Head of Psychiatric Practice

LifeStance Health Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

LifeStance Health is seeking a strategic leader to advance enterprise psychiatric practice excellence. The role develops standards, evidence-based frameworks, and quality initiatives to support clinicians, patients, and operations nationwide.

You will shape Centers of Excellence, establish measurable frameworks, and build pipelines for clinician recruitment and wellbeing. The ideal candidate collaborates across Medical Leadership, Clinical Operations, Quality, Learning & Development, and

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain organizational psychiatric practice standards, treatment frameworks, and clinical expectations across markets and service lines.
• Lead development and implementation of evidence-based psychiatric guidelines, tools, protocols, and practice resources.
• Partner with Medical Leadership, Clinical Operations, Quality, Clinical Excellence, Learning & Development, and Measurement-Based Care teams to improve psychiatric care quality, safety, consistency, and outcomes.
• Identify and address psychiatric practice variation through data review, education, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Build and oversee a comprehensive clinician education and professional development curriculum across specialties and practice settings
• Design and oversee psychiatric provider excellence programs, including onboarding support, competency frameworks, mentoring structures, and ongoing professional development.
• Assist with transition to uniform and singular EHR use across the organization and developing efficient EHR workflows and policies that support the clinical user.
• Support development and review of psychiatric clinical policies, protocols, and standards that align with applicable laws, regulations, and professional expectations.
• Monitor psychiatric quality metrics, patient safety trends, outcomes, and clinical effectiveness measures to inform improvement priorities.
• Serve as a strategic advisor and subject matter expert regarding psychiatric practice trends, provider enablement, clinical risk, and standards of care.
• Lead initiatives supporting physician wellbeing, joy in medicine, and burnout prevention across the enterprise.
• Report on quality metrics, program outcomes, and workforce key performance indicators to the Vice President and C-suite stakeholders

Job description

At LifeStance Health, we believe in a truly healthy society where mental and physical healthcare are unified to make lives better. Our mission is to help people lead healthier, more fulfilling lives by improving access to trusted, affordable, and personalized mental healthcare. Everywhere. Every day. It’s a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in behavioral health.

Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing behavioral health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our clinical team!

Role Overview

This role is responsible for advancing enterprise psychiatric practice excellence by developing standards, evidence-based frameworks, provider excellence programs, and quality improvement initiatives to support psychiatric clinicians, patients, and clinical operations. Success looks like psychiatric standards, reduced unwarranted variation, improved quality and safety, and measurable improvement in psychiatric outcomes. This role will help to design and implement psychiatric Centers of Excellence, establish measurable quality frameworks, and build sustainable pipelines for clinician recruitment, retention, education, and wellbeing at a national organization.

This role is part of a team who will be assisting with implementing the and guiding the directives of the CMO team. We are seeking a highly collaborative, mission-driven professional with strong emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and exceptional executive functioning. The ideal candidate is a mature and efficient team player who communicates thoughtfully, remains solutions-oriented under pressure, and consistently puts shared goals above personal agenda. This person should be energized by the opportunity to help shape the future of mental healthcare and thrive in a high-accountability environment built on trust, focus, and mutual respect.

Consistent with LifeStance's values, every member of the LifeStance team is expected to support each other and the mission, which may mean participating in projects and initiatives and performing functions and responsibilities not specifically outlined in this job description.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish and maintain organizational psychiatric practice standards, treatment frameworks, and clinical expectations across markets and service lines.
• Lead development and implementation of evidence-based psychiatric guidelines, tools, protocols, and practice resources.
• Partner with Medical Leadership, Clinical Operations, Quality, Clinical Excellence, Learning & Development, and Measurement-Based Care teams to improve psychiatric care quality, safety, consistency, and outcomes.
• Identify and address psychiatric practice variation through data review, education, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Build and oversee a comprehensive clinician education and professional development curriculum across specialties and practice settings
• Design and oversee psychiatric provider excellence programs, including onboarding support, competency frameworks, mentoring structures, and ongoing professional development.
• Assist with transition to uniform and singular EHR use across the organization and developing efficient EHR workflows and policies that support the clinical user.
• Support development and review of psychiatric clinical policies, protocols, and standards that align with applicable laws, regulations, and professional expectations.
• Monitor psychiatric quality metrics, patient safety trends, outcomes, and clinical effectiveness measures to inform improvement priorities.
• Serve as a strategic advisor and subject matter expert regarding psychiatric practice trends, provider enablement, clinical risk, and standards of care.
• Lead initiatives supporting physician wellbeing, joy in medicine, and burnout prevention across the enterprise.
• Report on quality metrics, program outcomes, and workforce key performance indicators to the Vice President and C-suite stakeholders

Scope / Decision-Making / Impact

This role receives strategic direction from the Senior Leader, Psychiatric Excellence & Emerging Therapeutics and independently translates enterprise priorities into psychiatric practice standards, implementation plans, quality improvement priorities, and provider enablement strategies. The role makes day-to-day decisions regarding clinical framework development, education priorities, practice variation assessment, and quality improvement recommendations. Input or escalation is required when decisions involve enterprise-wide policy changes, regulatory or legal implications, significant operational impact, patient safety risk, or new areas of clinical practice standardization.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This role may supervise