Correctional Psychiatrist – Detention Booking Services | $210.73/Hr | San Jose, CA
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Correctional Psychiatrist – Detention Booking Services | $210.73/Hr | San Jose, CA
Location: San Jose, California
Specialty: Adult Psychiatry / Correctional Psychiatry
Employment Type: Full-Time, W-2
Practice Setting: Correctional Psychiatry / Detention Booking Services
Compensation: $210.73 per Hour + Benefits and Bonus Opportunities
Daily Coverage Hours: 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM Pacific Time
Correctional Psychiatrist – $210.73/Hour | San Jose, California
Setline Health is seeking a qualified Psychiatrist to provide psychiatric intake and detention booking services at the Santa Clara County Main Jail Complex in San Jose, California.
This opportunity offers $210.73 per hour, comprehensive benefits, retirement matching, and generous annual bonus opportunities.
The psychiatrist will evaluate individuals entering the correctional system, initiate or continue psychiatric treatment, and determine appropriate levels of care. The position also includes collaboration with the acute inpatient psychiatric team when additional clinical coverage is needed.
Position Highlights
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$210.73 per hour – Full-Time W-2
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Comprehensive employee benefits package
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401(k) retirement plan with competitive employer match
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Generous annual bonus opportunities
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Psychiatric intake and detention booking services
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Daily coverage hours of 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM PT
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Average caseload of 7–14 psychiatric cases per shift
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Initial psychiatric evaluations and medication management
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Access to clinical social workers for patient triage
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Opportunity to provide additional acute inpatient psychiatric coverage
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Established correctional healthcare environment
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Located in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley
About the Practice
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center is a 574-bed acute care public teaching hospital affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine.
Setline Health supports psychiatric services within the Santa Clara County Main Jail Complex, a correctional facility designed to accommodate up to 854 incarcerated individuals.
The facility operates under a direct supervision model, with correctional officers overseeing secured housing units.
The psychiatric patient population includes individuals experiencing serious mental illness, acute psychiatric symptoms, behavioral health crises, and conditions requiring inpatient psychiatric stabilization.
Job Responsibilities
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Conduct comprehensive psychiatric intake evaluations for newly booked individuals entering the correctional system.
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Assess psychiatric symptoms, mental health history, medication needs, and immediate safety concerns.
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Diagnose and treat acute and chronic psychiatric conditions.
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Initiate, continue, and adjust psychiatric medications as clinically indicated.
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Evaluate patients for suicide risk, self-harm concerns, psychiatric instability, and the need for a higher level of care.
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Determine when psychiatric inpatient admission is medically appropriate.
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Coordinate admissions and transitions between detention booking services and the acute inpatient psychiatric unit.
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Manage an average of 7–14 psychiatric cases per shift.
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Collaborate with clinical social workers to triage lower-acuity patients during periods of increased intake volume.
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Work closely with nursing staff, correctional healthcare professionals, social workers, and facility personnel.
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Provide psychiatric consultation and clinical support to the acute inpatient psychiatric unit as needed.
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Assist with inpatient psychiatric coverage when the unit is not fully staffed.
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Develop individualized psychiatric treatment plans based on clinical assessments.
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Maintain accurate, timely clinical documentation.
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Follow established correctional healthcare protocols, patient safety standards, and applicable regulations.
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Deliver compassionate, ethical, evidence-based psychiatric care in a secure correctional environment.
Qualifications
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Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical school.
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Completion of an accredited Psychiatry residency program.
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Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry preferred.
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Active, unrestricted California medical license or ability to obtain licensure before beginning employment.
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Active DEA registration appropriate for prescribing responsibilities.
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Experience providing adult psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and medication management.
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Strong knowledge of acute psychiatric conditions, crisis intervention, and psychiatric risk assessment.
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Experience in correctional psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, or acute inpatient psychiatry preferred.
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Ability to evaluate patients with serious mental illness and determine appropriate levels of psychiatric care.
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Experience managing patients with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders preferred.
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Excellent clinical judgment, communication, and documentation skills.
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Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
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Comfortable practicing within a secure correctional healthcare environment.
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Commitment to professional ethics, confidentiality, patient safety, and evidence-based psychiatric treatment.
Working Hours
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Daily Service Coverage: 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM Pacific Time.
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Coverage Window: 16 hours of psychiatric booking services daily.
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Employment Type: Full-Time, W-2.
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Primary Assignment: Psychiatric intake evaluations and treatment within Detention Booking Services.
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Average Caseload: Approximately 7–14 psychiatric cases per shift.
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Additional Coverage: May provide up to 10 hours of acute inpatient psychiatric coverage when the inpatient unit is not fully staffed by three psychiatrists.
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Individual Shift Schedule: To be confirmed based on facility staffing requirements.
Skills
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Adult Psychiatry
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Correctional Psychiatry
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Detention Booking and Psychiatric Intake
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Emergency Psychiatric Evaluations
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Acute Psychiatric Stabilization
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Psychiatric Diagnosis and Assessment
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Psychopharmacology and Medication Management
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Suicide Risk Assessment and Crisis Intervention
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Serious Mental Illness Treatment
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Forensic and Correctional Mental Health
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Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Care
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Psychiatric Triage and Patient Prioritization
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Inpatient Psychiatric Admission Assessments
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Dual Diagnosis and Substance Use Disorder Treatment
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Multidisciplinary Treatment Team Collaboration
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Clinical Social Work Coordination
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Psychiatric Treatment Planning
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Patient Safety and Risk Management
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Electronic Medical Records and Clinical Documentation
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HIPAA and Patient Confidentiality
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Strong Clinical Judgment and Decision-Making
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Communication and Interpersonal Skills
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Trauma-Informed and Patient-Centered Care
Work Environment
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Location: Santa Clara County Main Jail Complex, San Jose, California.
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Practice Setting: Secure correctional healthcare facility providing psychiatric intake, emergency evaluations, and acute psychiatric treatment.
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Patient Population: Newly booked individuals requiring psychiatric assessments, medication management, crisis intervention, and inpatient psychiatric stabilization when necessary.
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Facility Structure: Direct supervision correctional facility with secured housing modules monitored by correctional officers.
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Clinical Team: Collaborate with psychiatrists, clinical social workers, nursing staff, correctional healthcare professionals, and facility personnel.
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Patient Acuity: Broad range of psychiatric presentations, including serious mental illness, acute psychiatric symptoms, and co-occurring behavioral health conditions.
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Clinical Support: Access to clinical social workers who can assist with triage during high-volume intake periods.
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Inpatient Collaboration: Provide additional psychiatric support to the acute inpatient unit when staffing coverage is needed.
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Professional Focus: Deliver ethical, compassionate, evidence-based psychiatric services while maintaining patient safety and adhering to correctional healthcare protocols.
Compensation & Benefits
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Hourly Rate: $210.73 for full-time W-2 employees.
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Comprehensive employee benefits package.
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Attractive 401(k) retirement plan with competitive company match.
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Generous annual bonus opportunities.
Why San Jose, California?
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose offers a diverse metropolitan environment, a Mediterranean climate, and convenient access to Northern California's major attractions.
Residents enjoy:
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Year-round mild weather
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Diverse dining, shopping, and entertainment
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Proximity to San Francisco and the greater Bay Area
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Hiking trails, regional parks, and outdoor recreation
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Easy access to Santa Cruz beaches and the Pacific Coast
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A vibrant cultural and professional community
Apply Today!
Setline Health is seeking psychiatrists interested in making a meaningful impact through correctional mental healthcare.
If you have experience in adult psychiatry, psychiatric intake, emergency psychiatry, or acute inpatient psychiatric treatment, we encourage you to apply.
Join a collaborative clinical team providing essential psychiatric services to individuals within the Santa Clara County correctional healthcare system.
Job Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric intake evaluations for individuals entering the Santa Clara County Main Jail Complex in San Jose, California.
- Assess newly booked patients for acute psychiatric symptoms, serious mental illness, behavioral health crises, and immediate treatment needs.
- Perform psychiatric interviews, mental status examinations, diagnostic assessments, and psychiatric risk evaluations.
- Diagnose and treat psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, and other behavioral health conditions.
- Initiate, continue, prescribe, monitor, and adjust psychiatric medications based on individual patient needs.
- Evaluate patients for suicide risk, self-harm concerns, psychiatric instability, and other urgent behavioral health conditions.
- Determine the appropriate level of psychiatric care, including the need for admission to the acute inpatient psychiatric unit.
- Coordinate psychiatric admissions and transitions between detention booking services and inpatient psychiatric treatment.
- Manage an average caseload of approximately 7–14 psychiatric cases per shift.
- Provide timely psychiatric assessments and treatment recommendations to support safe and efficient detention booking operations.
- Collaborate with clinical social workers to triage lower-acuity patients during periods of increased intake volume.
- Work closely with nursing staff, correctional healthcare professionals, social workers, and facility personnel to coordinate patient care.
- Provide psychiatric consultation, clinical guidance, and treatment recommendations to multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
- Assist with acute inpatient psychiatric coverage when the unit is not fully staffed by three psychiatrists, potentially providing up to 10 hours of inpatient support before returning to detention booking services.
- Evaluate and manage patients with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders.
- Develop individualized, evidence-based psychiatric treatment plans addressing immediate and ongoing behavioral health needs.
- Monitor psychiatric symptoms, medication effectiveness, treatment response, and potential adverse effects.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, progress notes, treatment plans, and clinical documentation.
- Communicate effectively with correctional healthcare staff regarding patient safety, psychiatric treatment needs, and appropriate clinical interventions.
- Follow established facility policies, correctional healthcare procedures, patient confidentiality requirements, and applicable medical regulations.
- Participate in multidisciplinary case discussions and care coordination activities as needed.
- Demonstrate strong clinical judgment and effective decision-making in a fast-paced correctional psychiatric environment.
- Provide compassionate, ethical, trauma-informed, and patient-centered psychiatric care while maintaining professional boundaries and appropriate safety protocols.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical school.
- Successful completion of an accredited Psychiatry residency program.
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry preferred.
- Active, unrestricted California medical license or ability to obtain appropriate licensure before beginning employment.
- Active DEA registration appropriate for psychiatric prescribing responsibilities.
- Experience providing psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and medication management for adult patients.
- Strong knowledge of acute psychiatric conditions, serious mental illness, crisis intervention, and psychiatric stabilization.
- Experience in correctional psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, or acute inpatient psychiatry preferred.
- Ability to conduct comprehensive psychiatric intake evaluations and determine appropriate levels of psychiatric care.
- Experience assessing and managing patients presenting with suicidal ideation, self-harm risk, psychosis, behavioral disturbances, and other psychiatric emergencies.
- Proficiency in psychopharmacology, medication management, and evidence-based psychiatric treatment.
- Experience evaluating patients with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders preferred.
- Ability to identify patients requiring acute inpatient psychiatric admission and coordinate appropriate transitions of care.
- Strong clinical judgment and independent medical decision-making skills in high-acuity psychiatric settings.
- Ability to manage an average caseload of approximately 7–14 psychiatric cases per shift.
- Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary healthcare teams, including psychiatrists, nurses, clinical social workers, and correctional healthcare professionals.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and clinical documentation skills.
- Proficiency with electronic medical records (EMR/EHR) and timely clinical documentation.
- Understanding of correctional healthcare practices, patient confidentiality, professional ethics, and applicable healthcare regulations.
- Ability to work effectively within a secure correctional facility while following established safety and security procedures.
- Flexibility to provide additional clinical support to the acute inpatient psychiatric unit when needed.
- Commitment to compassionate, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and patient-centered psychiatric care.
- Ability to work collaboratively with clinical and correctional staff while maintaining professional boundaries and high standards of patient safety.
Working Hours
- **Employment Type:** Full-Time, W-2.
- **Daily Coverage Hours:** 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM Pacific Time.
- **Coverage Window:** 16 hours of psychiatric detention booking services daily.
- **Work Location:** Santa Clara County Main Jail Complex, San Jose, California.
- **Practice Setting:** Correctional Psychiatry / Detention Booking Services.
- **Primary Assignment:** Psychiatric intake evaluations, medication management, crisis assessments, and treatment of newly booked individuals.
- **Average Caseload:** Approximately 7–14 psychiatric cases per shift.
- **Additional Inpatient Coverage:** May provide up to 10 hours of psychiatric coverage in the acute inpatient unit when the unit is not fully staffed by three psychiatrists.
- **Flexible Clinical Responsibilities:** Following inpatient coverage, the psychiatrist may return to detention booking services to complete the remaining assigned coverage.
- **Clinical Collaboration:** Work alongside nursing staff, clinical social workers, correctional healthcare professionals, and inpatient psychiatric teams.
- **Individual Shift Schedule:** Specific physician shift lengths, assigned workdays, and weekly hours will be confirmed based on facility staffing needs.
Skills
- Adult Psychiatry
- Correctional Psychiatry
- Detention Booking and Psychiatric Intake
- Emergency Psychiatric Evaluations
- Acute Psychiatric Stabilization
- Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessments
- Psychiatric Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis
- Mental Status Examinations
- Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Treatment
- Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorder Management
- Bipolar Disorder and Mood Disorder Treatment
- Psychopharmacology and Medication Management
- Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention
- Self-Harm Risk Assessment
- Crisis Intervention and De-escalation
- Psychiatric Triage and Patient Prioritization
- Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Care
- Inpatient Psychiatric Admission Assessments
- Forensic and Correctional Mental Health
- Dual Diagnosis and Substance Use Disorder Treatment
- Behavioral Health Crisis Management
- Evidence-Based Psychiatric Treatment Planning
- Multidisciplinary Treatment Team Collaboration
- Clinical Social Work Coordination
- Correctional Healthcare Collaboration
- Patient Safety and Risk Management
- Psychiatric Consultation and Clinical Recommendations
- Continuity of Care and Patient Transitions
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR/EHR)
- Clinical Documentation and Medical Record Management
- HIPAA Compliance and Patient Confidentiality
- Correctional Healthcare Policies and Procedures
- Trauma-Informed and Patient-Centered Care
- Culturally Responsive Psychiatric Treatment
- Strong Clinical Judgment and Medical Decision-Making
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
- Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Adaptability in High-Acuity Clinical Environments
- Time Management and Organizational Skills
- Professional Ethics and Clinical Accountability