Head of Psychiatric Practice

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +6 more states.

📋 Description

• Enhance the excellence of enterprise psychiatric practices through the establishment of standards, evidence-based frameworks, provider excellence programs, and quality improvement initiatives.

• Create and uphold organizational standards for psychiatric practice, treatment frameworks, and clinical expectations across different markets and service lines.

• Spearhead the development and implementation of evidence-based psychiatric guidelines, tools, protocols, and practice resources.

• Collaborate with Medical Leadership, Clinical Operations, Quality, Clinical Excellence, Learning & Development, and Measurement-Based Care teams.

• Identify and address variations in psychiatric practice through data analysis, educational initiatives, and performance improvement efforts.

• Develop and manage clinician education and professional development curricula across various specialties and practice settings.

• Design and supervise psychiatric provider excellence programs, which include onboarding support, competency frameworks, mentoring structures, and ongoing professional development.

• Assist in the transition to a standardized EHR system and create efficient EHR workflows and policies.

• Support the development and review of psychiatric clinical policies, protocols, and standards in accordance with laws, regulations, and professional expectations.

• Monitor psychiatric quality metrics, patient safety trends, outcomes, and measures of clinical effectiveness.

• Act as a strategic advisor and subject matter expert on psychiatric practice trends, provider enablement, clinical risk, and standards of care.

• Lead initiatives focused on physician wellbeing, joy in medicine, and burnout prevention.

• Report quality metrics, program outcomes, and workforce KPIs to the Vice President and C-suite stakeholders.

• Translate enterprise priorities into psychiatric practice standards, implementation plans, quality improvement priorities, and strategies for provider enablement.

• May oversee direct reports and offer functional leadership to physician leaders, psychiatric advanced practice provider stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• MD or DO with board certification in Psychiatry.

• Active, unrestricted medical license with the ability to maintain appropriate licensure requirements.

• Over 10 years of psychiatric clinical experience, including progressive leadership roles within healthcare or behavioral health organizations.

• Proven experience in developing clinical standards, treatment frameworks, quality improvement initiatives, or provider excellence programs.

• Strong knowledge of psychiatric standards of care, patient safety, clinical governance, regulatory expectations, and evidence-based practice.

• Familiarity with value-based care frameworks.

• Capability to influence senior clinical and operational stakeholders within a complex, matrixed organization.

• Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills.

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Demonstrates awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience in engaging with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and various cultural aspects.

• Physical ability to sit, stand, bend, talk, hear, walk, and lift/move objects up to 25 pounds.

• Required vision abilities include close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth vision, along with the ability to adjust focus.

• Preferred: Multi-state behavioral health or outpatient mental health leadership experience.

• Preferred: Experience in leading physician practice transformation, clinical quality, or provider development initiatives.

• Preferred: Published research or quality improvement scholarship.

• Preferred: Experience using outcomes data, measurement-based care, or population-level clinical metrics to inform practice improvement.

• Preferred: Experience representing psychiatric leadership in governance forums, executive discussions, or external professional settings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive bonus plan.

• Equity potential.

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.