Clinical Psychologist- Part Time

Backpack Healthcare; Athens (GA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Backpack Health is seeking a Lead Clinical Psychologist to launch and lead our expanding clinical psychology program through telehealth across multiple states. You will conduct comprehensive evaluations for children and families, establish standards, and supervise staff to build a sustainable service line.

The role combines clinical care with program leadership, including workflow design, quality assurance, and cross-functional collaboration with operations, billing, credentialing, and executive

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in a psychology field from an accredited institution.
• Active and unrestricted psychologist license in at least one state where Backpack Health operates.
• Experience assessing ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other developmental, behavioral, emotional, or cognitive conditions.
• Strong knowledge of standardized psychological testing, diagnostic formulation, report writing, informed consent, test security, and professional ethics.
• Experience working with children, adolescents, and families preferred.
• Supervision experience with Psychological Associates, trainees, or assessment professionals preferred.
• Experience with Medicaid, managed care, telehealth, multi-state practice, payer authorization, or testing reimbursement is a plus.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and enthusiasm for building a new clinical program.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive psychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and other populations served by Backpack Health.
• Evaluate ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other clinically appropriate referral questions.
• Conduct clinical interviews and review records and collateral information from caregivers, schools, providers, and other authorized parties.
• Partner with Clinical, Operations, Billing, Credentialing, and executive leadership to launch and develop the clinical psychology service line.
• Establish referral criteria, assessment workflows, documentation standards, scheduling processes, and quality expectations.
• Develop processes that support efficient, high-quality, and accessible psychological assessment services.
• Monitor assessment volume, reimbursement, staffing needs, expenses, and workflow performance.
• Serve as Backpack Health’s subject matter expert in psychological assessment.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, access, efficiency, and financial sustainability.
• Help identify, recruit, onboard, and develop a qualified Psychological Associate.
• Provide clinical supervision consistent with applicable state laws, licensing requirements, ethical standards, and Backpack Health policies.
• Ensure services remain within each clinician’s training, competence, and permitted scope of practice.
• As the program expands, transition into broader supervision and leadership responsibilities.
• Collaborate with therapists, psychiatric providers, care coordinators, schools, and other members of the care team.
• Participate in quality assurance, clinical audits, utilization review, and corrective-action activities.
• Identify and elevate clinical, operational, regulatory, reimbursement, or staffing risks.

Education

Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, or closely related field

Job description

Lead Clinical Psychologist Build & Lead Backpack Healthcare's Clinical Psychology Program

Multi-State | Telehealth | Maryland, Georgia, Michigan, Virginia & Illinois

Help Us Build Something Meaningful

Backpack Health is expanding its clinical services and is seeking an experienced Lead Clinical Psychologist to launch and lead our clinical psychology program.

This is a unique opportunity for a psychologist who wants to do more than provide clinical care—you’ll have the opportunity to build a program from the ground up , beginning with comprehensive psychological evaluations and growing into a broader leadership and supervision role.

You’ll provide high-quality assessments for children, adolescents, and families, including evaluations for ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other developmental, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive concerns . As the program grows, you’ll help establish clinical standards, supervise psychology staff, and shape a sustainable and scalable psychology service line.

• Conduct comprehensive psychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and other populations served by Backpack Health.
• Evaluate ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other clinically appropriate referral questions.
• Conduct clinical interviews and review records and collateral information from caregivers, schools, providers, and other authorized parties.

Build & Lead the Psychology Program

• Partner with Clinical, Operations, Billing, Credentialing, and executive leadership to launch and develop the clinical psychology service line.
• Establish referral criteria, assessment workflows, documentation standards, scheduling processes, and quality expectations.
• Develop processes that support efficient, high-quality, and accessible psychological assessment services.
• Monitor assessment volume, reimbursement, staffing needs, expenses, and workflow performance.
• Serve as Backpack Health’s subject matter expert in psychological assessment.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, access, efficiency, and financial sustainability.
• Help identify, recruit, onboard, and develop a qualified Psychological Associate.
• Provide clinical supervision consistent with applicable state laws, licensing requirements, ethical standards, and Backpack Health policies.
• Ensure services remain within each clinician’s training, competence, and permitted scope of practice.
• As the program expands, transition into broader supervision and leadership responsibilities.

Quality, Compliance & Collaboration

• Collaborate with therapists, psychiatric providers, care coordinators, schools, and other members of the care team.
• Participate in quality assurance, clinical audits, utilization review, and corrective-action activities.
• Identify and elevate clinical, operational, regulatory, reimbursement, or staffing risks.

Compensation will be structured as a 60/40 revenue split based on reimbursed claims for eligible psychological evaluations.

Lead Clinical Psychologist: 60% of revenue actually reimbursed for eligible evaluations.

Backpack Health: 40% retained to support billing, scheduling, credentialing, administrative, and operational expenses.

As the program expands and the role assumes supervision and broader leadership responsibilities, compensation will be evaluated based on supervision workload, assessment volume, reimbursement, operating costs, and overall program performance.

• Billing and claims support
• Scheduling and administrative support
• Credentialing assistance
• Approved payer credentialing expenses

• Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, School Psychology , or a closely related field from an appropriately accredited institution.
• Active and unrestricted psychologist license in at least one state where Backpack Health operates.
• Experience assessing ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder , and other developmental, behavioral, emotional, or cognitive conditions.
• Strong knowledge of standardized psychological testing, diagnostic formulation, report writing, informed consent, test security, and professional ethics.
• Experience working with children, adolescents, and families strongly preferred.
• Previous supervision experience with Psychological Associates, trainees, or assessment professionals preferred.
• Experience with Medicaid, managed care, telehealth, multi-state practice, payer authorization, or psychological testing reimbursement is a plus.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and enthusiasm for building a new clinical program from the ground up .

Why Backpack Healthcare?

This is more than a clinical role—it’s an opportunity to shape the future of psychological assessment at Backpack Healthcare .

You’ll have the clinical autonomy to bring your expertise to the table while partnering with an interdisciplinary team to create a psychology program that is accessible, high-quality, culturally responsive, and built for long‑term growth.

Backpack Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that the strength of our care depends on the diversity and well-being of our team. We celebrate differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and other traits that make each person unique.