Hospital / Clinic Employed Psychiatry: General Job in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
This general psychiatry position in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania is offered as a hospital/clinic-employed arrangement. In this structure, the hospital or clinic serves as both your recruiter and employer: you work under a W-2 employment agreement, with the organization administering your compensation, benefits, malpractice coverage, and scheduling, and supplying the clinical facility and support infrastructure. This lets you focus on clinical care with fewer business and administrative responsibilities to manage on your own.
Compensation here is structured as an employment agreement with production bonus, with the financial offering listed at the national average tier. The role includes relocation assistance, a signing bonus, a training stipend, and loan assistance. There is no patient call rotation and no emergency department call associated with this position. Partnership is not part of this opportunity.
- Board Certified or Board Eligible candidates considered
- Open to MD and DO training backgrounds, including AMG and FMG
- US Citizens, Green Card holders, and H-1/J-1 visa holders eligible
- Suitable for physicians currently in training, recently trained, or experienced
- Located in a community sized 100,000–499,999
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Psychiatry: General
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
- Structure of Position: Employed by Hospital/Clinic/MSO/Other
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: No call
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
First Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, PA, is seeking a BC/BE general Psychiatrist to join Community Counseling Services. This is an employed, outpatient opportunity. This opportunity has the potential to offer H1-B and/or J-1 visa support. Community Counseling Services is affiliated with First Hospital and is one of the area's largest and busiest community mental health centers. It has been in operation for over 40 years and is currently seeking full-time Psychiatrists to provide outpatient services at the community center. Community Counseling Services provides outpatient and partial hospitalization programs to patients 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. A mobile crisis intervention team is available to help patients in need of emergency psychiatric care. Case management provides patient assistance in obtaining community resources. Professional and licensed counselors and rehabilitation programs help patients who need assistance facing depression, anxiety, mental problems and adjustments to life-changing circumstances. \
- Structure of Financial Support: Employment Agreement with production bonus
- Financial Offering: National Average
- Median Compensation: $316,076 per year
- Relocation Allowance: $10,000
- Signing Bonus: $20,000
- Stipends: Yes
- Student Loan Assistance: Yes
- Practice State: Pennsylvania
- Practice City: Wilkes-Barre
- Community Size: 100,000 - 499,999
- 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, H-1 Visa, J-1 Visa
- Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Clinic
- Number of Providers: 0
- Agency: Physician Consultant Group
