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AbsoluteCare
Medical Director of Integrated Psychiatry
The Medical Director of Integrated Psychiatry is a senior clinical leader responsible for blending direct psychiatric care with enterprise leadership to develop and oversee an integrated psychiatric model of care. This role focuses on individuals with Serious Mental Illness, aiming to improve quality, reduce unnecessary inpatient and emergency utilization, and align psychiatric practice with value-based care goals. The position involves approximately 50% direct patient care and 50% program development and leadership at launch, evolving toward increased strategic and system-level leadership over time.
Key Responsibilities
- • Serve as the organizational leader for psychiatric care within AbsoluteCare’s shared services model.
- • Partner closely with the Vice President of Behavioral Health to define and uphold standards of excellence in psychiatric care and integration with primary care and complex care teams.
- • Champion high-quality, person-centered care for individuals living with Serious Mental Illness across all markets.
- • Provide direct psychiatric care to AbsoluteCare members through in-person care, telepsychiatry, and/or clinical oversight, based on organizational and market needs.
- • Serve as a hands-on clinical leader for complex psychiatric cases, particularly for individuals living with Serious Mental Illness.
- • Model best practices in integrated, team-based psychiatric care within a value-based care environment.
- • Support interdisciplinary care planning through consultation, supervision, and case review with psychiatric providers, primary care teams, and behavioral health clinicians.
- • Adjust direct clinical care responsibilities over time as the program grows, with increasing emphasis on leadership, quality, and system design.
- • Provide clinical oversight and mentorship to Psychiatrists and Psychiatric APPs to ensure evidence-based, high-quality care.
- • Establish, monitor, and continuously improve key performance indicators (KPIs) for psychiatric and behavioral health programs, with emphasis on reducing avoidable inpatient and emergency department utilization, improving engagement, continuity, and clinical outcomes, and supporting performance under value-based care contracts.
- • Lead psychiatric quality initiatives and clinical affordability efforts aligned with organizational goals.
- • Integrate telepsychiatry into the psychiatric care model to improve access, continuity, and scalability.
- • Integrate intensive outpatient therapy and other higher-acuity behavioral health services into the broader care continuum.
- • Lead and participate in pilot programs and innovation initiatives across psychiatry and behavioral health, translating learnings into scalable solutions.
- • Partner with local market and national leadership to support recruitment, onboarding, development, and retention of psychiatric providers.
- • Foster a culture of clinical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and professional growth.
- • Support training, mentoring, and onboarding efforts for psychiatric clinicians across markets.
- • Communicate program updates, performance metrics, and outcomes to psychiatric teams and organizational leadership.
- • Travel as needed to care centers to observe care delivery and provide training, onboarding, and clinical support.
- • Participate in organizational growth and expansion initiatives as psychiatric leadership is required.
Required
- • MD or DO with active, unrestricted medical license in the state of employment.
- • Board Certification in Psychiatry required; dual certification in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine strongly preferred.
- • 5+ years of combined clinical and administrative leadership experience, including leadership of interdisciplinary teams.
- • Experience across outpatient clinics, community-based settings, and inpatient psychiatric units.
- • Demonstrated experience in training, mentoring, and developing clinicians.
- • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence across disciplines and organizational levels.
- • Strong problem-solving, project management, and organizational skills.
- • Independent, mission-driven self-starter with a strong interest in population health, healthcare utilization management, value-based care, and continuous care model development.
Preferred
- • Dual certification in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine strongly preferred.
Company Overview
Industry: Healthcare Technology
Company Size: 500-1,000 employees
Founded: 2015
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
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About the Company
Leading healthcare technology company focused on improving patient outcomes through innovative digital solutions. We're transforming the way healthcare is delivered with cutting-edge technology and data-driven insights. Our platform serves over 10,000 healthcare professionals and has processed millions of patient interactions.
Recent News & Updates
Series B
Raised $50M Series B funding - Jan 2024
Award
Named "Best Healthcare Startup" by TechCrunch - Dec 2023
Growth
Expanded to 5 new states - Nov 2023
About AbsoluteCare
AbsoluteCare is a national value-based care organization designed to serve society’s most complex and historically underserved patients. Our members often live with serious mental illness, multiple chronic medical conditions, and significant social instability—resulting in fragmented care, avoidable emergency department visits, and frequent hospitalizations.
We exist to change that reality.
Through deeply integrated, team-based care, AbsoluteCare delivers comprehensive primary care, psychiatry, behavioral health, complex care management, pharmacy, infusion, lab, and imaging services—alongside robust community-based supports addressing housing instability, food insecurity, and social isolation. Our model is grounded in dignity, equity, accountability, and outcomes, not volume.
Role Summary
The Medical Director of Integrated Psychiatry is a senior clinical leader within AbsoluteCare’s shared services model and a key partner to the Chief Clinical Officer and Vice President of Behavioral Health. This role blends direct clinical care with enterprise leadership, ensuring psychiatric strategy remains grounded in real-world patient care while advancing scalable, high-impact models for value-based populations.
At launch, this position is structured as an approximately 50% direct patient care / 50% program development and leadership role. Direct care may include in-person visits, telepsychiatry, and clinical oversight of complex cases, depending on program and market needs. As the integrated psychiatry program matures and scales, the balance of direct care and administrative leadership will evolve over time, with a gradual shift toward increased strategic, quality, and system-level leadership.
The Medical Director will design, oversee, and continuously improve an integrated psychiatric model of care, with particular focus on individuals living with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), improving quality, reducing unnecessary inpatient and emergency utilization, and aligning psychiatric practice with the goals of value-based care.
This role is ideal for a psychiatrist who wants to lead at the intersection of clinical excellence, population health, and healthcare system transformation.
Key Responsibilities: Clinical Care, Program Leadership, and System Design
Enterprise Leadership of Integrated Psychiatry
This role operates in a professional office and clinical environment and routinely uses standard office and clinical equipment. The position may require clinical attire such as lab coats, scrubs, or personal protective equipment. The role involves exposure to clinical environments and patient care settings. Travel to care centers or corporate offices is required based on organizational needs.
Physical Requirements
All employees are expected to maintain the confidentiality, security, and privacy of information owned by or entrusted to AbsoluteCare. Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time. This job description reflects essential functions but does not limit additional responsibilities that may be assigned.
AbsoluteCare is a national value-based care organization designed to serve society’s most complex and historically underserved patients. Our members often live with serious mental illness, multiple chronic medical conditions, and significant social instability—resulting in fragmented care, avoidable emergency department visits, and frequent hospitalizations.
We exist to change that reality.
Through deeply integrated, team-based care, AbsoluteCare delivers comprehensive primary care, psychiatry, behavioral health, complex care management, pharmacy, infusion, lab, and imaging services—alongside robust community-based supports addressing housing instability, food insecurity, and social isolation. Our model is grounded in dignity, equity, accountability, and outcomes, not volume.
Role Summary
The Medical Director of Integrated Psychiatry is a senior clinical leader within AbsoluteCare’s shared services model and a key partner to the Chief Clinical Officer and Vice President of Behavioral Health. This role blends direct clinical care with enterprise leadership, ensuring psychiatric strategy remains grounded in real-world patient care while advancing scalable, high-impact models for value-based populations.
At launch, this position is structured as an approximately 50% direct patient care / 50% program development and leadership role. Direct care may include in-person visits, telepsychiatry, and clinical oversight of complex cases, depending on program and market needs. As the integrated psychiatry program matures and scales, the balance of direct care and administrative leadership will evolve over time, with a gradual shift toward increased strategic, quality, and system-level leadership.
The Medical Director will design, oversee, and continuously improve an integrated psychiatric model of care, with particular focus on individuals living with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), improving quality, reducing unnecessary inpatient and emergency utilization, and aligning psychiatric practice with the goals of value-based care.
This role is ideal for a psychiatrist who wants to lead at the intersection of clinical excellence, population health, and healthcare system transformation.
Key Responsibilities: Clinical Care, Program Leadership, and System Design
Enterprise Leadership of Integrated Psychiatry
- Serve as the organizational leader for psychiatric care within AbsoluteCare’s shared services model.
- Partner closely with the Vice President of Behavioral Health to define and uphold standards of excellence in psychiatric care and integration with primary care and complex care teams.
- Champion high-quality, person-centered care for individuals living with Serious Mental Illness across all markets.
- Provide direct psychiatric care to AbsoluteCare members through in-person care, telepsychiatry, and/or clinical oversight, based on organizational and market needs.
- Serve as a hands-on clinical leader for complex psychiatric cases, particularly for individuals living with Serious Mental Illness.
- Model best practices in integrated, team-based psychiatric care within a value-based care environment.
- Support interdisciplinary care planning through consultation, supervision, and case review with psychiatric providers, primary care teams, and behavioral health clinicians.
- Adjust direct clinical care responsibilities over time as the program grows, with increasing emphasis on leadership, quality, and system design.
- Provide clinical oversight and mentorship to Psychiatrists and Psychiatric APPs to ensure evidence-based, high-quality care.
- Establish, monitor, and continuously improve key performance indicators (KPIs) for psychiatric and behavioral health programs, with emphasis on:
- Reducing avoidable inpatient and emergency department utilization
- Improving engagement, continuity, and clinical outcomes
- Supporting performance under value-based care contracts
- Lead psychiatric quality initiatives and clinical affordability efforts aligned with organizational goals.
- Integrate telepsychiatry into the psychiatric care model to improve access, continuity, and scalability.
- Integrate intensive outpatient therapy and other higher-acuity behavioral health services into the broader care continuum.
- Lead and participate in pilot programs and innovation initiatives across psychiatry and behavioral health, translating learnings into scalable solutions.
- Partner with local market and national leadership to support recruitment, onboarding, development, and retention of psychiatric providers.
- Foster a culture of clinical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and professional growth.
- Support training, mentoring, and onboarding efforts for psychiatric clinicians across markets.
- Communicate program updates, performance metrics, and outcomes to psychiatric teams and organizational leadership.
- Travel as needed to care centers to observe care delivery and provide training, onboarding, and clinical support.
- Participate in organizational growth and expansion initiatives as psychiatric leadership is required.
- MD or DO with active, unrestricted medical license in the state of employment.
- Board Certification in Psychiatry required; dual certification in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine strongly preferred.
- 5+ years of combined clinical and administrative leadership experience, including leadership of interdisciplinary teams.
- Experience across outpatient clinics, community-based settings, and inpatient psychiatric units.
- Demonstrated experience in training, mentoring, and developing clinicians.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence across disciplines and organizational levels.
- Strong problem-solving, project management, and organizational skills.
- Independent, mission-driven self-starter with a strong interest in population health, healthcare utilization management, value-based care, and continuous care model development.
This role operates in a professional office and clinical environment and routinely uses standard office and clinical equipment. The position may require clinical attire such as lab coats, scrubs, or personal protective equipment. The role involves exposure to clinical environments and patient care settings. Travel to care centers or corporate offices is required based on organizational needs.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to communicate clearly and exchange accurate information consistently.
- Ability to remain stationary for extended periods of time.
- Frequent use of computers, phones, keyboards, and standard office equipment.
- Providers (Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Advanced Practice Providers – matrixed/indirect)
All employees are expected to maintain the confidentiality, security, and privacy of information owned by or entrusted to AbsoluteCare. Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time. This job description reflects essential functions but does not limit additional responsibilities that may be assigned.
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