Psychiatrist

As a physician-founded and led organization, ensuring everyone has access to quality healthcare is what inspires us. The magic we’ve created lies in Carbon Health’s custom EHR and the collaboration among clinical teams, engineers, and designers who work side-by-side to deliver innovation like our hands free AI charting tool. That’s why we hire people who genuinely care about patients, solving healthcare challenges, and making a positive impact every day. Join us and help change the future of healthcare for the better.

The Job at a Glance

Carbon Health is looking for a Psychiatric Consultant to serve as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team for the purpose of optimizing mental health. As an early hire on the Collaborative Care Team, you will help build and implement the new mental health programs at Carbon. Utilizing the Collaborative Care Model we provide mental health care that is brief, goal oriented, and measurement-based. With our unique approach to treatment, we aim to help our patients establish trust that meaningful progress/change can be made towards their mental health concerns within a clearly identified timeframe. We collaborate closely with the Primary Care team to assist patients with physical and mental health goals.

What We Offer

• Your input and contributions are valued and recognized

• Excellent clinical, administrative and management support

• Forward-thinking, tight-knit, transparent, collaborative and inclusive company culture

• The opportunity to grow and scale with a dynamic startup who is changing the way people think about healthcare

• Competitive pay, advancement opportunities, and comprehensive benefits for full-time employees

What You'll Do

The psychiatric consultant supports the collaborative care team—primary care provider, patient, and behavioral health care manager—through regular consultation on an assigned caseload of patients. The psychiatric consultant advises the primary care provider on appropriate medications and other treatment strategies, also providing the care team with educational support on diagnosing and managing behavioral health conditions.

• Provide regularly scheduled availability to complete caseload consultation to behavioral health care managers. Case review consultations focus primarily on patients who are new to the caseload or who are not improving as expected under their current treatment plan. Case reviews may be conducted by telephone, video, or in person.

• Work with behavioral health care managers to oversee the status and population health of their assigned patient caseload. The psychiatric consultant uses a registry to track all assigned patients and prioritize patients for case review and treatment adjustment. Carbon Health has built a dedicated caseload management system integrated within the Carbon EMR – making caseload review easy.

• Recommend any treatment adjustments through the case review process or in ad hoc consultations, including medication recommendations and other interventions, within 24 hours of consulting with a behavioral health care manager or other team members, or live during case review.

• Advise on treatment for patients who may need more intensive or more specialized mental health care, supporting treatment in the medical setting until patients can be engaged in specialized care as appropriate.

• Clearly communicate the limitations of the case review consultation and treatment recommendations if the patient is not evaluated in person.

• Be available to provide telephone consultation to primary care providers for very complex patients or challenging patients during primary care operating hours. Respond to telephone calls from primary care providers and behavioral health care managers within one business day. Respond to urgent telephone calls within one hour, if available. Coordinate with other psychiatric consultants for vacation coverage.

• Direct evaluation of patients with significant diagnostic or therapeutic challenges who are identified in discussion with the patient’s behavioral health care manager and/or primary care provider. Such consultation may be provided in person or via telemedicine (video or telephone).

• Development and delivery of in-service training for primary care-based providers and staff regarding recognition and treatment of behavioral health conditions in primary care.

• Maintain professional cell phone and email accounts for contact during usual business hours. Check professional accounts daily and respond to email questions/consultations within two business days, sooner if urgent.

About You

• Licensed psychiatrist in either California or Massachusetts

• Ability to work during Pacific Time Zone hours

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting

• Excellent communication skills

• Positive, flexible, and solution-focused attitude

• Ability to quickly synthesize medical and psychiatric data and formulate effective and evidence based clinical recommendations

• Experience with primary care psychiatry or consultation-liaison psychiatry

Resource Requirements and Typical Workload

Expect around 5 hours per week of psychiatric consultant time to assist each full-time behavioral health care manager to manage a full caseload.

Hourly Rate: $120.00-$180.00

Carbon Health is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. Final offer amounts are determined based on a variety of factors, including education, experience, work history, and geographic location. We comply with all applicable state and local wage and hour laws.

BENEFITS

• Medical, dental & vision coverage, effective first day of employment

• Health Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account option for health care & dependent care

• Paid time off, paid sick leave, paid training time

• 401k retirement savings plans with employer match

• Life & Disability Insurance

• Medical malpractice and tail insurance

• State license, board certification and BLS reimbursed for full-time providers

• DEA & DOT certification will be reimbursed where it is required for practice

• Complimentary subscriptions to point-of-care reference tool, DynaMedex

• Hippo Education subscription, internal education resources and clinical rounds to support continuing medical education requirements

*Some benefits dependent on specialty and employment status

We recognize that the key to success lies in valuing the minds, experiences, and perspectives of people from all walks of life. Carbon Health is proud to value diversity and be an equal-opportunity employer. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Carbon Health is an E-Verifyemployer.