Author Health

Turn your passion into your purpose.

At Author Health, we are offering a technology-enabled health care services for seniors with complex mental health conditions. We seek a psychiatrist to provide clinical care and supervise a multidisciplinary team providing virtual-first care to seniors with serious mental illness (SMI).

Job Description: Psychiatrist

• Oversee a multidisciplinary team of nurse practitioners, social workers, community health workers and health navigators providing care to seniors with SMI
• Perform virtual-first direct patient care, primarily for patients requiring diagnostic clarification or with complexity requiring a psychiatrist’s expertise, providing treatment recommendations, treatment planning, and follow-up planning
• Lead team huddles to ensure the care team is working collaboratively toward improving the lives of patients
• Use outcome measurement tools during the course of treatment to help patients and the treatment team track progress
• Act as the collaborative supervising physician for psychiatric NPs
• Provide clinical support to BH team who will be providing short-term psychotherapy, supporting caregivers, coordinating transitions of care, and connecting patients to community-based organizations and agencies
• Contribute to the development and implementation of BH clinical programming within the market, with an eye toward refining processes that allow the company to scale
• Collaborate with PCPs, as well as patients’ other providers, to coordinate treatment and help address co-occurring physical health conditions
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule
• Contribute to constructing the psychiatrist’s role within the company, including contributing to company culture and serving as an ambassador for the company’s mission

Requirements:

• Leader, self-starter, takes initiative, comfort with ambiguity and working in a nascent environment
• Excitement about providing care to patients with SMI in a new care paradigm
• Passion about improving the lives of patients and their caregivers, and improving care delivery
• Board-certified psychiatrist licensed to practice in Florida, or able to obtain a Florida license
• Greater than three years of experience providing direct psychiatric care
• Experience treating patients with serious mental illness (preferred: experience treating seniors)
• Experience supervising a multidisciplinary team of providers
• Comfort managing patients with complex medical and psychosocial needs
• Experience working in a collaborative care model is a plus
• Bilingual (English-Spanish) preferred
• Full-time, 40h/week (anticipate 30h/week direct virtual patient care), with occasional on-call responsibilities

This is a full-time, exempt role, with 5% travel possible. Physical requirements include ability to use a computer.

This behavioral health new company is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is the company’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. The company’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. In accordance with applicable legal requirements such as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Newco will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.