Psychiatrist - PT Onsite (8 hours)

Wellpath; Louisiana; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DailyPay

Tuition assistance

EAP

HSA

Wellness program

Banking discounts

Life insurance

Job summary

Wellpath is seeking a Psychiatrist for a PT onsite role (8 hours) to provide comprehensive psychiatric care in a correctional setting. You will deliver evaluations, treatment planning, and coordination with mental health and medical staff.

This position emphasizes autonomy within a warm team, ongoing training, and career growth within a mission-driven organization focused on underserved populations. We offer competitive benefits and strong work-life balance.

Qualifications

• MD or DO with psychiatry specialty training.
• Experience providing psychiatric services to adults.
• Adult population experience required; youth facility experience preferred for some assignments.
• Current DEA registration (unless optional).
• Current BLS certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care.
• Monitor medications and adjust treatment as needed.
• Collaborate with care teams to ensure unified services.
• Complete clinical documentation and participate in meetings and on-call.
• Support referrals, transfers, crisis intervention, and coordination with staff.

Skills

Psychiatry

Clinical evaluation

Documentation

On-call

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

MD/DO in Psychiatry

Tools

DEA registration

BLS certification

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• 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
• 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
• Company paid life insurance

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.

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

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

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.