🧠Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist Locums | Inpatient | Massachusetts
Updated 2/12/26
Natick, Massachusetts, United States
Physician
Psychiatry-Child/Adolescent
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Job at a glance
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Full-Time
Moonlighting
Locums/Travel
Part-Time/Contract
Work Environment
Inpatient
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job description
Job description
This is a high-impact Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry opportunity in Massachusetts with a consistent patient census and strong clinical support. If you are looking for meaningful work in a structured inpatient setting with manageable volume and long-term continuity potential, this is an excellent locums assignment to secure.
Job Responsibilities
• Perform daily rounding and ongoing medication management
• Conduct new psychiatric evaluations and follow-up care
• Participate in treatment team planning and interdisciplinary coordination
• Manage behavioral escalations and crisis stabilization as needed
• Utilize appropriate inpatient protocols for involuntary holds and safety interventions
• Provide clinical oversight for seclusion and restraint when required
• Collaborate with nursing and APP support staff to ensure safe patient care
Qualifications
• Board Certified required (must be Child & Adolescent certified)
• CPI training required
• ACLS required
• BLS required
• PALS required
• ATLS required
• ABLS required
• Must be Board Certified in specialty listed on assignment request
• Credentialing timeframe approximately 60 days
• Fellowship preferred
Working Hours
• Duration: Ongoing
• Scheduled clinical hours only
• No call coverage listed
• Average patient volume: 6–10 per shift
• Unit size: 10 beds
• Follow-up to new evaluation ratio: 10:1
Skills
• Acute psychiatric stabilization
• Medication management and pharmacotherapy
• Treatment planning and care coordination
• Management of involuntary commitments
• Seclusion therapy oversight
• Restraint application protocols
• Family therapy involvement
• Group therapy participation
• Diagnosis and management of developmental disorders
• Management of affective and psychotic disorders
• Anxiety and personality disorder evaluation
• Eating disorder evaluation
• ADD/ADHD management
• Familiarity with ECT (preferred)
By applying you agree to our Terms of Service