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Baker, Louisiana

Psychiatrist - Onsite PT - Juvenile

PsychiatryNo callPart-Time

Compensation

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Posted 1mo ago

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 Psychiatrist provides comprehensive psychiatric care to incarcerated patients while supporting mental health and healthcare staff through clinical consultation. This role delivers direct psychiatric services in alignment with professional standards and organizational guidelines.

The position collaborates closely with facility leadership and interdisciplinary teams to ensure consistent and effective psychiatric care. The Psychiatrist supports continuity of care through treatment planning, follow-up, and coordination with mental health services.

Key Responsibilities

Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care while exercising independent medical judgment.

Monitor psychotropic medications for effectiveness and side effects and adjust treatment as clinically indicated.

Collaborate with interdisciplinary leadership and care teams to ensure uniform psychiatric and mental health services.

Complete timely, accurate clinical documentation and participate in required meetings, consultations, and on-call services.

Support referrals, transfers, crisis intervention, and clinical collaboration with mental health and medical staff.

  • Additional Details
  • Details: 8 hours/wk
  • Qualifications & Requirements

Education

Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from accredited university with specialty training in psychiatry.

Experience

  • Experience providing psychiatric services to an adult population.
  • Experience in providing psychiatric services to an adolescent population preferred for youth facility clinical assignments.
  • Corrections experience preferred.

Licenses/Certifications

  • Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the state of practice.
  • Board-certified or board-eligible in psychiatry.
  • Current DEA registration (unless CPO determines it as optional)

Current BLS Certification

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 an MD or DO degree with specialty training in psychiatry and possess an unrestricted medical license. Board certification or eligibility in psychiatry, along with current DEA and BLS certifications, is required.

Qualifications

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

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Psychiatric evaluationPsychotropic medication managementInterdisciplinary collaborationPatient care

Psychiatry — Physician Career Context

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).

Of the 50 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 64% are remote, 54% have no call, 52% require no weekends.

What does the Physician market look like in Louisiana?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.4 / 10 · above average in physician rolesranked against 22,343 Physician roles listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedPhysician median $93k (middle half $88k–$101k)310 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingLouisiana index 88.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Psychiatry listings in Louisiana13 active—live on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
All physician listings in Louisiana256 active22,314 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 64% remote · 54% no call · 52% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedLouisiana physician listings (all specialties): 20% state a sign-on bonus · 5% offer loan repayment256 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 listings1,288 in the last 30 days869 the 30 days before (+48%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Physician pay trend (all specialties)−2.6% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (22,343 Physician roles listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024), WeekdayDoc Hiring Index; as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. Louisiana figures use all physicians: too few Louisiana Psychiatry postings state pay.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Psychiatrist - Onsite PT - Juvenile at Wellpath a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physician roles — ranked against 22,343 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
97% this job
Sign-on bonus
80%
CME allowance
30%
Loan repayment
17%
Relocation assistance
13%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 6.4
Better work-life than 50% of Psychiatry listings

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

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About Wellpath

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

Benefits & Perks

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Dependent Scholarships

Living in Baker

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$175k
Typical market rent
$1,225/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
90.8
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Baton Rouge, LA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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