Sycamores
The Addiction Psychiatrist provides comprehensive psychiatric and addiction treatment services within clinic and telehealth settings. The role involves conducting psychiatric and substance use disorder evaluations, formulating diagnoses, and developing evidence-based treatment plans for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions.
Key Responsibilities
- • Providing ongoing medication management, including prescribing and monitoring Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT).
- • Participating in multidisciplinary team meetings to support integrated, recovery-oriented care.
- • Delivering utilization review, medication monitoring, and quality-assurance activities.
- • Educating clients, families, and caregivers on medication-related and addiction-treatment considerations.
- • Collaborating with juvenile courts, care coordinators, and community partners as needed regarding treatment recommendations.
Required
- • Graduation from an accredited medical school and satisfactory completion of a psychiatric residency program approved by the AMA or the American Osteopathic Association.
- • Must be a Board-Certified Psychiatrist or board eligible.
- • Must possess current California MD License, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner CA license, DEA registration, and NPI number confirmation.
- • Must maintain a minimum of $1,000,000.00/$3,000,000 of professional liability insurance.
- • Ability and comfortable with use of technology is required.
- • Comfort prescribing Medications for Addiction Treatment is required.
Preferred
- • Knowledge of newer medications preferred.
- • Bilingual/Bi-cultural Spanish speaking is desired but not required.
Location Pasadena, California, United States
Position Title: Addiction Psychiatrist
To Apply: Please email your CV or Resume to recruiting@sycamores.org
Company: Sycamores is one of the largest, nonprofit, private children’s mental health and welfare agencies in Los Angeles and Riverside Counties. Sycamores provides a comprehensive continuum of services to over 37,000 children and families annually through a network of facilities stretching across the greater Los Angeles area including the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Commerce and the Antelope Valley in addition to providing mobile crisis service across the entire Riverside County.
State: California
Accreditation: Joint Commission
Job Description:
The Addiction Psychiatrist works alongside a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals, peers support specialists, drug and alcohol counselors. housing specialists, occupational therapists and licensed vocational nurses/licensed psychiatric technicians. The psychiatrist provides comprehensive psychiatric and addiction treatment services within clinic and telehealth settings. Primary responsibilities include conducting psychiatric and substance use disorder evaluations, formulating diagnoses, and developing evidence‑based treatment plans for individuals with co‑occurring mental health and substance use conditions.
Duties include:
- Providing ongoing medication management, including prescribing and monitoring Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT).
- Participating in multidisciplinary team meetings to support integrated, recovery‑oriented care.
- Delivering utilization review, medication monitoring, and quality‑assurance activities.
- Educating clients, families, and caregivers on medication‑related and addiction‑treatment considerations.
- Collaborating with juvenile courts, care coordinators, and community partners as needed regarding treatment recommendations.
Qualifications: Graduation from an accredited medical school and satisfactory completion of a psychiatric residency program approved by the AMA or the American Osteopathic Association. Must be a Board-Certified Psychiatrist or board eligible. Must possess current California MD License, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner CA license, DEA registration, and NPI number confirmation. Must maintain a minimum of $1,000,000.00/$3,000,000 of professional liability insurance. Knowledge of newer medications preferred. Ability and comfortable with use of technology is required. Bilingual/Bi-cultural Spanish speaking is desired but not required. Comfort prescribing Medications for Addiction Treatment is required.
Administration Office: Pasadena, California
Days: Variable, Sycamores has psychiatrists working from one day a week to five days a week.
Contract Compensation: $200–$255 per hour based on experience and qualifications.
Practice Setting: Pasadena, CA or via telehealth
To Apply:
Please email your CV or Resume to recruiting@sycamores.org
All candidates who are presented with a conditional offer of employment must satisfy a pre-employment background check, drug and health screen.
Hathaway-Sycamores is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Further, Hathaway-Sycamores is a Fair Chance employer and complies with California Government Code Section 12952, Employment Discrimination: Conviction History.
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