The posting
Job Description
This role provides clinical leadership in outpatient psychiatric services while maintaining an active general adult psychiatry caseload.
The position blends direct patient care, outpatient program leadership, and multidisciplinary collaboration in a community mental health setting. The focus is high-quality, evidence-based, recovery-oriented care for diverse and underserved populations.
This role is grounded in a patient-first mission, emphasizing access, dignity, engagement, and high-quality psychiatric care.
Clinical Leadership & Direct Care
- Provide clinical leadership for outpatient general psychiatry services.
- Maintain an active outpatient caseload (general adult psychiatry focus).
- Provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, and medication management.
- Manage a broad range of conditions including mood, anxiety, psychotic, trauma-related, ADHD, and co-occurring substance use disorders.
- Support case consultation and clinical decision-making for outpatient teams.
- Promote evidence-based, measurement-based, and recovery-oriented care.
- Ensure high-quality, safe, and continuous patient care.
Outpatient Operations & Program Support
- Oversee daily outpatient clinic operations and care coordination workflows.
- Collaborate with therapists, nurses, case managers, peer specialists, and primary care.
- Improve access to timely outpatient psychiatric care for underserved populations.
- Support telepsychiatry and integrated behavioral health expansion.
- Use quality and outcomes data to improve access, engagement, and retention.
Innovation & System Transformation
- Support innovative, evidence-based outpatient care models.
- Promote a “yes more than no” approach to improve access and reduce barriers.
- Participate in piloting new care models and workflow improvements.
- Measure outcomes using quality, access, and engagement metrics.
- Help transform systems to improve equity, access, and patient engagement in mental health care.
- Collaborate on redesigning care delivery for better population outcomes.
Compliance & Quality
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory, licensing, and accreditation standards.
- Participate in quality improvement, peer review, and risk management activities.
- Support best practices in documentation and clinical standards.
Education & Mentorship
- Mentor psychiatrists, NPs, residents, and clinical staff.
- Support a collaborative, recovery-oriented outpatient environment.
- Participate in teaching, supervision, and community education as needed.
Leadership Growth Opportunity
- Grow into expanded leadership roles as services expand.
- Serve as a role model for recovery-oriented care and evidence-based medicine across the multidisciplinary team.
- Support culture-building focused on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Participate in planning for future behavioral health expansion, including a planned Mental Health Crisis Center (2029).
- Contribute to service line development and long-term system design. Note:
- May include evening, weekend, or on-call rotation coverage due to the nature of crisis work.
Qualifications
Education
- MD or DO from an accredited institution
Experience
- 3–5 years of clinical psychiatry experience (outpatient experience required; strong candidates with less experience may be considered)
- Experience in outpatient psychiatry or community mental health settings
- Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams
- Strong understanding of outpatient behavioral health systems and quality improvement
- Experience with Medicaid, safety-net, or underserved populations
- Experience with collaborative care or telepsychiatry
- Academic teaching, supervision, or clinical education experience preferred.
Certification
- Board Certified in Psychiatry
Licensure
- Active, unrestricted Florida medical license
Registrations
- N/A
Training
- N/A
About Us
The Health Care District of Palm Beach County is an independent special taxing district that has served as a healthcare safety net for more than 36 years to fill in gaps in access to healthcare services. This unique healthcare system covers the entire county and provides a wide range of services such as nine community health centers (Federally Qualified Health Centers) which serve everyone regardless of ability to pay; school health teams in 172 public schools; a lifesaving Trauma Hawk aeromedical helicopter program; a rural, public teaching hospital, Lakeside Medical Center; an award-winning skilled nursing center; a ground ambulance program for Health Care District patients needing a higher level of care and the county’s Trauma Agency, which ensures quality outcomes within the county’s trauma system and leads initiatives to prevent traumatic injury.
We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, military or veteran status, age, sex, pregnancy status, genetic information, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation or identification status, or any other legally recognized category protected by jurisdictional, state or federal law. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.
We are also committed to maintaining a safe, healthy, and productive work environment for all employees. As such, we are a Drug-Free Workplace.
The Health Care District of Palm Beach County is an E-Verify participating employer and will use E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.
This role may require Agency of Health Care Administration (AHCA) background screening and clearance. As required under House Bill 531, applicants may review AHCA’s education and awareness information at the following link: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/
