Remote Acute Care Psychiatrist

PsychiatryFull-Time

Listed compensation

$150-$195/hr

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Job Description

Array Behavioral Care is the nation's leading virtual psychiatry and therapy practice.

As the leading mental health provider, Array is on a mission to transform access to quality, timely behavioral health care through innovative telepsychiatry solutions and services that span the entire care continuum, from the hospital to the home.

Array partners with an extensive network of hospitals, health systems, community healthcare organizations, and payors to improve access and deliver the highest quality of care to patients.

About the Role

Array Behavioral Care is hiring an evening specialist, 100% virtual Psychiatrist to provide measurement-based, culturally humble episodic care to patients in acute crisis across various settings and states.

You will immerse yourself in the buzz of emergency departments, hospital medical floors or crisis stabilization units from the comfort of your own home.

Array Emergency Psychiatrists collaborate with onsite professionals to determine a timely disposition and use evidence-based practices to provide care to vulnerable individuals experiencing mental health crises.

Array will support getting additional state licensure for active, board-certified or board-Eligible Psychiatrists. If you don't see a job posting in a state you are actively licensed in, please feel free to apply.

What You’LL Do

Simultaneously serving multiple emergency rooms, hospital medical floors, and psychiatric crisis programs to evaluate and treat patients in crisis and find the most appropriate and least restrictive level of care

Receiving support throughout your shift by our 24/7 access center who triages cases and makes sure you have what you need to successfully treat each patient

Directing and/or implementing psychotherapeutic treatments and prescribing medication to treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders

Utilizing a collaborative care approach within your partner’s healthcare treatment team

What We’RE Looking For

  • Board-certified or board-eligible Psychiatrist
  • Unrestricted, independent licensure
  • Established and updated CAQH and FCVS profiles
  • Experience providing psychiatric care to all age groups
  • Treating patients in acute crisis and providing stabilizing treatment in 24/7 settings
  • Communicating with patients from various backgrounds and providing culturally competent care
  • Experience working with multiple EMRs at the same time
  • Advanced technical proficiency, including using hardware (Laptop, camera, monitors), Windows systems, Microsoft software, and EMR software over several years of experience in telehealth
  • You thrive in a supportive, collaborative, solutions-oriented, and inclusive environment
  • You are interested in being a clinician in a thriving behavioral health care modality

You are passionate about our mission to transform access to quality behavioral care through innovative applications of technology

Position Logistics

  • 100% remote position
  • Required to have a private office space in home or elsewhere for confidentiality

You will likely be required to work with Array to obtain additional state licensure and DEA licenses. We will support that process and cover the costs and/or reimburse for out-of-pocket expenses.

Compensation and Benefits

The pay range for this role is $150 - $195 an hour. This information reflects the anticipated salary range for this position using current market data. The final offer will be determined based on an individual's skills, years of experience, education, capacity, licenses, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Regardless of hours worked per week, you are eligible to enroll in our 401k, corporate wellness programs and access to our Array’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Beginning at 24 hours per week you become eligible for CME credits and FlexTime, which can be used for any requested time off, including but not limited to vacation, holidays, personal and sick time

Full benefits eligibility begins at 30 hours per week, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for your family as well as employer paid life & long-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits include short-term disability, voluntary employee, spousal and child life insurance, accident, critical illness, hospital, or confinement insurance and flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA) contributions

Medical Liability Coverage

Beware of fraudulent job postings and messages from scammers impersonating Array Behavioral Care employees and Recruiters. The only valid email addresses from Array Behavioral Care will be firstname.lastname@arraybc.com and we will not ask you to download an app onto your phone in order to conduct your interview.

EOE M/V/F/D

Key Responsibilities

The psychiatrist will provide virtual, measurement-based episodic care to patients in acute crisis across emergency departments and crisis units. They will collaborate with onsite healthcare teams to determine appropriate dispositions and implement psychotherapeutic and medication-based treatments.

Requirements

Candidates must be board-certified or board-eligible psychiatrists with an unrestricted, independent medical license. The role requires advanced technical proficiency in telehealth systems and experience treating patients in acute crisis across various age groups.

Qualifications

Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA LicenseBoard Certification

Key Skills

Acute careCrisis interventionPsychiatric evaluationMedication managementEvidence-based practiceElectronic medical recordsEmergency psychiatryClinical documentationPatient assessment

Psychiatry — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 70% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$359k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $324k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Array Behavioral Care holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 78/100, 10 active listings.

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 7.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Remote Acute Care Psychiatrist at Array Behavioral Care 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 21,316 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc.

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Benefits & Perks32 jobs · 17 employers

401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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CME allowance
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Loan repayment
6%
Relocation assistance
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Work-life snapshot

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Better work-life than 50% of Psychiatry listings

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About Array Behavioral Care

Mental Health Care
Chicago, Illinois
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

401k
Corporate wellness programs
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
CME credits (at 24+ hrs/week)
FlexTime PTO (at 24+ hrs/week)
Medical, dental, and vision insurance (at 30+ hrs/week)
Employer-paid life & long-term disability insurance
Voluntary benefits (short-term disability, life, accident, critical illness, hospital)