Psychiatrist
Listed compensation
$89k-$142k
The week · per this posting
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Job Description
Job Details:
Job Location: Carpenter House - Staten Island, NY, Position Type: Part Time, Education Level: PhD, Salary Range: $88740.00 - $141780.00Salary, Job Shift: Day, The Psychiatrist provided professional psychiatric evaluations, medication prescription and management, brief therapy, and street outreach too hard to reach, mentally ill, chemically abusing (MICA) and severely and persistently ill (SPMI) homeless clients. The Psychiatrist performs any duties as required to meet the needs of the program and the clients we serve.
Qualifications
The psychiatrist assesses, evaluates and diagnoses all clients with regard to their mental status for the purposes of admittance to Carpenter House. The psychiatrist prescribes, manages and reviews medication. The psychiatrist engages clients in brief therapy as appropriate.
The psychiatrist completes all paperwork used to obtained client entitlements including but not limited to, SSI, SSD, VESISD, NY-NY. The psychiatrist completes all paperwork necessary to the maintenance of client charts, for the purposes of internal and external audits and recordkeeping.
The psychiatrist provides formal and informal, on-going staff training and functioning as a team member, participates in weekly clinical staff meetings. The psychiatrist is available by pager for emergency consultation on a 24-hour basis.
Key Responsibilities
The psychiatrist provides professional psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and brief therapy to homeless clients with mental illness and chemical abuse issues. They also perform street outreach, maintain client charts, and participate in clinical staff meetings.
Requirements
The candidate must hold a PhD and be capable of diagnosing and treating clients with severe and persistent mental illness. They are expected to manage client entitlements and be available for 24-hour emergency consultations.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Psychiatry — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 74% have no call, 80% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$115k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $107k in an average-cost state. 64.6% of New York 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 Psychiatrist at Project Hospitality a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physician roles — ranked against 21,832 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no night shifts.
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- No nights
- Includes call
Living in New York
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $876k≈ 9.9× annual pay
- Typical market rent
- $4,154/mo≈ 56% of gross pay
- Residents’ average commute
- 40 min
- State income tax
- Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.