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Castle Rock, Colorado

Psychiatrist - M.D. - 1 day weekly

PsychiatryNo callPart-Time

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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
  • One day weekly on-site
  • 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

Requires an MD or DO from an accredited university with specialty training in psychiatry, experience providing psychiatric services to adults, and an unrestricted medical license in the state of practice. Candidates must be board-certified or board-eligible in psychiatry and hold current DEA registration and BLS certification; adolescent psychiatry and corrections experience are preferred.

Qualifications

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

Certifications

DEA LicenseBoard Certification

Key Skills

Psychiatric EvaluationPsychiatric TreatmentMedication ManagementPsychotropic Medication MonitoringInterdisciplinary CollaborationReferral CoordinationTransfer CoordinationAdult Psychiatry

Psychiatry — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 54% are remote, 56% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

In Colorado, the Psychiatry weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$302k (95 salary observations; 252 listings), vs ~$315k nationally (1,854 salary observations; 6,979 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

How many Psychiatry jobs are remote?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.4 / 10 · above average in physician rolesranked against 22,526 Physician roles listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedPsychiatry median $315k (middle half $265k–$360k)115 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Colorado vs national$302k median in Colorado$315k nationally (−4%)95 state / 1,854 national salary observations
Cost of livingColorado index 103.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Psychiatry listings in Colorado30 active1,844 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 54% remote · 56% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Psychiatry pay trend+7.5% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (22,526 Physician roles listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Psychiatrist - M.D. - 1 day weekly 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 22,526 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Top Psychiatrist Jobs

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Salary Distribution

39 jobs · 17 employers
7
<$350k
6
$350k-400k
12
$400k-450k
10
$450k-500k
4
$500k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

33 jobs · 17 employers
401k / retirement match
91% this job
Sign-on bonus
70%
CME allowance
45%
Relocation assistance
12%
Loan repayment
9%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$320k-$500k
#2

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$320k-$500k
#3

Interventional Psychiatrist

$500k
#4

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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 1,839 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, dental, vision insurance
Paid time off
401k
DailyPay (earned wage access)
Tuition assistance and dependent scholarships
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free counseling
Company-paid life insurance
Health Spending Accounts (HSA)

Living in Castle Rock

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$579k
Typical market rent
$2,333/mo
Residents’ average commute
29 min
State income tax
Up to 4.4%
Sources & methodology

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

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