Locums Psychiatrist
Listed compensation
$200-$205/hr
Listing transparency3 of 6 stated
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- Employment & setting
- Contract
- Call expectations
- Includes call
- Weekends
- No weekends
Job Description
We have an opportunity for a skilled Psychiatrist to provide locum tenens coverage.
Schedule
- Monday-Friday 8a-5p
- Call: On call shifts 2 weekend calls per month; weekend call is Friday after 5 PM to Monday morning at 8 AM
- While client prefers full time availability, we will get consideration for 2 week/month players
- Provider should be willing to work major holidays or at least some of them: Thanksgiving, XMas, New Years Day
Additional
- Patient Population: General Adult, mood disorders- tends to be more on the acute end of the spectrum, no neurodivergent population on this unit
- Patient Census: 22-bed unit, plan for 2 Mds on unit per day, so 10-11 patients per MD per day
- Support staff: team environment, solid support staff from nursing to advanced practitioners, therapists on unit too and any other service providers required per patient needs.
- EMR: Sunrise
- Board Certification highly preferred
Key Responsibilities
The Psychiatrist will provide locum tenens coverage for a 22-bed unit, managing a patient census of 10-11 patients per day. Responsibilities include providing clinical care for general adult patients with mood disorders and participating in on-call rotations.
Requirements
The candidate should be a skilled Psychiatrist with the ability to work a Monday-Friday schedule and participate in weekend on-call shifts. Board certification is highly preferred for this role.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Locums Psychiatrist at Millersource a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Psychiatry — ranked against 1,777 active Psychiatry listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
Psychiatry — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 52% are remote, 46% have no call, 64% require no weekends.
Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 5.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Maryland is 105.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$421k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $401k in an average-cost state. 62.9% of Maryland clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Listing-based score
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- No weekends
- Includes call
Living in Baltimore
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $203k
- Typical market rent
- $1,802/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 29 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 104.5
- State income tax
- Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.