Psychiatric Nurse Jobs in Maine
Psychiatric Nurse jobs in Maine are concentrated in Portland, Bangor, and Augusta, where behavioral health demand runs from outpatient counseling support to inpatient crisis stabilization and community mental health. Large systems such as MaineHealth, Northern Light Health, and Acadia Hospital consistently hire psychiatric nurses across adult, adolescent, and geriatric specialties. The market is active at every level, from new graduates entering psychiatric units to advanced practice nurses leading assertive community treatment teams. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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About Legion Health
Legion Health is a technology-forward psychiatry company delivering world-class outpatient mental health care while expanding access for patients through insurance.
We are seeking exceptional Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) across the United States who are passionate about evidence-based psychiatry and want the time, support, and clinical autonomy needed to provide exceptional patient care.
Our innovative model combines the stability of a traditional hospital position with the flexibility of a private practice. We prioritize our clinicians' well-being and professional growth, offering a competitive compensation package and fostering a vibrant, collaborative culture.
Quality and patient experience are paramount to us. This means recruiting exceptional providers, championing evidence-based protocols, and displaying compassion in every patient interaction. Our exceptional PMHNPs operate with clinical autonomy, supported by experienced psychiatrists through consults and peer case reviews.
Our vision is to pioneer a new era of medicine by delivering world-class psychiatry. We believe in a future where every person can access the compassionate, high-quality care they need.
About the Role
Practice at the top of your license, from wherever you do your best work. This role is designed for PMHNPs who want meaningful clinical autonomy without having to build and operate a private practice alone.
We are looking for clinically excellent, patient-centered PMHNPs to provide psychiatric care through telehealth. Full-time and part-time positions are available.
Benefits
Legion’s model is built to give clinicians more time for patients, fewer administrative distractions, and the support of a high-caliber psychiatric community.
Flexibility: Set your own schedule for optimal work-life balance.
Work from Home: See patients from the comfort of your home via telehealth.
Significant Administrative Support: You focus on patient care, and we’ll handle scheduling, insurance verification, billing, prior authorizations, pharmacy coordination, etc.
Patient Acquisition: Unlike with a private practice, we’ll work to fill your schedule, so you don’t have to do your own marketing.
Collaborating Physician Coverage: Where applicable, we provide your collaborating psychiatrist and fully cover the costs.
Competitive Pay: We compensate our providers at market-leading rates.
Weekly Pay: We pay our providers every week for immediate financial benefit and planning ease.
Legal Protection: We provide full malpractice insurance coverage.
Clinical Autonomy: We hire the most skilled providers and trust them to do what’s best for patients.
Technical Support: We cover the costs for you to have best-in-class EHR, e-Prescribe, and AI tools.
Credentialing Support: We handle all aspects and costs of credentialing with a large number of insurance plans, including commercial, ACA, and government, ensuring your legal and effective authorization within insurance networks.
Licensure and DEA Coverage: We’ll reimburse you for all fees associated with getting licensed in other states as required by Legion.
Commitment to Responsible Prescribing and High-Quality Care: We have rigorous, evidence-based protocols and provide objective diagnostic tools to ensure responsible and ethical prescriptions of controlled substances.
Community of Clinical Excellence: You will work alongside the most talented PMHNPs and psychiatrists in the world. Our current PMHNPs have trained at some of the country’s most prestigious institutions, including Vanderbilt, UT Austin, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, NYU, and UTHealth Houston.
Opportunities for Professional Growth: As we expand, we intend to promote clinical leadership from the best of our active providers.
Culture of Excellence through Innovation: Actively participate in ushering in a new era of mental health care through superior clinical care and technology.
Resources: We provide premium subscriptions to resources such as UpToDate and Carlat.
Exclusive Events: Engage with your colleagues through exclusive in-person and virtual events.
Responsibilities
Provide excellent patient care for conditions including depression, anxiety, ADHD, insomnia, PTSD, bipolar disorder, etc.
Perform comprehensive psychiatric assessments, including mental-health history, medical history, diagnostic evaluation, and risk analysis.
Create and execute individualized treatment plans that may combine medication management and brief psychotherapy.
Provide compassionate, respectful, and patient-centered care.
Use evidence-based clinical protocols and responsible prescribing practices.
Collaborate with psychiatrists and clinical peers through consultations and case reviews.
Use technology and operational systems effectively to deliver reliable telehealth care.
Qualifications
Active, unrestricted state-issued authority to practice as a PMHNP in at least one U.S. state or jurisdiction.
Strong clinical assessment, diagnostic, and medication-management skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Comfort providing care remotely and using electronic health record systems.
Commitment to patient-centered, compassionate, evidence-based care.
Role Logistics
Location: Fully remote within the United States.
Schedule: Full-time or part-time positions are available.
Compensation: $150K–$300K per year, depending on completed patient-care hours.
Clinical Advisory Board
Legion’s Clinical Advisory Board brings together nationally recognized psychiatrists, physician executives, telepsychiatry pioneers, and primary-care leaders. Working closely with Legion’s medical leadership, they help shape our clinical quality standards, evidence-based care protocols, prescribing safeguards, risk-management practices, and continuous quality-improvement efforts as the company scales.
Members of our Clinical Advisory Board include:
Madhukar Trivedi, M.D. — Psychiatrist; Professor of Psychiatry and Distinguished Chair in Mental Health at UT Southwestern
Alexander Ruvalcaba, M.D. — Psychiatrist; Physician Executive at MultiCare Behavioral Health Network
Jon Kole, M.D. — Psychiatrist; Senior Medical Director at Headspace
Liberty Eberly, D.O. — Psychiatrist; Co-Founder and Former Chief Medical Officer at innovaTel Telepsychiatry
John Lusins, M.D. — Psychiatrist; Founder and President at South Texas Mental Health Associates
Jacqueline Champlain, M.D. — Family Medicine Physician; Lead Physician at WellMed and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
Bring Your Best Clinical Work to Legion
If you are a thoughtful, evidence-based PMHNP who wants the flexibility of remote practice, meaningful clinical autonomy, robust operational support, and a community committed to excellent psychiatric care, we would be excited to learn more about you.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Legion Health is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, contractors, and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
Compensation Range: $150K - $300K
[We show compassion to heal minds.]
About Legion Health
Legion Health is a technology-forward psychiatry company delivering world-class outpatient mental health care while expanding access for patients through insurance.
We are seeking exceptional Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) across the United States who are passionate about evidence-based psychiatry and want the time, support, and clinical autonomy needed to provide exceptional patient care.
Our innovative model combines the stability of a traditional hospital position with the flexibility of a private practice. We prioritize our clinicians' well-being and professional growth, offering a competitive compensation package and fostering a vibrant, collaborative culture.
Quality and patient experience are paramount to us. This means recruiting exceptional providers, championing evidence-based protocols, and displaying compassion in every patient interaction. Our exceptional PMHNPs operate with clinical autonomy, supported by experienced psychiatrists through consults and peer case reviews.
Our vision is to pioneer a new era of medicine by delivering world-class psychiatry. We believe in a future where every person can access the compassionate, high-quality care they need.
About the Role
Practice at the top of your license, from wherever you do your best work. This role is designed for PMHNPs who want meaningful clinical autonomy without having to build and operate a private practice alone.
We are looking for clinically excellent, patient-centered PMHNPs to provide psychiatric care through telehealth. Full-time and part-time positions are available.
Benefits
Legion’s model is built to give clinicians more time for patients, fewer administrative distractions, and the support of a high-caliber psychiatric community.
Flexibility: Set your own schedule for optimal work-life balance.
Work from Home: See patients from the comfort of your home via telehealth.
Significant Administrative Support: You focus on patient care, and we’ll handle scheduling, insurance verification, billing, prior authorizations, pharmacy coordination, etc.
Patient Acquisition: Unlike with a private practice, we’ll work to fill your schedule, so you don’t have to do your own marketing.
Collaborating Physician Coverage: Where applicable, we provide your collaborating psychiatrist and fully cover the costs.
Competitive Pay: We compensate our providers at market-leading rates.
Weekly Pay: We pay our providers every week for immediate financial benefit and planning ease.
Legal Protection: We provide full malpractice insurance coverage.
Clinical Autonomy: We hire the most skilled providers and trust them to do what’s best for patients.
Technical Support: We cover the costs for you to have best-in-class EHR, e-Prescribe, and AI tools.
Credentialing Support: We handle all aspects and costs of credentialing with a large number of insurance plans, including commercial, ACA, and government, ensuring your legal and effective authorization within insurance networks.
Licensure and DEA Coverage: We’ll reimburse you for all fees associated with getting licensed in other states as required by Legion.
Commitment to Responsible Prescribing and High-Quality Care: We have rigorous, evidence-based protocols and provide objective diagnostic tools to ensure responsible and ethical prescriptions of controlled substances.
Community of Clinical Excellence: You will work alongside the most talented PMHNPs and psychiatrists in the world. Our current PMHNPs have trained at some of the country’s most prestigious institutions, including Vanderbilt, UT Austin, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, NYU, and UTHealth Houston.
Opportunities for Professional Growth: As we expand, we intend to promote clinical leadership from the best of our active providers.
Culture of Excellence through Innovation: Actively participate in ushering in a new era of mental health care through superior clinical care and technology.
Resources: We provide premium subscriptions to resources such as UpToDate and Carlat.
Exclusive Events: Engage with your colleagues through exclusive in-person and virtual events.
Responsibilities
Provide excellent patient care for conditions including depression, anxiety, ADHD, insomnia, PTSD, bipolar disorder, etc.
Perform comprehensive psychiatric assessments, including mental-health history, medical history, diagnostic evaluation, and risk analysis.
Create and execute individualized treatment plans that may combine medication management and brief psychotherapy.
Provide compassionate, respectful, and patient-centered care.
Use evidence-based clinical protocols and responsible prescribing practices.
Collaborate with psychiatrists and clinical peers through consultations and case reviews.
Use technology and operational systems effectively to deliver reliable telehealth care.
Qualifications
Active, unrestricted state-issued authority to practice as a PMHNP in at least one U.S. state or jurisdiction.
Strong clinical assessment, diagnostic, and medication-management skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Comfort providing care remotely and using electronic health record systems.
Commitment to patient-centered, compassionate, evidence-based care.
Role Logistics
Location: Fully remote within the United States.
Schedule: Full-time or part-time positions are available.
Compensation: $150K–$300K per year, depending on completed patient-care hours.
Clinical Advisory Board
Legion’s Clinical Advisory Board brings together nationally recognized psychiatrists, physician executives, telepsychiatry pioneers, and primary-care leaders. Working closely with Legion’s medical leadership, they help shape our clinical quality standards, evidence-based care protocols, prescribing safeguards, risk-management practices, and continuous quality-improvement efforts as the company scales.
Members of our Clinical Advisory Board include:
Madhukar Trivedi, M.D. — Psychiatrist; Professor of Psychiatry and Distinguished Chair in Mental Health at UT Southwestern
Alexander Ruvalcaba, M.D. — Psychiatrist; Physician Executive at MultiCare Behavioral Health Network
Jon Kole, M.D. — Psychiatrist; Senior Medical Director at Headspace
Liberty Eberly, D.O. — Psychiatrist; Co-Founder and Former Chief Medical Officer at innovaTel Telepsychiatry
John Lusins, M.D. — Psychiatrist; Founder and President at South Texas Mental Health Associates
Jacqueline Champlain, M.D. — Family Medicine Physician; Lead Physician at WellMed and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
Bring Your Best Clinical Work to Legion
If you are a thoughtful, evidence-based PMHNP who wants the flexibility of remote practice, meaningful clinical autonomy, robust operational support, and a community committed to excellent psychiatric care, we would be excited to learn more about you.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Legion Health is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, contractors, and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
Compensation Range: $150K - $300K
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The qualifications that appear most often in psychiatric nurse jobs across Maine.
- Active Maine RN license issued or recognized by the Maine State Board of Nursing
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited program preferred or required
- Current BLS certification and ACLS certification for inpatient psychiatric settings
- One or more years of psychiatric or behavioral health nursing experience
- Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Certification (RN-BC) from ANCC preferred
- Proficiency with electronic health records systems used in behavioral health settings
Psychiatric Nurse Jobs in Maine: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a psychiatric nurse in Maine?
You become a psychiatric nurse in Maine by earning a nursing degree, passing the NCLEX-RN, and obtaining an active RN license through the Maine State Board of Nursing. Maine participates in the Nurse Licensure Compact, so nurses licensed in compact states may work in Maine under their home-state license. From there, most psychiatric nursing roles require applying within behavioral health units or community mental health centers, with the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Certification from ANCC strengthening your candidacy.
How much do psychiatric nurses make in Maine?
Psychiatric nurses in Maine earn a median of about $86,990 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $74,160 for the lowest 10% to over $106,950 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire psychiatric nurses in Maine?
Maine psychiatric nurse roles are posted by LifeStance Health, Northern Light Health, and MaineHealth and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Maine's behavioral health sector is anchored by integrated health systems and specialized psychiatric facilities, meaning hiring tends to cluster around the same established organizations that operate inpatient units, residential programs, and outpatient clinics statewide.
Which Maine cities have the most psychiatric nurse jobs?
Portland, Bangor, and Scarborough have the most psychiatric nurse openings in Maine. Portland generates the largest volume as the state's most populous city, with major health system campuses and community behavioral health organizations driving consistent demand, while Bangor and Augusta anchor hiring in central and eastern Maine, home to specialized psychiatric facilities and state-affiliated behavioral health programs.
Are there remote psychiatric nurse jobs in Maine?
Yes, but they're rare. About 73% of psychiatric nurse openings tied to Maine are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most bedside and clinical psychiatric nursing roles. The positions most likely to offer remote or telehealth components are psychiatric consultation, care coordination, and telephone triage roles rather than direct inpatient or crisis unit assignments.
How can I get hired as a psychiatric nurse in Maine with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is applying to new-graduate RN residency programs at large Maine health systems such as MaineHealth and Northern Light Health, both of which run structured behavioral health onboarding for nurses without prior psychiatric experience. Candidates coming from med-surg, emergency, or substance use treatment roles have the strongest lateral transition. Holding a current Maine RN license and completing a psychiatric clinical rotation or a crisis intervention training certificate gives your application a measurable edge with Maine hiring managers.
Where can I find and apply to psychiatric nurse jobs in Maine?
You can find and apply to psychiatric nurse jobs in Maine on Migrate Mate, which lists current Maine openings across health systems, community mental health organizations, and specialty behavioral health facilities. Search the listings to find roles that match your licensure level, specialty, and preferred location, then apply directly to the ones that fit your experience and availability.
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