Department:
02037 GCMG Psychiatry Telepsychiatry: Billingsley - Behavioral Health: Telepsychiatry
Status:
Full time
Benefits Eligible:
Yes
Hou rs Per Week:
40
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Primarily scheduled during standard business hours Monday-Friday; however, the Telepsychiatry program operates 24/7. The position serves as a designated clinical operations resource and may be contacted outside of scheduled hours for urgent workflow, patient-flow, staffing, or escalation concerns requiring leadership support. Periodic onsite attendance is required for onboarding, training, meetings, and other departmental or organizational initiatives.
Pay Range:
$38.20 - $57.30
The Psychotherapist Lead for Telepsychiatry provides behavioral health assessment and care coordination services while serving as the clinical lead for day-to-day telepsychiatry clinical operations. This role maintains an active clinical caseload and supports patient flow, triage of clinical needs, treatment planning, quality outcomes, staff development, and interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure safe, efficient, and patient-centered care delivery.
Major Responsibilities:
Maintains active clinical practice and provides direct patient care support during staffing shortages, patient surges, escalation events, and other operational needs.
Conducts comprehensive behavioral health assessments, establishes diagnoses, and develops, implements, and monitors treatment plans in accordance with professional standards and organizational policies.
Monitors clinical productivity, documentation quality, regulatory compliance, and operational performance metrics, identifying opportunities for improvement and partnering with leadership on action plans.
Leads daily clinical operations, including patient flow, workload prioritization, and telepsychiatry tracking board oversight.
Serves as a clinical resource, providing guidance related to treatment planning, crisis intervention, complex case management, and clinical workflow.
Assists with coordinating clinical coverage to support continuous 24/7/365 service delivery. Proactively identifies coverage gaps, facilitates schedule adjustments, and communicates staffing needs to leadership.
Assists with staff onboarding, orientation, training and professional development activities to support clinical excellence and team effectiveness.
Participates in quality improvement, program development, and regulatory readiness initiatives to enhance patient care, clinical performance, and service delivery.
Leads workflow improvement initiatives and implements solutions that improve quality, efficiency, patient experience, and teammate engagement.
Leads interdisciplinary treatment team to review data for multiple sources to produce the best patient outcomes. Establishes goals with the patient to meet his or her treatment goals that are clinically appropriate to address the stated diagnosis, development focused, and achievable within the anticipated length of stay and updates the treatment plans as appropriate.
Utilizes evidence based therapeutic techniques to address a range of mental health conditions, including but not limited to anxiety disorders, depression, and trauma-related disorders to help patients reach their goals.
Conducts comprehensive assessments, diagnoses, formulates and monitors individualized treatment plans and treatment interventions, which are in accordance with policies.
Provides quality individual, couple, family and/or group therapy, which are focused on the patient's identified diagnosis and needs. Provides education to patient and family as needed.
Assists with human resource responsibilities, which may include: interviewing and selection of new employees, staff development, employee orientation, providing performance feedback, resolution of employee concerns, and employee morale.
Acts as a resource to employees, which includes training/orienting, providing day-to-day work direction, and giving input on…