Psychiatrist

Join a mission-driven organization with a people-first culture, offering excellent career growth opportunities and the chance to make a daily difference in the lives of overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients.

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved. If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to help society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day, we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion, providing hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling is to serve others, join our mission to provide quality care with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, living our mantra to "Always Do The Right Thing!" Collectively, we do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath serves hundreds of thousands of unique individuals monthly, with a large percentage receiving direct clinical care, including lives saved by Narcan. We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, with best-in-class clinical resources for training, education, and point-of-care support.

How You Make a Difference

The Psychiatrist provides comprehensive psychiatric care to incarcerated patients while supporting mental health and healthcare staff through clinical consultation. This role delivers direct psychiatric services in alignment with professional standards and organizational guidelines, collaborating closely with facility leadership and interdisciplinary teams to ensure consistent and effective psychiatric care. The Psychiatrist supports continuity of care through treatment planning, follow-up, and coordination with mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care while exercising independent medical judgment.
• Monitor psychotropic medications for effectiveness and side effects, adjusting treatment as clinically indicated.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary leadership and care teams to ensure uniform psychiatric and mental health services.
• Complete timely, accurate clinical documentation and participate in required meetings, consultations, and on-call services.
• Support referrals, transfers, crisis intervention, and clinical collaboration with mental health and medical staff.

Requirements

• Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from an accredited university with specialty training in psychiatry.
• Experience providing psychiatric services to an adult population.
• Experience in providing psychiatric services to an adolescent population preferred for youth facility clinical assignments.
• Corrections experience preferred.
• Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the state of practice.
• Board-certified or board-eligible in psychiatry.
• Current DEA registration (unless CPO determines it as optional).
• Current BLS certification.

Benefits

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work-life balance for team members and their families to support physical, mental, and financial well-being, including:

• DailyPay: receive your money as you earn it.
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• Tax-free Health Spending Accounts (HSA).
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts.
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans.