Psychiatrist - PT Onsite (8 hours)

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities

 

• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training

 

 

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

 

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan. 

 

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

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. The position collaborates 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.

• →Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care while exercising independent medical judgment.
• →Monitor psychotropic medications for effectiveness and side effects and adjust 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.

Education

• Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from accredited university with specialty training in psychiatry.

Experience

• 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.

Licenses/Certifications

• 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

 

This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.

 

We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.

 

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.