Psychiatrist

Justworks, Inc.; City of Rochester (NY); Hybrid; USD 227,000 - 324,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Accrued paid time off

Paid holidays

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

The Healing Connection in Rochester, NY seeks a Psychiatrist for a 20-25 hour per week W-2 role with benefits. You will lead initial psychiatric evaluations for PHP and Adolescent Residential Treatment, provide clinical leadership across a multidisciplinary team, and support outpatient services as needed.

The position emphasizes meaningful patient care with a predictable, sustainable schedule in a nonprofit setting focused on eating disorder treatment.

Qualifications

• MD/DO with completed psychiatry residency and NY license.
• Active DEA registration.
• Experience treating children and adolescents with behavioral health conditions.
• Eligible for Medicaid/Managed Care credentialing.
• Strong leadership and collaborative care skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial psychiatric evaluations for PHP and Adolescent Residential Admissions.
• Provide psychiatric leadership and supervision alongside Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and clinical teams.
• Oversee treatment planning, reviews, and sign-off across the continuum.
• Coordinate with medical providers, intake clinicians, and therapeutic staff.
• Consult on complex cases and higher-acuity patients.
• Support outpatient services through collaboration with NPs and clinicians.
• Participate in quality improvement and program development.

Skills

Experience treating children and adol.

Psychiatric evaluation

Medication management

Education

MD or DO from an accredited medical school

Completion of an accredited Psychiatry Residency

Active and unrestricted New York State medical license

Active DEA registration

Eligible for Medicaid/Managed Care credentialing

Job description

Employment type Part-time employee Department — Work location Rochester, NY Compensation $200 – $200 per hour
Final compensation will depend on the location and level at which the candidate is hired

About this job

Part-Time W-2 | 20-25 Hours per Week | Benefits Eligible | Flexible/Hybrid Opportunity

Programs Supported: Outpatient, Partial Hospitalization (PHP) & Adolescent Residential Treatment
Compensation: $200.00 per Hour
Benefits: Benefit eligible
Licensure: Active and Unrestricted New York State Medical License Required

Help Lead the Next Chapter of Eating Disorder Care

For 17 years, The Healing Connection, a nonprofit licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health (NYS OMH), has supported individuals and families affected by eating disorders and related mental health concerns in our community.

As we expand our continuum of specialized eating disorder care to include adolescent residential treatment, we are seeking an exceptional Psychiatrist to join our team to support our Outpatient, Partial Hospitalization & Adolescent Residential Treatment programs.

This is a unique opportunity for a psychiatrist who wants to combine meaningful patient care with clinical leadership while maintaining a predictable, sustainable schedule.

We are looking for more than a prescriber.

We are seeking a psychiatrist who is passionate about eating disorder treatment, values interdisciplinary collaboration, enjoys working with adolescents and families, and wants to help shape the psychiatric vision of a growing nonprofit organization.

This is a 20-25-hour-per-week W-2 position at $200 per hour with benefits, accrued paid time off, paid holidays, and flexibility for a hybrid working arrangement.

The psychiatrist will join an established multidisciplinary team that includes Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, medical providers, professional nursing staff, Clinical Directors, licensed therapists, Intake Clinicians, registered dietitians, residential staff, and organizational leadership.

Each program has its own Clinical Director responsible for day-to-day program operations. This allows the Psychiatrist to focus on psychiatric evaluation, admissions, complex cases, treatment-plan oversight, consultation, clinical quality, and psychiatric leadership across the continuum.

About The Healing Connection

The Healing Connection is a mission-driven nonprofit organization providing specialized treatment to individuals and families affected by eating disorders and related mental health conditions.

Our continuum of care includes:

Adolescent Residential Treatment

Our treatment model emphasizes continuity, compassion, clinical excellence, and close interdisciplinary collaboration.

Our culture is rooted in:

Respect and Humility

Integrity

Clinical Quality

Continuous Learning and Growth

This position offers the opportunity to provide psychiatric leadership across a true continuum while maintaining meaningful relationships with the professionals providing patients' day-to-day treatment.

Position Summary

The Psychiatrist provides psychiatric evaluation, oversight, consultation, and leadership across The Healing Connection's continuum of eating disorder treatment, with particular responsibility for admissions to the Partial Hospitalization and Adolescent Residential Treatment programs.

The psychiatrist primarily conducts initial psychiatric evaluations for patients entering PHP and Residential Treatment.

After the initial psychiatric evaluation and recommendations are established, The Healing Connection's Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners provide routine psychiatric follow-up, ongoing medication management, and treatment-plan participation, working collaboratively with the psychiatrist.

This model enables the psychiatrist to focus their expertise where it has the greatest impact:

Initial psychiatric evaluation

Psychiatric admission readiness

Medical and psychiatric profile review

Higher-risk and higher-acuity patients

Treatment-plan oversight and required sign-off

Consultation with Psychiatric NPs and treatment teams

Quality and consistency of psychiatric practice

Psychiatric leadership across the continuum

The psychiatrist also supports Outpatient Services through consultation, treatment-plan oversight as required, and involvement with patients presenting with greater diagnostic complexity, psychiatric acuity, risk, or medication-management needs.

PHP Admissions & Initial Psychiatric Evaluation

The Healing Connection's Partial Hospitalization Program serves both adolescents and adults and is licensed for up to 20 patients, with a typical census including approximately 10 adolescents and 10 adults.

The Psychiatrist will:

Conduct the initial psychiatric evaluation for patients admitted to PHP.

Review intake assessments, psychiatric history, current and previous medications, diagnoses, presenting symptoms, treatment history, safety concerns, and relevant records.

Review medical profiles and admission information in collaboration with The Healing Connection's medical providers and Intake Clinician.

Assess psychiatric appropriateness and readiness for PHP admission.

Conduct diagnostic formulation and establish initial psychiatric treatment recommendations.

Review current psychotropic medications and make recommendations regarding initiation, continuation, or modification as clinically appropriate.

Assess psychiatric risk and identify needs requiring increased monitoring or intervention.

Communicate psychiatric findings and recommendations to the Psychiatric NP and multidisciplinary treatment team.

Transition routine psychiatric follow-up and medication management to the Psychiatric NP following initial evaluation when clinically appropriate.

Provide continued consultation when psychiatric acuity increases or when significant diagnostic, medication, safety, or level-of-care concerns arise.

Participate in treatment planning and provide required psychiatric review and sign-off.

Anticipated PHP Volume

The PHP generally averages:

Approximately 2-3 admissions per week

Approximately 8-week average length of stay

Approximately 2–3 discharges per week

Ongoing routine psychiatric follow-up is primarily provided by the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, allowing the psychiatrist to focus on new evaluations, higher-acuity patients, complex cases, and psychiatric oversight.

Adolescent Residential Admissions & Psychiatric Evaluation

The Psychiatrist will play an important leadership role within The Healing Connection's new Adolescent Residential Treatment Program.

The residential program will serve up to 10 adolescents and utilize a rolling admission model with an anticipated average length of stay of approximately 30 days.

Responsibilities include:

Conduct the initial psychiatric evaluation for adolescents admitted to residential treatment.

Review each prospective resident's psychiatric history, current and previous medications, diagnoses, treatment history, clinical presentation, safety considerations, and relevant records.

Participate in medical and psychiatric profile review prior to admission in collaboration with medical providers and the Intake Clinician.

Provide psychiatric input regarding appropriateness and safety for residential admission.

Identify psychiatric conditions or risk factors requiring additional assessment, monitoring, intervention, or an alternative level of care.

Establish initial diagnoses and psychiatric treatment recommendations.

Collaborate with the Psychiatric NP responsible for subsequent psychiatric follow-up and ongoing medication management.

Provide consultation for adolescents experiencing increased psychiatric acuity, diagnostic complexity, significant medication concerns, safety issues, or treatment challenges.

Participate in treatment planning and provide required psychiatric review and sign-off.

Provide psychiatric consultation regarding transition and discharge planning when indicated.

Anticipated Residential Volume

Once operating at census, the program is expected to average:

Approximately 2–3 rolling admissions per week

Approximately 30-day average length of stay

Approximately 2–3 discharges per week

Collaborative Psychiatric Care Model

The Healing Connection utilizes a team-based psychiatric model designed to allow both our Psychiatrist and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners to practice effectively within their respective roles and expertise.

The Psychiatrist will primarily:

Conduct initial psychiatric evaluations for PHP and Residential admissions.

Review medical and psychiatric admission profiles.

Establish psychiatric diagnoses and initial treatment recommendations.

Provide psychiatric leadership across the continuum.

Consult on higher-risk and higher-acuity patients.

Provide diagnostic and medication consultation for complex presentations.

Provide treatment-plan oversight and required psychiatric sign-off.

Support Psychiatric NPs with complex cases.

Consult with Clinical Directors regarding psychiatric needs and challenging cases.

Help establish consistency and clinical quality across psychiatric services.

Participate in quality improvement and psychiatric program development.

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Responsibilities

Psychiatric NPs primarily provide:

Routine psychiatric follow-up after the initial psychiatric evaluation.

Ongoing medication management.

Monitoring of psychiatric symptoms and response to treatment.

Treatment-plan and treatment-plan-review participation.

Routine communication and coordination with therapists, nursing, medical providers, dietitians, and Clinical Directors.

Consultation with the Psychiatrist when increased risk, diagnostic complexity, medication concerns, or changes in psychiatric acuity warrant additional physician involvement.

Our goal is not to duplicate psychiatric services. We have intentionally developed a collaborative model that allows each provider to work effectively at the top of their training, expertise, and scope.

The Psychiatrist provides psychiatric oversight of treatment planning across the continuum as required by clinical, regulatory, and program standards.

Responsibilities include:

Review and sign treatment plans and treatment-plan reviews when psychiatrist review or signature is required.

Ensure psychiatric diagnoses, medications, risk considerations, and recommendations are appropriately incorporated into treatment planning.

Collaborate with Psychiatric NPs regarding treatment plans and reviews.

Provide consultation when significant changes in psychiatric presentation affect the treatment plan.

Participate directly in treatment-plan discussions for complex or higher-acuity patients as appropriate.

Support efficient workflows that allow Psychiatric NPs, Clinical Directors, and multidisciplinary clinicians to manage routine treatment planning while maintaining appropriate psychiatric oversight.

Outpatient Psychiatric Leadership & Consultation

The Psychiatrist will support The Healing Connection's Outpatient Program without being expected to personally manage every outpatient psychiatric patient.

Responsibilities include:

Collaborate with Psychiatric NPs providing ongoing outpatient psychiatric care.

Provide consultation regarding diagnostically complex or higher-risk patients.

Support treatment-plan development and review when psychiatric involvement is clinically or regulatorily appropriate.

Provide consultation when patients experience meaningful changes in psychiatric acuity.

Assist the treatment team in determining when a patient may require a different or higher level of care.

Support quality and consistency of psychiatric treatment across outpatient services.

Higher-Acuity & Complex Case Consultation

An important function of the Psychiatrist is serving as a senior psychiatric resource when patients present with increased complexity or risk.

The Psychiatrist will:

Consult with Psychiatric NPs, Clinical Directors, therapists, medical providers, and nurses regarding higher-acuity patients.

Provide psychiatric assessment and recommendations when clinical presentation changes significantly.

Assist with complex diagnostic formulation.

Provide consultation regarding complex psychiatric medication management.

Consult regarding suicide risk, self-harm concerns, significant mood or behavioral changes, psychosis, severe psychiatric deterioration, and other serious psychiatric concerns.

Assist treatment teams in determining whether the patient's current level of care remains clinically appropriate.

Provide psychiatric recommendations regarding escalation to emergency or inpatient evaluation when clinically indicated.

Support safe transitions between levels of care.

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Eating disorder treatment requires close integration of psychiatric, medical, nutritional, nursing, behavioral health, and family-centered care.

The Psychiatrist works collaboratively with:

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners

On-staff medical providers

Clinical Directors

Licensed therapists

Intake Clinicians

Residential treatment staff

Organizational leadership

The Psychiatrist participates in collaborative clinical decision-making while respecting the expertise and responsibilities of each discipline.

Particular collaboration occurs between psychiatry and medical providers around the intersection of psychiatric health, medical stability, nutrition, medications, and eating disorder recovery.

Schedule & Flexibility

This position is designed around approximately 20-25 hours per week and offers a predictable schedule with flexibility for the right candidate.

The schedule may include:

Initial psychiatric evaluations

Admission reviews

Psychiatric NP consultation

Clinical Director consultation

Complex case reviews

Documentation and administrative responsibilities

Hybrid Flexibility

A combination of on-site and remote work may be available when clinically appropriate, operationally feasible, and consistent with applicable requirements and on-site coverage needs.

For an exceptional candidate, we are open to developing a creative schedule that allows the physician to remain meaningfully integrated with our Rochester treatment teams while maintaining professional commitments in another geographic location.

Work-Life Balance

Approximately 20-25 hours per week

Predictable scheduled hours

Hybrid opportunities where appropriate

The psychiatrist is expected to maintain appropriate availability to Psychiatric NPs, Clinical Directors, and treatment teams for time-sensitive clinical consultation during established working and coverage periods.

Required Qualifications

Education & Training

MD or DO from an accredited medical school

Completion of an accredited Psychiatry Residency

Active and unrestricted New York State medical license

Active DEA registration

Eligible for credentialing with Medicaid, Managed Care, and commercial insurers

Experience treating children, adolescents, and young adults with behavioral health conditions

Experience providing psychiatric evaluation, medication management