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Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

PsychiatryFull-Time

Listed compensation

$300k–$325k

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Posted 1mo ago

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

DEA LicenseBoard Certification

Key Skills

Psychiatric diagnosisInterdisciplinary team leadershipInpatient careIndividual therapyChild and adolescent psychiatry

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.

What does the Psychiatry market look like in Minnesota?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$300k–$325kPsychiatry median $338k (middle half $327k–$369k)24 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$317k in purchasing powerMinnesota index 98.6 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Psychiatry listings in Minnesota45 active1,863 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 60% remote · 64% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentsign-on bonusMinnesota physician listings (all specialties): 14% state a sign-on bonus · 24% offer loan repayment610 active listings, Nov 2026
Psychiatry hiring demand#27 of 28 specialtiespostings stay open a median 34 daysWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 728 postings, 654 closed
New Psychiatry listings1,316 in the last 30 days923 the 30 days before (+43%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Psychiatry pay trend−2.9% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024), WeekdayDoc Hiring Index; as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Psychiatrist Jobs

42 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

42 jobs · 11 employers
8
<$360k
5
$360k-400k
15
$400k-440k
11
$440k-480k
3
$500k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

40 jobs · 11 employers
401k / retirement match
95%
Sign-on bonus
90% this job
CME allowance
30%
Loan repayment
13%
Relocation assistance
13% this job

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Psychiatrist - Adult

LifeStance Health · Des Moines, Iowa

$320k-$500k
#2

Psychiatrist - Child/Adolescent

LifeStance Health · Des Moines, Iowa

$320k-$500k
#3

Outpatient Psychiatrist

$500k
#4

Child Psychiatrist-Outpatient Practice (MD or DO)

$425k-$475k
+ 40 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Psychiatry listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,855 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Brooklyn Park

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$337k≈ 1.1× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,558/mo≈ 6% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.8
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.