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Tower Behavioral Health
Reading, Pennsylvania

Adult Psychiatrist

PsychiatryIncludes weekendsFull-Time

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Job Description

  • Now Hiring: Full-Time Inpatient Psychiatrist - Adult
  • Tower Behavioral Health | Reading, Pennsylvania
  • New Graduates and Experienced Psychiatrists Encouraged to Apply

Tower Behavioral Health is seeking a Full-Time Inpatient Psychiatrist to provide coverage for our adult and adolescent inpatient psychiatric units. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing behavioral health organization dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate, and evidence-based psychiatric care.

Tower Behavioral Health is a 181-bed behavioral healthcare system committed to supporting patients through a comprehensive continuum of care. Our state-of-the-art inpatient psychiatric hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania provides acute psychiatric treatment in a safe, structured, and therapeutic environment.

We embrace a patient-centered, recovery-oriented approach and foster collaboration among psychiatry, nursing, social work, psychology, and allied health professionals to achieve exceptional clinical outcomes.

Position Overview

The Inpatient Psychiatrist will provide psychiatric services for hospitalized adult and adolescent patients during weekends, ensuring continuity of care, medication management, treatment planning, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This role benefits from established weekday provider support and structured patient handoffs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Conduct psychiatric evaluations and assessments for inpatient adults and adolescents
  • Manage psychotropic medications and treatment interventions
  • Develop and update individualized treatment plans
  • Participate in interdisciplinary treatment team meetings
  • Complete timely and accurate clinical documentation
  • Coordinate care with nursing, therapy, social work, and medical staff
  • Ensure compliance with all regulatory, accreditation, and organizational standards
  • Provide clinical leadership and support for patient-centered care initiatives

Qualifications

  • MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school
  • Board Eligible or Board Certified in Psychiatry
  • Active Pennsylvania medical license or ability to obtain
  • DEA registration or ability to obtain
  • Interest or experience working with adult and adolescent populations
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • New graduates welcome to apply

Why Join Tower Behavioral Health?

  • Full-Time employed opportunity
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • Collaborative multidisciplinary team environment
  • Modern, state-of-the-art behavioral health facility
  • Strong administrative and clinical support
  • Commitment to physician engagement and quality patient outcomes
  • Opportunity to treat both adult and adolescent populations

If you are passionate about providing exceptional inpatient psychiatric care and are looking for a supportive organization that values clinical excellence and teamwork, we encourage you to apply today.

Responsibilities

Summary

  • Responsible for providing clinical services to patients at the facility.
  • Practice within medical protocols defined by federal and state regulations, as well as by corporate, facility policy or procedures.
  • Review medical information on patients to ensure medical stability and to offer medical recommendations.
  • Evaluate patients for mental, emotional or behavioral disorders.
  • Treat or direct treatment of patients, utilizing a variety of psychotherapeutic methods and medications.
  • Review and complete medical information for individual care plans, documents services and information in a timely manner.
  • Maintain confidential documentation, compliance and billing in accordance with the policy and procedures.

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required.
  • One or more years’ post graduate degree practice preferred.
  • Licensed in the state in which the facility(s) operate.

Licenses/Certifications

Board Certification in Psychiatry

Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working.

Our Comprehensive Treatment Network

~23,500 Employees · ~11,400 Beds

  • 258 Locations
  • 38 States
  • 1 Network

As a leading provider of behavioral healthcare services in the United States and Puerto Rico, Acadia Healthcare operates 258 treatment facilities across 38 states. Our network of treatment facilities offers multiple levels of care for various behavioral health and substance use disorders. At Acadia, our primary goal is to meet patients where they’re at in their treatment process. We do this by providing a multitude of levels of care, including detoxification, residential treatment for substance use, residential treatment for dual diagnosis, acute psychiatric inpatient hospitalization, medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services, and an array of outpatient programming options, ranging from partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) and intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) to traditional outpatient services. Our expansive network of treatment facilities creates greater access to care, reduces the stigma associated with mental illness and substance use, and offers those in our communities a safe environment in which to receive the treatment they need.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.

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Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Psychiatric evaluationPsychotropic medicationPatient assessmentCrisis interventionRegulatory compliance

Psychiatry — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 32% are remote, 58% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

In Pennsylvania, the Psychiatry weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$363k (62 salary observations; 670 listings), vs ~$314k nationally (1,811 salary observations; 6,859 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

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).

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 7.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

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Salary Distribution28 jobs · 23 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks23 jobs

401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
65%
Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
17%
Relocation assistance
9%

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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 1,864 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Reading

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$272k
Typical market rent
$1,439/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 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.

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About Tower Behavioral Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Reading, PA
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation and benefits package
Malpractice coverage
Strong administrative and clinical support