Job Overview
Part-Time Psychiatrist – Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
Location: Westport, CT
Schedule: Part-Time
Population: Ages 18+
Program: Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
Reports to: Chief Medical Officer and CEO
About the Role
We are seeking a compassionate, experienced, and collaborative Part-Time Psychiatrist to join our Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) and provide psychiatric care to patients experiencing acute behavioral health challenges.
The psychiatrist will work as an integral member of a multidisciplinary treatment team, providing psychiatric evaluations, medication management, diagnostic formulation, risk assessment, and ongoing clinical oversight. This is an opportunity for a psychiatrist who values relationship-based care, collaborative treatment, and meaningful clinical engagement within a structured outpatient setting.
Our PHP provides patients with a high level of clinical support while allowing them to remain connected to their homes, families, schools, work, and communities. The psychiatrist will play an important role in helping patients stabilize so they can develop skills, and successfully transition to a lower level of care.
Key Responsibilities
Psychiatric Evaluation & Treatment
- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and diagnostic assessments.
- Develop individualized psychiatric treatment recommendations.
- Provide ongoing medication management and psychiatric follow-up.
- Monitor treatment response, medication effectiveness, side effects, and clinical changes.
- Order and review laboratory or other diagnostic testing as clinically indicated.
- Provide patient education regarding diagnoses, medications, treatment options, and recovery.
- Utilize evidence-based and measurement-informed approaches to psychiatric treatment.
Risk Assessment & Clinical Safety
- Assess suicide risk, self-harm, aggression/violence risk, substance use, and other psychiatric safety concerns.
- Participate in safety planning and clinical decision-making regarding changes in level of care.
- Provide timely clinical response to significant changes in patient presentation.
- Collaborate with the treatment team regarding patients whose needs may exceed the capabilities of PHP.
- Participate in emergency and higher-level-of-care decision-making as appropriate.
Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Participate as an active member of the multidisciplinary treatment team.
- Collaborate closely with therapists, dietitians, counselors and other members of the clinical team, as applicable.
- Participate in psychiatric rounds meetings, case consultation, and clinical staffing.
- Provide psychiatric perspective and recommendations regarding treatment goals and interventions.
- Maintain consistent communication with the treatment team regarding medication changes, risk concerns, and clinical recommendations.
Family & Support System Engagement
- Engage families and support persons as clinically appropriate and with appropriate consent.
- Provide psychoeducation regarding psychiatric diagnoses, medications, symptoms, and recovery.
- Collaborate with families around safety, treatment adherence, and transition planning.
- Support developmentally appropriate patient autonomy while maintaining appropriate clinical oversight.
Care Coordination
- Coordinate with outpatient psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, schools, and other community providers as appropriate.
- Assist with transition and discharge planning.
- Provide appropriate clinical handoff to outpatient providers and/or higher or lower levels of care.
- Facilitate continuity of psychiatric care following discharge.
Documentation & Compliance
- Complete psychiatric evaluations, progress notes, medication orders, treatment plans, and other required documentation accurately and within established timeframes.
- Maintain compliance with applicable federal and state regulations, professional standards, and organizational policies.
- Maintain appropriate licensure, DEA registration, and other required credentials.
Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a psychiatrist who is:
- Warm, approachable, and clinically grounded.
- Comfortable working with patients who may be experiencing significant emotional distress.
- Collaborative and respectful of the expertise of other disciplines.
- Comfortable balancing patient autonomy with clinical accountability and safety.
- Able to work effectively within a structured treatment environment.
- Skilled at communicating complex psychiatric information in a way patients and families can understand.
- Comfortable working with both clinical complexity and diagnostic uncertainty.
- Interested in treating the whole person rather than simply managing medications.
- Experience working with patients who are diagnosed with Eating Disorders
Qualifications
Required:
- MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
- Board eligible or board certified in Psychiatry.
- Active state medical license or eligibility for licensure in Connecticut.
- Current DEA registration.
- Experience providing psychiatric evaluation and medication management.
Preferred:
- Experience working in PHP, IOP, inpatient, residential, or other intensive behavioral health settings.
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary treatment team.
- Experience with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma-related disorders, OCD, ADHD, eating disorders or other common PHP diagnoses.
Work Location: In person
