- 7
- open roles, live count
- 4.4
- Google rating
On the floor
What the day-to-day looks like
Benefits
As Headway operates a platform model for independent psychiatric nurse practitioners rather than traditional employment, standard employee benefits packages may not apply. Benefits may instead relate to practice support, credentialing assistance, insurance panel access, and administrative tools.
The city
Living in San Diego, CA
San Diego pairs year-round beach weather with a laid-back outdoor lifestyle that makes it easy to trade scrubs for surfboards after a shift. Balboa Park offers trails and museums, while neighborhoods like Hillcrest give nurses walkable dining and nightlife options.
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- 12% above the national average
- BEA index 111.9 (100 = national)
- Median gross rent
- $2,313/mo
- rent and tenant-paid utilities
- Median household income
- $108,077/yr
- all local households, not nurse pay
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024
Who they are
Headway is a mental health technology company founded in 2019 by Andrew Adams, headquartered in New York with additional offices including San Francisco.
More about Headway
The company operates a platform that connects mental health providers, including psychiatric nurse practitioners, with patients, with the goal of building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access. Headway has grown from a small startup to over 700-800 employees. For nursing professionals, specifically licensed psychiatric nurse practitioners, Headway offers a platform to start or grow a private practice on flexible terms rather than traditional W-2 employment. The company positions itself as enabling providers to build their practice 'on your terms,' suggesting an independent practitioner model rather than a traditional clinical employer relationship.
Headway's mission is to make high-quality mental health care accessible to everyone. The company operates on 'cultural principles' that were established at founding and recently underwent a 'refounding' process to update them as the company scaled. These principles are described as promises about how team members show up, work together, and keep patients and providers at the center of everything they do. The organization emphasizes ambition, evolution, and maintaining focus on provider and patient needs as it grows.
Why nurses stay
How they describe the culture
What nurses say in reviews
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The good
- Flexible private practice model for psychiatric nurse practitioners
- Mission-driven organization focused on mental healthcare accessibility
- Platform handles administrative overhead for independent providers
- Fast-growing company with a startup culture
- Provider- and patient-centered cultural principles
The hard parts
- Not traditional nursing employment — independent practitioner model may lack standard employee benefits
- Relatively young company (founded 2019) with evolving culture and processes
- Limited publicly available information specific to nurse practitioner experience
- Focus is primarily on mental health/psychiatric services, limiting scope for other nursing specialties
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