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Wellpath
Bridge City, Louisiana

Psychologist - PT

PsychologistNo callNo nightsPart-Time Prescriptive Authority State

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Job Description

  • You Matter
  • 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

Join Us and Find a Career That Supports

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

Perks and 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 family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing 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

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 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.

How You Make a Difference

The Psychologist is responsible for providing individual and group psychotherapy, conducting psychological testing, and participating in developing, monitoring, and implementing behavioral management plans. They are an active member of the treatment team and provide staff education on psychological issues as needed. The Psychologist is also assigned responsibilities for quality assurance monitoring to ensure the highest level of care for their patients.

Key Responsibilities

Provide clinical and consultation services in compliance with professional standards and facility policies

Deliver direct clinical services, crisis management, psychological testing, and evaluation as required to meet mental health service needs.

Ensure adherence to ethical and professional standards of care and participate in case staffing and quality improvement activities.

Develop and implement goals and objectives for clinical services provided and assist with staff recruitment and selection.

Participate in supervision, staff development, crisis intervention, and other administrative and managerial responsibilities as needed.

  • Additional Details
  • Shift: 8a-4:30p
  • Qualifications & Requirements

Education

Doctorate in psychology and experience with mental health delivery systems

Experience

Significant professional experience in the mental field that indicates knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and psychological evaluation techniques, including psychological assessment instruments

Licenses/Certifications

  • Licensed to practice psychology in the State of employment by the appropriate state licensing agency
  • This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

We Are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

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.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Doctorate in psychology and possess significant professional experience in mental health delivery systems. A valid license to practice psychology in the state of employment is required.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Mental health assessmentTreatment planning

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Psychologist - PT at Wellpath a 6.9 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Psychology — ranked against 1,732 active Psychology listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no night shifts.

Psychologist Career Context

Of the 40 active Psychology listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 48% have no call, 65% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Louisiana is 88.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.8% of Louisiana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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About Wellpath

Hospitals and Health Care
Franklin, Tennessee
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision
Paid time off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company paid life insurance
Health Spending Accounts (HSA)