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West Reading, Pennsylvania

Psychiatry - Outpatient Psychiatrist

PsychiatryFull-Time

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Job Description

Assumes overall clinical responsibility for monitoring patient treatment and staff delivery of clinical services. Provides psychiatric and medical assessment and treatment, clinical supervision, education, and training.

Work is performed under the direction of the Chair, Department of Psychiatry, and is subject to review for adherence to best-practice and evidence-based psychiatric principles and techniques through utilization review, case reports, observation, and evaluation of results.

Qualifications

Education Requirements

Vocational/Technical Degree

Experience

Relevant Experience

Certification and Licensure

  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or American Osteopathic Certification
  • PA Medical Physician and Surgeon License

Required Skills

  • Dictation and Transcription Skills
  • Excellent Communications Skills
  • Excellent Interpersonal Skills

Key Responsibilities

The psychiatrist is responsible for monitoring patient treatment and providing comprehensive psychiatric and medical assessments. They also provide clinical supervision, education, and training while ensuring adherence to evidence-based psychiatric principles.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Psychiatric assessmentCommunication skillsEvidence-based practiceCase reporting

Psychiatry — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 52% are remote, 36% have no call, 44% require no weekends.

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 12.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution29 jobs · 24 employers

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<$315k
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$315k-380k
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$445k-510k
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$520k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
75%
CME allowance
58%
Sign-on bonus
42%
Loan repayment
25%
Relocation assistance
13%

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Work-life snapshot

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

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,759 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in West Reading

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$246k
Typical market rent
$1,904/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
97.1
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Reading, PA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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