, adolescents, and young adults. At the discretion of the medical director and collaborating psychiatrist, the PMHNP could also complete intake evaluations.

Physician-NP Collaboration: Participates in a formal joint-practice model with a supervising child and adolescent psychiatrist, engaging in routine case consultations, joint care planning for complex presentations, and proactive communication to ensure a seamless continuum of medical oversight. , laboratory results, EKGs, vital signs, and other pertinent measures) in conjunction with prescribed medications to ensure ongoing pharmacological safety. Cross-Specialty Collaboration: Effectively and proactively communicates the complex treatment needs of patients across multiple medical and therapeutic specialties.

Collaborates closely with primary care physicians/pediatricians, outpatient clinicians, and both internal and external medical teams to ensure highly coordinated patient care.