This part-time role combines telepsychiatry rounding, admissions, follow-up care, and medication management for inpatients in a hospital-based behavioral health unit. The physician also serves in a medical leadership capacity, overseeing clinical quality, standardization, risk management, and interdisciplinary care planning. It is fully remote, with a flexible schedule aligned to hospital rounding and leadership needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct psychiatric evaluations, admissions, follow-up visits, and daily rounding for inpatient psychiatric patients.
- Provide medication management and develop individualized treatment plans.
- Guide disposition planning, including admissions, transfers, and discharges.
- Oversee documentation quality, including psychiatric evaluations and discharge summaries.
- Participate in peer review, case review, quality improvement, and performance improvement initiatives.
- Lead or participate in treatment team meetings and case conferences.
- Collaborate with nursing, social work, case management, hospital leadership, and external providers.
- Provide clinical oversight on decision-making, risk management, patient safety, and complex cases.
Required
- Board-certified or board-eligible Psychiatrist.
- Previous hospital-based Medical Director experience.
- Unrestricted, independent medical licensure.
- Experience caring for patients across all age groups.
- Experience treating patients in acute crisis and stabilizing care in 24/7 settings.
Preferred
- Inpatient psychiatry medical director experience.
- Experience with multiple EMRs.
- Experience in telehealth or telepsychiatry.
- Established CAQH and FCVS profiles.
- Experience with culturally competent care across diverse patient populations.
Benefits & Perks
- 100% remote work.
- Flexible part-time schedule with clinical and administrative time.
- Support for obtaining additional state licensure and DEA licenses, including cost coverage or reimbursement.
- 401(k) eligibility.
- Corporate wellness programs and Employee Assistance Program access.
- CME credits and FlexTime eligibility beginning at 24 hours per week.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance eligibility beginning at 30 hours per week.
- Employer-paid life and long-term disability insurance at 30 hours per week.
- Medical liability coverage.