Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Jobs in Colorado
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner jobs in Colorado are concentrated in behavioral health systems, integrated primary care, and community mental health centers, with demand running consistently strong from entry-level through senior and supervisory positions. Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder account for the largest share of openings, anchored by established employers like UCHealth, Centura Health, and Colorado Crisis Services. Child and adolescent psychiatry, substance use treatment, and telepsychiatry are the most in-demand specialties across the state. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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What You’ll Be Doing
As a staff PMHNP with the Adult Outpatient program, you would be providing strength-focused, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive treatment. Creating and sustaining positive, compassionate interactions with patients and providing high-quality care will be central to the work you do. You would conduct assessments, manage cases, and provide supportive therapy with utmost kindness and care. Your attention to detail and problem-solving skills will be important to your responsibilities related to evaluating and managing medications. Furthermore, you’d have the distinct opportunity to work closely with a multidisciplinary team of Health Solutions professionals to serve our community.
Specifically, the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse responsibilities under the administrative and clinical supervision of the Chief Medical Services Officer.
Administrative duties
- Maintains accurate and current records with 100 percent compliance with Health Solutions’ standards.
- Uses electronic health records and electronic prescribing accurately and facilely to promote patient care.
Clinical duties
- Performs psychiatric face to face assessments using format(s) established by Health Solutions. All assessments will include, at a minimum, a psychiatric history, medication history, mental status examination, psychiatric formulation, diagnosis in current DSM format and a written plan of treatment.
- Manages medication face to face follow-up visits for a full caseload of clients.
- Provides as-needed emergency assessment, consultation and medication prescribing based on availability of other providers.
- Consults with other health care providers about relevant psychiatric/medical services and issues and assists in coordination of community-based services for attended clients.
- Collaborates with professional colleagues, including physicians, nurses and clinicians as required by Colorado Statutes related to professional collaborative relationships.
- Provides active involvement in and completion of required quality assessment activities as required of all equivalent providers.
- Attends scheduled medical staff clinical and administrative meetings and accepts assignment to applicable committees as required of all active medical staff.
- As defined in applicable Colorado Statute, the scope of prescriptive authority for prescription drugs and controlled substances shall be limited to those patients within the incumbent’s area of practice, training, and expertise.
- Ability to lift 20 lbs.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Chief Medical Services Officer.
Physical Requirements
- Requires standing, sitting, driving, and walking for prolonged periods of time.
- Occasionally lifts and carries items up to 20 pounds.
- Frequently exposed to stressful or emergent situations.
- Frequently operates a computer and other office equipment to record health data.
- Constantly communicates with clients and others.
- Occasional exposure to communicable diseases and bodily fluids
- Occasionally drives between Health Solutions facilities or for other assigned duties.
- Requires occasional driving in adverse weather conditions.
What You’ll Like About Us
- Competitive pay. $140,000- $145,000 annually - salary based on experience and degree.
- Sign on Bonus of $10,000 ($5,000 upon completion of orientation, and $5,000 after one year of successful employment).
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Generous benefits package. For most positions, includes paid holidays, generous PTO, Subsidized YMCA membership, tuition reimbursement, retirement 403(b), and FSA.
- Insurance: Medical, Dental, and Vision, with low deductibles. Also, Wellness benefits program available.
- EAP, Teladoc, LifeLock, Direct Path, Life and AD&D
- Additional Insurance: FSA, Voluntary Life, Allstate Voluntary benefits
- Childcare subsidy
- Flexible schedule
- Warm and friendly work environment in which staff respect and learn from one another.
- Meaningful work with opportunities to serve our neighbors in Pueblo.
What We’re Looking For—The Must-Haves
- Licensed Advanced Practice Nurse in Colorado in good standing.
- Graduate degree in nursing from an accredited academic institution
- Listed on the Advanced Practice Registry as Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner or Clinical Nurse Specialist.
- Prescriptive authority as defined by applicable state statue.
- Meets all State of Colorado statutory requirements including C.R.S. Title 12 Article 38, as amended and applicable, and Chapters XIV and XV of the Rules and Regulations of the Colorado Board of Nursing, and other applicable State and Federal requirements in effect during employment.
- Experience working successfully with a multi-disciplinary team, especially in an integrated primary care setting.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced primary integrated healthcare practice.
- Experience providing clinical services to patients of all ages.
- Experience and comfort working with a wide range of behavioral health conditions and presentations to include substance use disorders.
- Experience working with severe and persistently mentally ill adults and experience with various behavioral health diagnoses including substance use.
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Exceptional time management skills.
- Flexibility and ability to easily adapt to change.
- Well-developed documentation skills.
- Computer proficiency.
- Valid Colorado driver’s license, and access to reliable transportation during work hours.
- CPR/First Aid
What We’d Like to See in You—The Nice-to-Haves
- Minimum two years supervised experience with use of drugs used within the scope of normal psychiatric practice.
- Advanced knowledge of principles of psychiatric nursing.
- Advanced knowledge of medication/medication and medication/food interactions.
- Advanced knowledge and experience in psychiatric assessment and ongoing psychopharmacological treatment.
- Spanish language skills
Health Solutions expects all staff to
- Adapt to change in the workplace and use change as an opportunity for innovation and creativity.
- Take ownership of problems, brainstorm problem resolutions, and use sound judgment in selecting solutions to problems, and demonstrate consistent follow through.
- Possess the job knowledge and skills to perform the fundamental job functions and willingly assume greater responsibility over time regarding the scope of work.
- Inspire and model collaborative teamwork and Human Kindness; and
- Demonstrate accommodation, politeness, helpfulness, trust building, appropriate boundaries, and flexibility in customer service.
Closing date: 12/31/2026 EOE M/F
What You’ll Be Doing
As a staff PMHNP with the Adult Outpatient program, you would be providing strength-focused, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive treatment. Creating and sustaining positive, compassionate interactions with patients and providing high-quality care will be central to the work you do. You would conduct assessments, manage cases, and provide supportive therapy with utmost kindness and care. Your attention to detail and problem-solving skills will be important to your responsibilities related to evaluating and managing medications. Furthermore, you’d have the distinct opportunity to work closely with a multidisciplinary team of Health Solutions professionals to serve our community.
Specifically, the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse responsibilities under the administrative and clinical supervision of the Chief Medical Services Officer.
Administrative duties
- Maintains accurate and current records with 100 percent compliance with Health Solutions’ standards.
- Uses electronic health records and electronic prescribing accurately and facilely to promote patient care.
Clinical duties
- Performs psychiatric face to face assessments using format(s) established by Health Solutions. All assessments will include, at a minimum, a psychiatric history, medication history, mental status examination, psychiatric formulation, diagnosis in current DSM format and a written plan of treatment.
- Manages medication face to face follow-up visits for a full caseload of clients.
- Provides as-needed emergency assessment, consultation and medication prescribing based on availability of other providers.
- Consults with other health care providers about relevant psychiatric/medical services and issues and assists in coordination of community-based services for attended clients.
- Collaborates with professional colleagues, including physicians, nurses and clinicians as required by Colorado Statutes related to professional collaborative relationships.
- Provides active involvement in and completion of required quality assessment activities as required of all equivalent providers.
- Attends scheduled medical staff clinical and administrative meetings and accepts assignment to applicable committees as required of all active medical staff.
- As defined in applicable Colorado Statute, the scope of prescriptive authority for prescription drugs and controlled substances shall be limited to those patients within the incumbent’s area of practice, training, and expertise.
- Ability to lift 20 lbs.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Chief Medical Services Officer.
Physical Requirements
- Requires standing, sitting, driving, and walking for prolonged periods of time.
- Occasionally lifts and carries items up to 20 pounds.
- Frequently exposed to stressful or emergent situations.
- Frequently operates a computer and other office equipment to record health data.
- Constantly communicates with clients and others.
- Occasional exposure to communicable diseases and bodily fluids
- Occasionally drives between Health Solutions facilities or for other assigned duties.
- Requires occasional driving in adverse weather conditions.
What You’ll Like About Us
- Competitive pay. $140,000- $145,000 annually - salary based on experience and degree.
- Sign on Bonus of $10,000 ($5,000 upon completion of orientation, and $5,000 after one year of successful employment).
-
Generous benefits package. For most positions, includes paid holidays, generous PTO, Subsidized YMCA membership, tuition reimbursement, retirement 403(b), and FSA.
- Insurance: Medical, Dental, and Vision, with low deductibles. Also, Wellness benefits program available.
- EAP, Teladoc, LifeLock, Direct Path, Life and AD&D
- Additional Insurance: FSA, Voluntary Life, Allstate Voluntary benefits
- Childcare subsidy
- Flexible schedule
- Warm and friendly work environment in which staff respect and learn from one another.
- Meaningful work with opportunities to serve our neighbors in Pueblo.
What We’re Looking For—The Must-Haves
- Licensed Advanced Practice Nurse in Colorado in good standing.
- Graduate degree in nursing from an accredited academic institution
- Listed on the Advanced Practice Registry as Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner or Clinical Nurse Specialist.
- Prescriptive authority as defined by applicable state statue.
- Meets all State of Colorado statutory requirements including C.R.S. Title 12 Article 38, as amended and applicable, and Chapters XIV and XV of the Rules and Regulations of the Colorado Board of Nursing, and other applicable State and Federal requirements in effect during employment.
- Experience working successfully with a multi-disciplinary team, especially in an integrated primary care setting.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced primary integrated healthcare practice.
- Experience providing clinical services to patients of all ages.
- Experience and comfort working with a wide range of behavioral health conditions and presentations to include substance use disorders.
- Experience working with severe and persistently mentally ill adults and experience with various behavioral health diagnoses including substance use.
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Exceptional time management skills.
- Flexibility and ability to easily adapt to change.
- Well-developed documentation skills.
- Computer proficiency.
- Valid Colorado driver’s license, and access to reliable transportation during work hours.
- CPR/First Aid
What We’d Like to See in You—The Nice-to-Haves
- Minimum two years supervised experience with use of drugs used within the scope of normal psychiatric practice.
- Advanced knowledge of principles of psychiatric nursing.
- Advanced knowledge of medication/medication and medication/food interactions.
- Advanced knowledge and experience in psychiatric assessment and ongoing psychopharmacological treatment.
- Spanish language skills
Health Solutions expects all staff to
- Adapt to change in the workplace and use change as an opportunity for innovation and creativity.
- Take ownership of problems, brainstorm problem resolutions, and use sound judgment in selecting solutions to problems, and demonstrate consistent follow through.
- Possess the job knowledge and skills to perform the fundamental job functions and willingly assume greater responsibility over time regarding the scope of work.
- Inspire and model collaborative teamwork and Human Kindness; and
- Demonstrate accommodation, politeness, helpfulness, trust building, appropriate boundaries, and flexibility in customer service.
Closing date: 12/31/2026 EOE M/F
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What Colorado Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs across Colorado.
- Active Colorado APRN license with psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner certification required
- Master of Science in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice from an accredited program
- Board certification as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner through ANCC or AANPCP
- Current DEA registration and Colorado prescriptive authority for controlled substances
- Experience conducting psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and crisis intervention
- Proficiency with electronic health records systems used in Colorado behavioral health settings
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Colorado?
You become a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Colorado by completing an accredited master's or doctoral nursing program with a psychiatric-mental health specialty, then passing the ANCC or AANPCP board certification exam. After certification, you apply for an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse license through the Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations under the Department of Regulatory Agencies. Colorado also requires a separate application for prescriptive authority before you can independently manage medications.
How much do psychiatric nurse practitioners make in Colorado?
Psychiatric nurse practitioners in Colorado earn a median of about $132,930 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $87,770 for the lowest 10% to over $170,310 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire psychiatric nurse practitioners in Colorado?
Companies currently hiring psychiatric nurse practitioners in Colorado include LifeStance Health, Serenity Healthcare, and InnovAge, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Colorado's mix of large integrated health systems and community behavioral health organizations means openings appear across both hospital-based and outpatient settings statewide.
Which Colorado cities have the most psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs?
Denver, Colorado, and Loveland have the most psychiatric nurse practitioner openings in Colorado. Denver dominates because it hosts the state's largest health systems and behavioral health networks, while Colorado Springs and Boulder generate consistent openings through military-affiliated healthcare facilities, university health services, and regional community mental health centers that draw patients from surrounding rural areas.
Are there remote psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs in Colorado?
Yes, but they're less common than in purely desk-based fields given the clinical nature of psychiatric nursing practice. About 60% of psychiatric nurse practitioner openings tied to Colorado are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, with most of those positions focused on telepsychiatry, medication management follow-ups, and consultative roles rather than initial evaluations or crisis care.
How can I get hired as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Colorado with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is applying to new-graduate APRN residency or fellowship programs, which UCHealth and Centura Health have offered for advanced practice nurses transitioning into behavioral health. Candidates who worked as registered nurses in inpatient psychiatric units, emergency departments, or substance use programs carry a meaningful advantage. Completing your Colorado APRN license and prescriptive authority paperwork before applying, and targeting community mental health centers that explicitly recruit new graduates, significantly improves your chances.
Where can I find and apply to psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs in Colorado?
You can find and apply to psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs in Colorado on Migrate Mate, which lists current Colorado openings from employers across the state. Search the listings for roles that fit your specialty, experience level, and preferred location, then apply directly to the ones that match.
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