Remote Part-Time Medical Director of Inpatient Psychiatry

About the role

Serve as the clinical leader for partner inpatient psychiatric service line, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care
Provide guidance and oversight on clinical decision-making, risk management, and patient safety
Partner with hospital and administrative leadership on program development, performance improvement, and operational alignment
Participate in peer review, case review, and quality improvement initiatives
Conduct psychiatric evaluations, admissions, and follow-up visits
Provide daily rounding and medication management for inpatient psychiatric patients
Develop and oversee individualized treatment plans
Guide disposition planning, including admissions, transfers, and discharges
Complete required documentation, including psychiatric evaluations and discharge summaries
Lead or participate in treatment team meetings and case conferences
Collaborate closely with nursing, social work, case management, and hospital leadership
Engage with families and external providers to ensure continuity of care

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for partner inpatient psychiatric service line
• Ensure high-quality, evidence-based care
• Guide disposition planning, including admissions, transfers, and discharges
• Engage with families and external providers to ensure continuity of care
• Collaborate with treatment team meetings and case conferences
• Conduct psychiatric evaluations, admissions, and follow-up visits
• Provide daily rounding and medication management for inpatient psychiatric patients
• Develop and oversee individualized treatment plans
• Complete required documentation, including psychiatric evaluations and discharge summaries
• Participate in peer review, case review, and quality improvement initiatives
• Provide guidance and oversight on clinical decision-making, risk management, and patient safety
• Partner with hospital and administrative leadership on program development, performance improvement, and operational alignment

Requirements

• Board-certified or board-eligible Psychiatrist
• Previous hospital-based Medical Director experience required
• Inpatient Psychiatry medical Director experience preferred
• Unrestricted, independent licensure
• Established and updated CAQH and FCVS profiles
• Treating patients in acute crisis and providing stabilizing treatment in 24/7 settings
• Communicating with patients from various backgrounds and providing culturally competent care
• Experience working with multiple EMRs at the same time
• Advanced technical proficiency, including using hardware (Laptop, camera, monitors), Windows systems, Microsoft software, and EMR software over several years of experience in telehealth

Qualifications

• You thrive in a supportive, collaborative, solutions-oriented, and inclusive environment
• You are interested in being a clinician in a thriving behavioral health care modality
• You are passionate about our mission to transform access to quality behavioral care through innovative applications of technology

Skills

• Advanced technical proficiency, including using hardware (Laptop, camera, monitors), Windows systems, Microsoft software, and EMR software over several years of experience in telehealth

Benefits

• Become eligible for CME credits and FlexTime after 24 hours per week
• Full benefits eligibility begins at 30 hours per week, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for your family as well as employer paid life & long-term disability insurance
• Additional voluntary benefits include short-term disability, voluntary employee, spousal and child life insurance, accident, critical illness, hospital, or confinement insurance and flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA) contributions
• Medical liability coverage

Pay

Compensation details TBD

Schedule

Flexible schedule aligned with hospital needs (e.g. rounding blocks + leadership time)