Multi-Specialty Group Psychiatry: Child & Adolescent Job in Seattle, Washington
This Child & Adolescent Psychiatry position in Seattle, Washington is offered as part of a multi-specialty group. In this arrangement, you practice alongside physicians from many specialties within one organization, with referral relationships largely internal and administrative functions handled centrally. These positions are typically structured as employed roles under group-level governance.
This is a permanent, straight employment position, with the financial offering listed at $225,000 - $249,999. There is no emergency department call associated with this role.
Candidates who are board certified or board eligible are considered, and the group welcomes applicants trained through allopathic or osteopathic pathways, including both American and foreign medical graduates. Physicians at any stage of experience — from those currently in training to very experienced practitioners — are invited to apply, provided they hold U.S. citizenship or a green card.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Psychiatry: Child & Adolescent
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
- Structure of Position: Multi-Specialty Group
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: (not specified)
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
This Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist will oversee 30 long term inpatient beds. They currently have 15 beds and are expanding to 30, the patients will be both private pay and Medicaid. These are high acuity patients, who have been hospitalized several times. Stays are typically 6 months to a year, and patients are seen once a week. There is an option to see some outpatients in the afternoon. The residential facility is in Burien, a section of Seattle, which is 15 miles south of central Seattle.
Patients reside in 6 cottages, and the grounds are beautiful and therapeutic, the cottages have porches overlooking the lake. They provide intensive psychiatric treatment for youths age 13-18 with serious mental health issues who have exhausted less-restrictive options.
This position will be a leadership role in the program, and will work closely with the Medical Director. Due to state law, they need the psychiatrist to do a brief physical on intake, a primary care physician comes in once a week to do complete physicals (Dr Aarons from Childrens Hospital in Seattle), and the patients are being transferred from a hospital setting, so all medical records are in order. This psychiatrist will be handling intake and admission orders, including conference calls in advance of the patient being admitted, will attend family treatment meetings
After intake, a psychiatric evaluation must be done within 24 hours, and the team schedules the psychiatrist so they are not over-scheduled with intakes and releases. Call is phone only.
Essentially, this doctor will be seeing 6 inpatient/residential patient per day, the children are given a wide variety of therapies in the program. In addition to these patients, the doctor could see outpatients in the afternoon, or the older population of 18-25 who are aging out of the system. This is a very supportive environment, both for the patients and the staff.
- Structure of Financial Support: Straight Employment
- Financial Offering: $225,000 - $249,999
- Relocation Allowance: Negotiable
- Signing Bonus: Negotiable
- Stipends: Negotiable
- Student Loan Assistance: No
- Practice State: Washington
- Practice City: Seattle
- Community Size: 10,000 - 24,999, 25,000 - 49,999, 50,000 - 99,999, 100,000 - 499,999, 500,000+
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card
- Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Clinic
- Number of Providers:
- Agency: MedSource Consultants
