Job Description

You Matter

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities

Join us and find a career that supports:
• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training

Perks and Benefits
In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:
• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service. 

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan. 

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

How you make a difference

The Psychiatrist provid es a comprehensive range of psychiatric services to incarcerated patients , including assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health disorders. Additionally, the Psychiatrist provides clinical consultation to mental health and health care staff on identified cases, ensuring high-quality mental health care for inmates. Overall, the position requires a strong commitment to providing compassionate care, sound clinical judgment, and effective communication with interdisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric services to inmate patients , including evaluations, treatment, and monitoring of psychotropic medications in compliance with professional and company policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to ensure uniformity of mental health services and documentation of psychiatric services.
• Provide supervision and oversight to psychiatric nurse (if applicable) and consultation/training services to mental health and medical staff.

• Participate in involuntary medication of high-risk inmates and provide documentation of psychiatric services contacts as requested .
• Exercise independent medical judgment in diagnosis and treatment of patients while adhering to approved medication formulary and notifying appropriate staff of clinical or administrative concerns.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education

• Doctorate in psychiatry.

Experience

• Training and experience providing psychiatric services to an adult population.

Licenses/Certifications

• Physician who is licensed to practice medicine in the state of employment
• Board-certified or board-eligible in psychiatry.
• CPR Certified.

Additional Details

*This is an on-site or hybrid position*You will be working 24 hours a week total between our Greensboro and Highpoint sites both adult correctional facilities.The person chosen can create their own schedule as long as they meet the 24 hours a week need.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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