Student Health Psychiatrist

University of California, Riverside; Riverside (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 446,000; Full time

Job summary

University of California, Riverside seeks a Psychiatrist to provide top-tier psychiatric care for students within the Student Health Services team. Responsibilities include evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and medication management, with integration across CAPS and SWIFT for holistic patient care.

The role involves close collaboration with care coordination for complex cases, 85% clinical time, and a salary range described below.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality psychiatric care to students including evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and medication management.
• Collaborate with CAPS, Student Well-being, SWIFT, and Case Management to integrate psychiatric and counseling care.
• Communicate with primary care physicians and outside therapists as necessary; coordinate care for hospitalized or complex patients.

Job description

Priority Application Deadline: 04/16/2026

• Job ID 37240955
• Category Healthcare
• Organization Health Wellbeing and Safety
• Department Student Health Services
• Location Main Campus - UCR
• Salary $173,838 - $446,226
• Date Posted March 25, 2026
• Application Deadline Open Until Filled
• Schedule 8AM - 5PM
• Full/Part Time Full-time(100%)
• Level of Supervision General Supervision
• Personnel Program Code Management & Sr Professional
• Other Information Qualifies for Employee Referral Bonus: No
• Other Information UC Internal Job: No

Position Information

The Psychiatrist will provide high-quality psychiatric care to students at the University of California Riverside. This includes evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and medication management. This position operates within the Student Health Services team and collaborates closely with the Mental Health Initiatives cluster, which include Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), Student Well-being, and Follow up Team (SWIFT), and Case Management, to ensure the integration of psychiatric and counseling care to ensure a holistic and coordinate approach to patient care. This patient population is interesting, highly motivated, and generally very responsible about their psychiatric care. Communicates as necessary with primary care physicians and with outside therapists. Collaborates with Care Coordination regarding hospitalized patients or patients with complicated medical needs. Other supports include robust informational systems, user-friendly electronic medical record system, on-site member services, a quality management team, and expert practice management. The position provides 85% face-to-face clinical time (60 minutes for new intakes, 30 minutes for follow-up visits), 10% allotted for administrative tasks and 5 % allotted for collaboration with the Mental Health Initiatives cluster on student cases, treatment plans, and crisis management support. This position will be hired between 80% to 100% FTE. Candidates may be required to conduct a presentation as part of the interview process. The full salary range for the Student Health Psychiatrist is $167,152 - $429,063 annually. However, the expected pay scale for this position is up to $319,400 annually. We base salary offers on a variety of considerations, such as education, licensure and certifications, experience, and other business and organizational needs.

UC Riverside has enlisted AMN Healthcare to assist us in our search. Questions and inquiries can be directed to CJ Stanford with AMN Healthcare ([e-mail]) and will be handled in a secure, sensitive and confidential manner.

Applicants must have current work authorization when accepting a UCR staff position. Currently, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa for staff.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.