Psychiatrist Pod Lead

Join a dynamic team as a Psychiatry Pod Lead, providing clinical leadership and direct psychiatric care to patients with serious mental illness, substance use disorder, and dementia. This role involves leading and mentoring a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care. The position offers an opportunity to contribute to the development of behavioral health clinical programming and company culture.

Practice Info

• Provide psychiatric clinical leadership to a designated psychiatry pod (team)
• Lead, mentor, and supervise a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals
• Lead clinical team huddles to ensure the care team is working collaboratively
• 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 the development and implementation of BH clinical programming within the market

Responsibilities

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

Compensation

• $270,000-$300,000 and annual bonus
• Salary $270,000-$300,000
• Performance-based bonuses
• 401k Plan up to 3.5% company match

Benefits

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

Shift & Schedule

• Full-time, 40h/week (anticipate 30h/week direct virtual patient care)
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule (few times per year)

Requirements

• 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
• 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