Psychiatrist (Part-Time, 8 Hours/Week, Tuesdays)
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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
- Psychiatrist (Part-Time, 8 Hours/Week, Tuesdays)
- 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. Current DEA registration and BLS certification are required, along with experience in psychiatric services.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Psychiatry — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 50% have no call, 56% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Florida is 103.4 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.1% of Florida clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 12.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Psychiatrist (Part-Time, 8 Hours/Week, Tuesdays) 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 20,977 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.
Location & Logistics
Florida has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.
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