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Sutter Health
Berkeley, California

Physician, Psychiatry (Berkeley, CA)

Psychiatry 8.0 Work-LifeNo callNo nightsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

  • Opportunity Information
  • Physician, Outpatient Psychiatry/Ambulatory Behavioral Health (Berkeley, CA)
  • Employment Type: Full-Time, 1.0 FTE

Opportunity Information

Sutter East Bay Medical Group (SEBMG) is seeking a Board Certified or Board Eligible Psychiatrist to join our growing Ambulatory Behavioral Health team in Berkeley, California.

Develop a niche practice in reproductive psychiatry and older adult behavioral health with a predictable four-day outpatient schedule and a collaborative multidisciplinary team.

Position Details

Practice Highlights

  • Outpatient psychiatry practice serving adults, with a focus on reproductive psychiatry and older adult behavioral health
  • Tuesday through Friday schedule, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  • Collaborative team of 2 Psychiatrists, 3 Medical Assistants, and 7 Psychotherapists
  • Established program with strong referrals and access to primary care and specialty partners
  • Epic electronic medical record
  • Opportunities for leadership, mentorship, and quality improvement
  • Why You’ll Love This Opportunity
  • Four-day workweek supporting work-life balance
  • Opportunity to build expertise in a growing area of psychiatry
  • Interdisciplinary support that allows physicians to focus on patient care
  • Professional autonomy within a clinician-led, integrated healthcare system

Qualifications

  • Minimum Requirements
  • MD or DO degree
  • Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry
  • Active and unrestricted California medical license, or ability to obtain
  • DEA certification

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience practicing in an outpatient psychiatry setting
  • Commitment to team-based and patient-centered care
  • Interest in quality improvement and behavioral health initiatives

Join Us and Enjoy

  • SEBMG offers a competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits program that may include:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Retirement savings and employer-supported retirement benefits
  • Continuing Medical Education reimbursement and paid CME time
  • Professional dues, subscriptions, and technology reimbursement
  • Professional liability insurance coverage
  • Leadership development opportunities
  • Shareholder opportunity for eligible clinicians

Clinician Wellness Resources

  • Benefits eligibility varies by FTE status and employment classification.
  • Qualified candidates may be eligible for recruitment incentives, relocation assistance, and other employment-related benefits, where applicable

Organization Details

Sutter East Bay Medical Group (SEBMG) is a clinician-led, multispecialty group providing compassionate care across Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Our physicians and advanced practice clinicians are committed to clinical excellence, innovation, and community health.

Community Information

Berkeley is a vibrant and dynamic city that is consummately Californian in setting, international in cultural outlook, and filled with superb restaurants, shops, theaters, and cafes. Berkeley has a creative scene that extends from the performing and visual to the culinary arts.

In the East Bay, Berkeley is a stylish arts and entertainment destination. Berkeley is a town with live theater and music almost every night and its theatrical and cultural venues keep the arts front and center, citywide and year-round. Berkeley is also known for its food.

Berkeley is passionate about cuisine, and it shows on the menus of the city's innovative, influential restaurants, inside the dozens of specialty food stores and stands that line its avenues, and at the trio of weekly farmers markets in town.

With so many cultural and culinary experiences to savor indoors, Berkeley also has many ways to enjoy the great outdoors. The city extends from San Francisco Bay into a forested coastal range, offering hiking and biking trails that run along the bay and up into the city's landmark regional parks.

People can enjoy sailing, rock climbing, kayaking, windsurfing, skateboarding, golf, and beautiful gardens. Berkeley is also careful to honor and celebrate its past with dozens of historic monuments and architectural treasures.

Equal Opportunity Statement

It is the policy of Sutter Health and its partners to provide equal employment for all qualified individuals; to prohibit discrimination in employment because of basis of race, color, creed, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, registered domestic partner status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national origin (including possession of a driver's license issued to individuals who did not present proof of authorized presence in the U.S.), age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military or protected veteran status, political affiliation, pregnancy or perceived pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition, genetic information or any other characteristic made unlawful by local, state or federal law, ordinance or regulation.

We promote the full realization of equal employment opportunities through a positive continuing program within each medical group, company, hospital, department, and service area. Equal employment opportunities apply to every aspect of Sutter's employment policies and practices.

Key Responsibilities

The physician will provide outpatient psychiatric care to adults with a specific focus on reproductive psychiatry and older adult behavioral health. They will work within a collaborative multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality patient care and participate in quality improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA LicenseBoard Certification

Key Skills

Outpatient careTeam-based careEpic EMR

Psychiatry — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 56% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 8.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician, Psychiatry (Berkeley, CA) at Sutter Health a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 25% in Psychiatry — ranked against 1,801 active Psychiatry listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no night shifts.

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Salary Distribution29 jobs · 24 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks22 jobs

401k / retirement match
91% this job
CME allowance
55% this job
Sign-on bonus
45% this job
Loan repayment
9%
Relocation assistance
5% this job

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#3

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 8.0
Better work-life than 80% of Psychiatry listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,801 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call
  • No nights

Living in Berkeley

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.54M
Typical market rent
$2,818/mo
Residents’ average commute
28 min
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Retirement savings and employer-supported retirement benefits
Continuing Medical Education reimbursement and paid CME time
Professional dues, subscriptions, and technology reimbursement
Professional liability insurance coverage
Leadership development opportunities
Shareholder opportunity for eligible clinicians
Clinician wellness resources