Psychiatrist Pod Lead ($270k-300k and annual bonus)

This is a remote position.

Job Description:

Psychiatry Pod Lead

• Provide psychiatric clinical leadership to a designated psychiatry pod (team), ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care to patients with SMI, SUD, and dementia.

• Lead, mentor, and supervise a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals

• Lead clinical team huddles to ensure the care team is working collaboratively toward improving the lives and clinical outcomes of patients

• Provide clinical support to the BH team, who will be providing short-term psychotherapy, supporting caregivers, coordinating transitions of care, and connecting patients to community-based organizations and agencies

• Provide regular supervision and support to the respective pod psychiatric nurse practitioners

• Conduct regular case reviews, peer supervision sessions, and provide constructive feedback to ensure professional development and adherence to best practices.

• Serve as a key liaison between the psychiatric pod and other departments, including primary care, chronic care management, and community services.

• Collaborate with PCPs, as well as patients’ other providers, to coordinate treatment and help address co-occurring physical health conditions

• Contribute to constructing the psychiatrist’s role within the company, including contributing to company culture and serving as an ambassador for the company’s mission.

• Contribute to the development and implementation of BH clinical programming within the market, with an eye toward refining processes that allow the company to scale

Direct Psychiatric Care

• Manage the psychiatric care of a panel of patients, including diagnostic assessments, treatment planning, medication management, and crisis intervention when needed.

• Ensure continuity of care by monitoring patient progress, adjusting treatment plans as necessary, and ensuring follow-up care is provided.

• Use outcome measurement tools during the course of treatment to help patients and the treatment team track progress.

• Implement and monitor clinical protocols and guidelines that enhance the quality of psychiatric care.

• Support the recruitment process, interview candidates, and provide input in the hiring process, in addition to supporting clinicians' onboarding and ongoing training

• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule (few times per year)

• Full-time, 40h/week (anticipate 30h/week direct virtual patient care)

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Requirements

Qualifications:

• A Medical Degree (MD or DO) and Board certification in Adult Psychiatry are required

• Active medical licensures in the states of practice, Florida and Texas, and other states, as services are scaled nationally

• Additional board certification in Geriatric Psychiatry, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, and Addiction Psychiatry is preferred.

Experience:

• Strong knowledge of psychiatric conditions, treatment modalities, and current best practices in the field.

• Experience treating patients with serious mental illness (preferred: experience treating seniors) and comfort managing patients with complex medical and psychosocial needs.

• Leadership experience in clinical psychiatry with proven experience leading, managing, or supervising multidisciplinary teams.

• Telehealth experience

• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience supervising psychiatric nurse practitioners

• Experience supervising a multidisciplinary team of providers

• Experience working in a collaborative care model and with care management teams is a plus

• Bilingual (English-Spanish) preferred

Benefits

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Wrap around administrative support (medical assistants, documentation and AI scribe, billing, etc.)

• Retirement savings plan (401k) Plan up to 3.5% company match

• Low-cost benefits package for employee and dependents ( medical/ dental/ vision/ STD/ Life Insurance)

• Generous paid vacation and sick leave

• 9 paid holidays throughout the year with (2) additional flex holidays .. 11 in total!

• CME PTO and CME funds for continued education

• Full licensure and board certification maintenance reimbursement

• Performance-based bonuses

• and more!

Originally posted on Himalayas