Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner

Founded in 1977 as the Senior Care Action Network, SCAN began with a simple but radical idea: that older adults deserve to stay healthy and independent. That belief was championed by a group of community activists we still honor today as the “12 Angry Seniors.” Their mission continues to guide everything we do.

Today, SCAN is a nonprofit health organization serving more than 500,000 people across Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington, with over $8 billion in annual revenue. With nearly five decades of experience, we have built a distinctive, values-driven platform dedicated to improving care for older adults.

Our work spans Medicare Advantage, fully integrated care models, primary care, care for the most medically and socially complex populations, and next-generation care delivery models. Across all of this, we are united by a shared commitment: combining compassion with discipline, innovation with stewardship, and growth with integrity.

At SCAN, we believe scale should strengthen—not dilute—our mission. We are building the future of care for older adults, grounded in purpose, accountability, and respect for the people and communities we serve.

The Job

The Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner, Integrated Care Delivery (NP-ICD), provides high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health care to complex Medicare Advantage members within the Embrace integrated care model.

This role is responsible for behavioral health assessments, diagnoses, treatment planning, psychotropic medication management, member and caregiver education, and coordination with the multidisciplinary care team.

The Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner works closely with primary care providers, psychiatric consultants, case management, social work, pharmacy, caregivers, and community resources to improve access, member stability, continuity of care, and clinical outcomes while helping prevent avoidable acute care events.

You Will

• Behavioral Health Assessment and Treatment: Conduct comprehensive behavioral health and psychiatric assessments, including clinical history, mental status examination, medication reconciliation, diagnostic evaluation, and safety-risk assessment. Diagnose and manage behavioral health conditions within the nurse practitioner scope of practice and develop individualized, evidence-based treatment plans. Provide short-term behavioral health treatment, psychoeducation, supportive interventions, and discharge or aftercare planning. Apply risk stratification and appropriate care intensity for members with mild, moderate, or severe behavioral health needs.
• Psychotropic Medication Management: Prescribe, monitor, and optimize psychotropic medications in accordance with licensure, furnishing authority, evidence-based guidelines, and organizational protocols. Monitor medication effectiveness, adherence, adverse effects, laboratory needs, drug interactions, and clinical follow-up. Collaborate with primary care providers, psychiatric consultants, and pharmacy resources when treatment complexity requires additional consultation or escalation.
• Integrated Care and Care Coordination: Partner with primary care providers, case managers,LCSWs, Community Health Workers, pharmacists, caregivers, and community resources to support whole-person care. Participate in multidisciplinary case conferences, psychiatric rounds, high-risk case reviews, and care-planning discussions. Coordinate timely follow-up after emergency department visits, hospitalizations, psychiatric admissions, or other significant changes in condition. Ensure referrals, treatment recommendations, and follow-up needs are communicated and completed across the care continuum.
• Crisis Assessment and Escalation: Assess for suicide risk, violence risk, grave disability, acutepsychosis, medication-related concerns, and other urgent behavioral health conditions. Initiateappropriate safety planning, consultation, emergency escalation, and linkage to higher levels ofcare when clinically indicated. Communicate urgent changes in condition to the appropriateclinical, operational, and caregiver stakeholders.
• Member and Caregiver Engagement: Provide culturally responsive and trauma-informed education regarding diagnoses, treatment options, medications, warning signs, coping strategies, and available resources. Use shared decision-making and motivational approaches to support treatment engagement, adherence, member goals, and caregiver understanding. Serve as a clinical resource to members, families, caregivers, and facility or community staff within applicable privacy requirements.
• Quality, Documentation, and Compliance: Maintain accurate, complete, and timely clinicaldocumentation in the electronic health record and other designated systems. Practice inaccordance with HIPAA, behavioral health confidentiality requirements, Medicare Advantagestandards, scope-of-practice requirements, and organizational policies. Support clinical qualityimprovement, chart review, care-gap closure, medication safety, and outcome-monitoring activities. Maintain professional competence through continuing education, evidence review, and required licensure and certification.
• Organizational Collaboration and Innovation: Identify workflow and care-delivery opportunities that improve behavioral health access, quality, efficiency, member experience, and continuity of care. Collaborate with clinical and operational leaders in the development and refinement of behavioral health workflows, protocols, and escalation pathways. Use electronic health record, virtual-care, care-management, and reporting tools to support coordinated and accessible care.
• Actively support and advance SCAN’s vision, mission, and strategic goals.
• Other duties as assigned.
• We seek Rebels who are curious about AI and its power to transform how we operate and serve our members.

Your Qualifications

• Graduate or Advanced Degree required from an accredited school of nursing
• Active, unrestricted California Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner licenses; a furnishing number and prescribing authority are required.
• National board certification appropriate to the role is also required.
• 3+ years of recent nurse practitioner experience, including behavioral health assessment and psychotropic medication management.
• Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification strongly preferred.
• Experience serving older adults, complex Medicare Advantage populations, members with serious mental illness, dementia-related behavioral symptoms, or members receiving integrated behavioral health care preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of psychiatric assessment, differential diagnosis, psychopharmacology, treatment planning, and clinical monitoring.
• Ability to evaluate urgent behavioral health risk and activate appropriate safety, consultation, or emergency escalation pathways.
• Knowledge of integrated behavioral health, collaborative care, care transitions, and community-based resources for older adults.
• Ability to work effectively with physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, case managers, caregivers, and external partners.
• Strong documentation, organization, prioritization, time-management, and caseload-management skills.
• Knowledge of and ability to maintain HIPAA and applicable behavioral health confidentiality requirements.
• Technology proficiency and openness to new tools that improve member care, access, documentation, and workflow efficiency.

Tuberculosis Screening Policy

To ensure the health and safety of our members, if you are selected for this position, your job offer with SCAN will be contingent on providing proof of Tuberculosis screening upon hire or providing proof of a negative screening within the last year.

If you have a disability/medical reason or sincerely held religious belief that prevents you to provide information required in this policy, SCAN will initiate and engage in the interactive process to evaluate what, if any, reasonable accommodations may be available.

What’s in it for you?

• Base salary range: $125,400.00 to $215,975 annually
• Quarterly Bonus Program
• Work Mode: Onsite / Field Based in Southern California
• Robust Wellness Program
• Generous paid-time-off (PTO)
• Eleven paid holidays per year, plus 1 floating holiday, plus 1 birthday holiday
• Excellent 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with employer match and contribution
• Robust employee recognition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• An opportunity to become part of a team that makes a difference to our members and our community every day!

We're always looking for talented people to join our team! Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply now!

At SCAN we believe that it is our business to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects our community through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more.

SCAN is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action workplace.

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