Medical Director- Psychiatrist

Full-Time Medical Director-Psychiatrist

The Refuge, A Healing Place, is a premier residential treatment center dedicated to providing compassionate, evidence-based care for adults struggling with mental health, trauma, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. Our multidisciplinary team is committed to helping patients achieve lasting healing and recovery in a supportive and therapeutic environment.

We are seeking an accomplished Full-Time Medical Director-Psychiatrist to lead our clinical team at The Refuge, A Healing Place, a nationally recognized provider of behavioral healthcare services. This leadership role offers a competitive salary range of $275,000–$300,000 annually.

Responsibilities include:

• Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry.
• Dual certification in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in the assessment and treatment of substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric conditions.
• Commitment to evidence-based, patient-centered care and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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The Medical Director is responsible for leadership, quality assurance, supervision, and overall medical management of the facility within the boundaries of state and federal regulations and accreditation standards.

Summary of duties includes:

• Responsible for the quality, efficiency and management of delivering services within a facility.
• Define protocols and assist in decision making pertaining to the medical and clinical care of patients.
• Provide direct patient care and assist other departments with direct interactions with physician's staff.
• Directly supervise other professional clinical staff, as well as administrative or support staff.
• Serve as a liaison between the medical staff and other staff within the facility, division or corporate staff, and organizational leadership.
• Monitor and supervise assigned staff to adherence to established medical and clinical policy.
• Provide back up call coverage.
• Serve in a teaching capacity for the training and development of other personnel.
• Secure physical exam and history from the patients.
• Request appropriate diagnostic testing, clinical evaluation, and prescribe medications and treatments.
• Assist in the management of behavioral or mental health problems of patients and maintain current clinical medical records in accordance with federal or state regulation and industry practice, as well as facility, clinic or corporate policies and procedures.
• Manage the finances and revenue of the facility including budgets, billing and spending.
• Develop organizational goals and objectives and devise strategies and policies to meet those goals.
• Develop, approve, implement and update the general policies, protocols and procedures of the facility.

Qualifications include:

• Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required.
• Board certified in Psychiatry required.
• Previous experience as a Medical Director preferred.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Current, unrestricted license to practice medicine by the state in which the facility operates.
• Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working.