Medical Director of Integrated Psychiatry

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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

• 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.

Direct Clinical Care (Approx. 50% at Launch)

• 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.

 

Clinical Oversight, Quality, and Performance

• 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.

 

Model Development and Innovation

• 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.

Talent Development and Team Leadership

• 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.

Communication, Partnership, and Growth

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

Working Conditions

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.

Direct Reports

• Providers (Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Advanced Practice Providers – matrixed/indirect)

Additional Information

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.

Why Work at AbsoluteCare?

At AbsoluteCare, we serve the most vulnerable individuals in America. These are our neighbors, people who are at higher risk for disease or who have multiple, complex, chronic illnesses. Often, they deal with an unequal healthcare system and wind up seeking basic care from emergency rooms. We take these patients out of those spaces and turn them into members: people who are entitled to some of the best, most focused care this country has to offer. 

We call this “care beyond medicine.” We have turned the doctor’s office into a comprehensive care center. Here, we surround our members with a core care team of doctors, nurses, social workers, and medical assistants who have the time and skills to get to know our members’ needs. We make the most important services available to our members under one roof. This includes a pharmacy, X-rays, a blood lab, nutrition services, urgent care, and much more.

We don’t stop at our four walls. We engage members in the communities where we all live to find the people who need us most. Through these community care teams, we remove the barriers to healthcare that so many people face daily. And it works. 

Our unique care is guided by our core values of accountability, caring, trust, and teamwork. We call it ACT².

AbsoluteCare, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or policy.

EEO Employer Verbiage: AbsoluteCare, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or policy.