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Job Description
Nemours Children’s Health is seeking a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with an interest and experience in Consultation-Liaison (CL) Psychiatry to join our team in Wilmington, Delaware.
The successful candidate will join an established consultation service providing psychiatric care to children and adolescents with complex medical and behavioral health needs. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with multidisciplinary medical and surgical teams while contributing to the continued growth of integrated behavioral health services across Nemours Children’s Health.
The Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service includes psychiatry, behavioral health social work, BCBA and psychiatric nurse specialists. The team provides care for medical and surgical patients in close collaboration with a broad range of pediatric specialties, including critical care, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, orthopedics, rehabilitation, neurology, neurosurgery, palliative care, developmental medicine, pediatric psychology, and others.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide psychiatric consultation across a variety of settings, including the emergency department, inpatient acute and critical care units, and ambulatory specialty clinics.
- Support medically complex youth with co-occurring behavioral health needs.
- Partner with multidisciplinary teams to provide integrated, whole-child care and advance clinical programs, quality improvement initiatives, and care pathways.
- Educate and supervise child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, psychiatry residents, medical students, and other trainees, with an academic appointment available through Thomas Jefferson University.
- Participate in service call and coverage responsibilities.
The role also provides meaningful opportunities to contribute to program development, medical education, quality improvement, process improvement initiatives, leadership, and clinical scholarship. The incoming psychiatrist will have the opportunity to strengthen existing clinical partnerships while helping develop and support Nemours’ investment in innovative therapies and care models.
Qualifications:
- MD or DO from an accredited medical school or equivalent.
- Completion of an accredited Child and Adolescent Psychiatry residency or equivalent training pathway.
- Board certified or board eligible in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, consistent with institutional requirements.
- Demonstrated interest or experience in Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- Strong clinical judgment, communication, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.
- Commitment to high-quality, evidence-based, family-centered care.
Candidates with five or more years of post-training clinical experience and those with substantial Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry practice are highly preferred. Experience caring for medically complex pediatric patients and an interest in medical education, quality improvement and program development are also highly valued. Candidates with less experience who demonstrate clinical skills and relevant consultation liaison and other experience are encouraged to apply.
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits: health, life, dental, vision
- Mortgage assistance, relocation packages and 403B with employer match, 457 retirement savings plans
- Licensure, CME and dues allowance
- Not-for-profit status; eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
- An academic appointment at Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College will be proposed at a rank commensurate with experience and performance.
- An innovative, collegial environment with supportive leadership
- An organization-wide commitment to developing the healthiest workforce in the nation through a robust and wholistic network of wellness/well-being resources and initiatives.
About Nemours Children’s Health:
Nemours Children’s Health is committed to transforming the health of children through comprehensive, family-centered care. This position offers the opportunity to work alongside dedicated pediatric specialists, educate and mentor the next generation of clinicians, contribute to the continued growth of behavioral health services, and help shape evolving models of pediatric consultation-liaison care.
Join our team and help us advance the health of children by providing exceptional, collaborative behavioral health care to children and families.
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About Us
Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.
Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.
Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.
Learn more at Nemours.org.
