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Wellpath
McKinney, Texas

Psychiatrist

PsychiatryIncludes callFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 1mo ago

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.

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

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.

This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

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 a current, unrestricted medical license. Experience with adult populations is required, and corrections experience is preferred.

Qualifications

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

Certifications

DEA LicenseBoard Certification

Key Skills

Psychiatric evaluationPsychotropic medication managementInterdisciplinary collaborationPatient care

Psychiatry — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 48% have no call, 56% require no weekends.

In Texas, the Psychiatry weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$314k (35 salary observations; 182 listings), vs ~$324k nationally (783 salary observations; 3,130 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 Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas 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).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top Psychiatrist Jobs

34 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution30 jobs · 26 employers

11
<$335k
7
$335k-395k
4
$395k-455k
7
$455k-515k
1
$520k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
88% this job
CME allowance
50%
Sign-on bonus
29%
Loan repayment
13%
PSLF eligible
13%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$200-$250/hr
#2

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$320k-$500k
#3

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$320k-$500k
#4

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+ 32 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

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

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,816 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in McKinney

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$392k
Typical market rent
$1,773/mo
Residents’ average commute
28 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
103.1
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Wellpath

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Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Paid Time Off
401k
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program
Life Insurance