Site Medical Director

Aurora Wellness Clinic; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurora Wellness Clinic seeks a Site Medical Director for Clinical Governance & Interventional Psychiatry in Jersey City, NJ. The role blends executive leadership with hands-on patient care in a 50/50 hybrid model, and focuses on Spravato programs and governance across a growing behavioral health platform.

You will supervise a multidisciplinary team, ensure compliance with state boards, and partner with corporate leadership to scale services while protecting time for high-level patient care.

Qualifications

• Board-certified psychiatrist with leadership experience directing multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong familiarity with treatment-resistant mood disorders and interventional modalities.
• Experience supervising clinical staff and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Comfort with cloud-based practice workflows and modern collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical governance, staffing, and management for the New Jersey site.
• Provide direct interventional psychiatry oversight and high-quality patient care.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, documentation standards, and safety protocols.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to scale and expand the Jersey City footprint.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Regulatory compliance

Mentoring

Interventional psychiatry

Team building

Spravato oversight

Data-driven workflows

EHR navigation

Strategic growth input

Education

Board Certification in Psychiatry

Tools

Cloud-based EHR

Slack

Job description

Site Medical Director – Clinical Governance & Interventional Psychiatry (50/50 Hybrid / Jersey City, NJ)

Company Overview

Aurora Wellness is a modern, tech-forward, and rapidly expanding behavioral health practice. Guided by a provider-first philosophy, we have engineered an ecosystem designed to eliminate the systemic administrative friction and compliance burdens that cause physician burnout. As we scale our advanced interventional programs—focusing on treatment-resistant depression and Spravato (Esketamine) therapy—into the New Jersey market, we are seeking a visionary Site Medical Director to co-build our local footprint, spearhead clinical staffing, and oversee governance.

The Aurora Leadership Advantage

At Aurora, we believe a Medical Director should lead medicine and build high-performing teams, not manage logistics. We provide an elite administrative and BPO operations layer that handles 100% of the insurance prior authorizations, billing, and scheduling. This leaves you completely unburdened to focus your time evenly between premium patient care and executive leadership

• True 50/50 Balance: Spend half your week driving clinical excellence, staffing, and governance, and the other half providing specialized interventional patient care
• Total Operational Insulation: We strip away the non-clinical headaches. Our corporate infrastructure manages REMS program compliance, marketing, facilities management, and billing, protecting your time for high-level leadership
• Flexible Hybrid Model: Maintain an agile schedule with dedicated on-site days at our state-of-the-art Jersey City clinic for team collaboration and interventional oversight, balanced with remote blocks for administrative leadership and telehealth

Key Responsibilities

1. Clinical Governance, Staffing & Management (50%)

• Team Building & Recruitment: Partner closely with corporate executive leadership to interview, select, and onboard a high-caliber New Jersey team of psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and LCSWs.
• Clinical Supervision & Mentorship: Provide direct clinical oversight, regular chart audits, and case consultations for regional mid-levels and therapists, ensuring the highest standards of diagnostic and prescriptive integrity under ew Jersey nursing and medical board regulations.
• Regulatory & Compliance Leadership: Serve as the local clinical authority to ensure strict adherence to state medical guidelines, collaborative practice agreements, and safety protocols for interventional modalities (including Spravato)
• Quality Assurance: Drive initiatives to optimize patient outcomes, maintain clinical documentation standards, and foster a collaborative, continuous-learning culture across the local team

2. Advanced Direct Patient Care (50%)

• Interventional Program Oversight: Evaluate and manage clinical intake and medical administration protocols for clients undergoing Spravato (Esketamine) treatments within our specialized Jersey City clinic environment
• Complex Psychopharmacology: Provide high-quality diagnostic evaluations and evidence-based medication management for adult outpatient populations experiencing severe or treatment-resistant mood disorders
• Coordinated Care: Maintain a highly efficient, targeted clinical schedule, working in tandem with Aurora's dedicated therapists and administrative coordinators

Requirements

• Credentials: Board Certification in Psychiatry (MD or DO)
• Licensure: Active, unrestricted license to practice medicine from the New Jersey Medical Board with an active DEA and state-specific registration
• Leadership Experience: Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, or supervising a multidisciplinary clinical team (Psychiatrists, NPs, and/or Therapists)
• Clinical Expertise: Deep familiarity with treatment-resistant depression and mood disorders. Prior experience with interventional psychiatry or a strong desire to lead an advanced modality clinic is required
• Tech-Forward Mindset: Highly comfortable navigating modern cloud-based EHRs, secure asynchronous communication platforms (e.g., Slack), and data-driven practice workflows.
• Premium Executive Tier: Competitive base leadership salary/stipend combined with a volume-driven clinical revenue structre
• Malpractice Coverage: Fully covered under Aurora’s comprehensive professional liability policy
• Strategic Growth Input: Serve as a core member of the expansion team, directly influencing how Aurora scales its model across New Jersey
• Zero Mandatory Call/Weekends: Designed explicitly to respect your executive focus and personal boundaries