Primary Care Psychiatrist

Job Summary

The Psychiatrist, Primary Care Psychiatry provides direct, time-limited psychiatric consultation to patients referred from the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) Psychiatric Consultant or broader care team when additional diagnostic clarification, treatment planning, or specialty-level psychiatric assessment is needed within a primary care-aligned context.

This role functions as an extension of the integrated care model, delivering focused psychiatric evaluations and follow-up consultations designed to inform and support ongoing management by primary care providers and the CoCM team. Care is delivered within clearly defined consultative parameters rather than ongoing longitudinal specialty care, with an emphasis on diagnostic refinement, medication and other treatment optimization, and actionable recommendations that can be operationalized within primary care workflows supported by CoCM.

The psychiatrist collaborates closely with PCPs, the CoCM teams (i.e., BHCMs, Psychiatric Consultants), and operational partners to ensure continuity, clarity of roles, and alignment with established clinical pathways. They are expected to work efficiently within a fast-paced, evolving healthcare environment, balancing clinical depth with pragmatic decision-making, clear documentation, and timely communication.

This role requires strong independent clinical judgment, adaptability to evolving patient needs and organizational priorities, and comfort making operationally informed decisions consistent with integrated care policies, regulatory requirements, and partner practice expectations. The psychiatrist contributes to high-quality documentation in the EHR, effective use of virtual care platforms, and coordinated handoffs back to the CoCM and primary care teams.

The Psychiatrist, Primary Care Psychiatry plays a key role in advancing Concert Health’s Primary Care Psychiatry model by delivering high-value specialty treatment and clinical input at the right time, supporting team-based care, and helping ensure patients receive the appropriate level of psychiatric expertise without unnecessary fragmentation or escalation to traditional specialty settings.

Duties and Responsibilities

Direct Patient Care

• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, including structured interviews, diagnostic clarification, functional assessment, and use of validated clinical tools.


• Provide short-term, measurement-based psychiatric treatment focused on stabilization, safety, and transition of care back to the PCP.


• Prescribe, adjust, and manage psychotropic medications in alignment with evidence-based guidelines and integrated primary care workflows.


• Monitor treatment response, adverse effects, adherence, vitals, and safety; intervene rapidly when clinical deterioration or acute risk emerges.


• Deliver clear, clinically rigorous documentation that reflects diagnostic reasoning, risk assessment, and medical decision-making.


• Educate patients about psychiatric conditions, medication strategies, behavioral approaches, and expectations for short-term treatment within an integrated model.


• Stabilize and optimize treatment to support a smooth transition back to the PCP within the CoCM framework.


• Partner with the CoCM team (BHCM and PC) to ensure proactive follow-up for high-risk, non-improving, or newly enrolled patients, using measurement-based outcomes to guide intervention intensity.


• Serve as a clinical resource to primary care providers when patient-specific consultation is required to support immediate care decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted medical license to practice psychiatry in the state of California.


• Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical school.


• Board Certification in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) or the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry (AOBNP).


• Minimum of 5 years of post-residency clinical experience in psychiatry, with demonstrated expertise in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a broad range of psychiatric disorders.

Experience & Skills

Clinical Expertise

• Experience practicing in primary care, integrated care, or other team-based behavioral health settings.


• Ability to rapidly synthesize psychiatric and general medical history, clinical presentation, and patient data to formulate accurate, evidence-based diagnostic impressions and recommendations.


• Proficiency in evidence-based pharmacologic treatment across common behavioral health conditions, with demonstrated skill in managing complex comorbid general medical conditions.


• Ability to produce high-quality, clinically rigorous documentation that reflects comprehensive assessment, diagnostic reasoning, risk evaluation, and medical decision-making, consistent with the complexity of integrated psychiatric care.


• Current with evidence-based suicide care, including standardized assessment and safety planning approaches (e.g., C-SSRS and Stanley Brown).


• Comfort incorporating evidence-based treatment frameworks and skills (e.g., Problem-Solving Treatment, Motivational Interviewing, CBT skills, DBT skills, Behavioral Activation) into treatment planning.


• Experience using Measurement-Based Care tools (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5) to track symptom trajectories and guide population-level decision making.


• Demonstrated ability to conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, formulate DSM-5-based diagnoses, develop evidence-based treatment plans, and provide short-term medication management.


• Proven experience delivering high-quality care via both in-person and telepsychiatry modalities.

Integrated Care & Team Collaboration

• Enthusiasm for supporting busy primary care providers and psychiatric colleagues in identifying and treating behavioral health conditions within a measurement-based, systemic care model.


• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.


• Skill in navigating care coordination, including partnering on referral pathways, shared treatment plans, and warm handoff workflows.

Operational, Technical, and Professional Skills

• Excellent organizational, detail-management, multitasking, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving healthcare environment.


• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with patients, clinical colleagues, and administrative partners.


• Adaptability to evolving patient needs and organizational priorities.


• Ability to make and document independent clinical and operational decisions consistent with established policies and integrated care workflows.


• Technical proficiency with EHRs (e.g., Epic, Cerner), Salesforce, Google Suite, and Zoom, with strong documentation skills.


• Commitment to maintenance of licensure, board certification, and credentialing at partner practices.

Schedule 

• Full-Time and Part-Time schedules available. Standard workdays are Monday-Friday, but schedule flexibility is essential to accommodate patient care and operational demands.


• Remote position


• Required Travel:  Potential to travel 1-2 times per quarter to clinic areas for quarterly business reviews and clinic on-sites when needed.

Benefits:

• 100% remote with employer supplied computer equipment


• $50.00/month non-taxable remote stipend


• Work/life balance with 10 paid holidays, sick time, and flexible PTO plans


• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans effective on the first day of employment


• First Stop Health to medically enrolled members and their immediate family members for FREE


• Employer paid Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability plans


• Employer paid Life and AD&D insurance of $50,000


• Employer paid Parental Leave of 12 weeks


• 401K

Compensation: Pay will vary and is based on productivity. Full time equivalent (40 hours/ week) can expect to earn $350,000+

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