Psychiatric Physician Assistant

You Matter

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities

Join us and find a career that supports:

• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training

Perks and Benefits

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:

• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service. 

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan. 

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

How you make a difference

The Psychiatric Physician Assistant provides a full range of psychiatric services to incarcerated patients in accordance with state scope of practice and supervisory protocols. This role delivers direct psychiatric care while also offering clinical consultation to mental health and healthcare staff. The position works within established policies, procedures, and state guidelines to support consistent and effective psychiatric services. Clinical consultation and supervision are obtained as required based on jurisdictional supervisory practice requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care while exercising independent medical judgment within professional standards.
• Monitor and manage psychotropic medications, including effectiveness, side effects, and required psychiatric follow-up.
• Collaborate with mental health, medical, and administrative teams to ensure consistent psychiatric and mental health services.
• Complete timely, accurate clinical documentation and participate in meetings, consultations, and on-call coverage as needed.
• Support crisis intervention, referrals, transfers, and emergency or involuntary treatment processes in accordance with scope of practice and guidelines.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education

• Master’s degree in physician assistant studies from an accredited university

Experience

• Minimum two (2) years of experience in providing psychiatric services required, with corrections experience in the PPA role preferred.

Licenses/Certifications

• Unrestricted current license as a PA in the state of practice
• Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQ) in Psychiatry from NCCPA preferred
• Current Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) registration (unless Chief Psychiatric Officer determines it as optional)
• Current BLS certification

This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer