Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner or Psychiatric Physician Associate​/Assistant - IP Lifespan

Overview

Location:

Westbrook, ME |

Schedule:

Full Time | Shift: Day | Job Category:
Advanced Practice Provider | Req #: 42773 | Date Posted:
Dec 13, 2025

Maine Health Behavioral Health is recruiting for a Psychiatric Mental Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) or Psychiatric Physician Associate/Physician Assistant (PPA) to work in our Life Span position at Spring Harbor Hospital. This is a unique role in the hospital with the opportunity to care for the Life span of Mental Health care. The position provides care on all units within Spring Harbor, which is a standalone 100 bed acute care psychiatric hospital, serving both as an academic center as well as the tertiary mental health hospital in the Maine Health system.

Schedule: The hours are Monday-Friday, 8 AM to 4:30 PM, weekend call 1-6

• Graduate of PA/PMHNP program. For PMHNP must have the ability to treat the life span
• Licenses:
  Current and valid license by respective Maine Licensing body and appropriate associated board certifications
• Current DEA registration
• Meets credentialing criteria defined in Medical Staff By-Laws and associated entity
• 2 years’ experience of acute psychiatric patient care preferred

• Competitive compensation package including sign-on bonus and relocation assistance to qualified candidates, CME expense reimbursement, and malpractice insurance.
• Benefits include Paid Time Off, CME time, retirement options with employer contributions, medical, dental, vision, life/disability coverage, and more.

Maine Health is a not-for-profit integrated health system whose vision is, “Working together so our communities are the healthiest in America.” Maine Health consists of nine local health systems, a comprehensive behavioral health care network, diagnostic services, home health agencies, and 1,700 employed clinicians working together through the Maine Health Medical Group. With approximately 22,000 care team members, Maine Health provides preventive care, diagnosis and treatment to 1.1 million residents in Maine and New Hampshire.

Maine Health offers a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive and competitive benefits, along with programs and resources to meet the diverse needs of our workforce.

Westbrook, Maine offers the best of urban sophistication combined with small-town friendliness. The area provides four-season recreational opportunities, such as skiing, hiking, sailing, and miles of beautiful beaches. Just two hours north of Boston, this is an exceptionally diverse and vibrant community.

Maine Health Behavioral Health (MHBH), a Maine Health member, is Northern New England’s leading integrated behavioral healthcare system, serving predominantly southern, western, central, and Mid-Coast Maine. It is composed of southern Maine’s only nonprofit psychiatric hospital, eight multidisciplinary outpatient clinics, crisis services, crisis stabilization units, partial hospital, and intensive outpatient treatment, as well as four ACT teams. This fully integrated and growing system of behavioral healthcare makes it a regional and national model for treating people with serious mental health issues.

For more information, please contact Donna Lafean, Physician and APP Recruiter at [email protected].

Maine Health policy requires all care team members to be vaccinated, including for influenza, subject to eligibility for medical or religious exemptions which can only be granted in compliance with applicable law.