Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Listed compensation
$300k–$325k
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
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Job Description
What You’ll Do
At PrairieCare, we are committed to delivering exceptional treatment to our patients. As a Psychiatrist, you will play a pivotal role in diagnosing and treating individuals with psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, and medical problems. Your expertise will help guide our interdisciplinary team in providing comprehensive care that aligns with our treatment philosophy.
What You'll Do
Leadership Role: Lead the interdisciplinary team in supporting PrairieCare’s treatment programs, ensuring a holistic approach to mental health care.
Quality Treatment: Deliver high-quality treatment to adults, adolescents, and children with psychiatric and substance use disorders, as well as their families, in accordance with your granted Medical Staff privileges.
Diverse Settings: Provide services across various settings, including hospital, partial hospital, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and residential programs.
Resource Familiarity: Stay informed about follow-up resource services available to adults, adolescents, and children to ensure continuity of care.
Therapeutic Engagement: Conduct individual and family therapy sessions, fostering a supportive environment for healing and growth.
What Makes You a Great Fit
What You Bring
- Licensure: Licensed in the State of Minnesota to practice medicine.
- Training: Successfully completed an accredited Postgraduate Training Residency.
- Certification: Board Certified in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and General/Adult Psychiatry.
- Medical Privileges: Ability to maintain required medical staff privileges and malpractice insurance.
- Knowledge Base: Knowledgeable about adult, adolescent, and child psychiatric disorders, as well as advanced principles of abnormal psychology.
- Confidentiality: Ability to maintain information as highly confidential.
Documentation Skills: Ability to clearly summarize pertinent clinical information via written correspondence and medical record documentation.
Technical Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, and able to access and use intranet sites as necessary.
- Adaptability: Ability to smoothly and rapidly shift between dissimilar tasks.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
- Crisis Management: Ability to react quickly and calmly as part of a team to handle volatile and potentially emergency situations, making effective decisions under stress.
- Patient Management: After training, capable of managing disruptive and explosive patients.
- DEA Certification: DEA certification is required.
- Salary range for this position is $300,000k to $325,000k, depending on education and experience.
- Signing Bonus & Relocation Allowance offered.
Additional Details
Excellent career opportunity for a C&A Psychiatrist to provide services for Children and Adolescents within an Inpatient setting.
Key Responsibilities
The psychiatrist will lead an interdisciplinary team to provide high-quality mental health and substance use disorder treatment across various clinical settings. Responsibilities include conducting individual and family therapy, managing patient care, and ensuring continuity of services.
Requirements
Candidates must be licensed in Minnesota, board-certified in both Child & Adolescent and General/Adult Psychiatry, and have completed an accredited residency. Proficiency in clinical documentation, crisis management, and maintaining medical staff privileges is required.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Psychiatry — Physician Career Context
The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$313k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $317k in an average-cost state. 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 60% are remote, 64% have no call, 70% require no weekends.
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | $300k–$325k | Psychiatry median $338k (middle half $327k–$369k)24 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$317k in purchasing power | Minnesota index 98.6 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Psychiatry listings in Minnesota | 45 active | 1,863 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 60% remote · 64% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | sign-on bonus | Minnesota physician listings (all specialties): 14% state a sign-on bonus · 24% offer loan repayment610 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| Psychiatry hiring demand | #27 of 28 specialties | postings stay open a median 34 daysWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 728 postings, 654 closed |
| New Psychiatry listings | 1,316 in the last 30 days | 923 the 30 days before (+43%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Psychiatry pay trend | −2.9% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
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