Head of Psychiatric Practice

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Promote excellence in enterprise psychiatric practice through the establishment of standards, evidence-based frameworks, provider excellence programs, and initiatives focused on quality improvement.

• Create and sustain psychiatric practice standards, treatment frameworks, clinical expectations, guidelines, tools, protocols, and available practice resources.

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

• Detect and address variations in psychiatric practice by reviewing data, providing education, and initiating performance improvement efforts.

• Develop and manage curricula for clinician education and professional development.

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

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

• Support psychiatric clinical policies, protocols, and standards that comply with laws, regulations, and professional expectations.

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

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

• Lead initiatives aimed at physician well-being, joy in medicine, and the prevention of burnout.

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

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

• Offer functional leadership, coaching, education, clinical guidance, and accountability for improvements in quality and outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• MD or DO with board certification in Psychiatry.

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

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

• 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 practices.

• Familiarity with value-based care frameworks.

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

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

• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience collaborating with individuals from diverse backgrounds.

• Preferred: Leadership experience in multi-state behavioral health or outpatient mental health settings.

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

• Preferred: Published research or contributions to quality improvement scholarship.

• Preferred: Experience utilizing outcomes data, measurement-based care, or population-level clinical metrics to guide practice enhancements.

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

• Ability to sit, stand, bend, talk, hear, and walk; lift or move objects up to 25 pounds; and meet specified vision requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• AD&D insurance.

• Short- and long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401k retirement savings with employer match.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid time off.

• Holiday pay.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Competitive bonus plan.

• Equity potential.

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.