Telehealth Psychiatrist, PRN

Join our team of dedicated healthcare professionals as a Telehealth Psychiatrist, PRN, and play a critical role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to residents in skilled nursing facilities across seven states.

This is a PRN position that requires the psychiatrist to work remotely, providing psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and consultations to residents in long-term care settings. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering psychiatric care via telehealth platforms, particularly in managing acute psychiatric crises.

• Provide virtual psychiatric evaluations, diagnose mental health conditions, and manage psychiatric medications for SNF residents.
• Offer consultations via secure telehealth platforms, addressing both acute psychiatric emergencies and ongoing care needs.
• Lead crisis interventions and emergency psychiatric assessments through telehealth, responding to acute mental health crises such as suicidal ideation, severe agitation, psychosis, or aggressive behaviors.
• Collaborate with on-site medical and nursing teams to ensure the safety and well-being of residents during psychiatric emergencies.
• Provide clinical oversight and supervision to psychiatric NPs, LISWs, and therapists delivering telehealth mental health services.
• Ensure that telepsychiatry interventions are aligned with evidence-based practices and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with behavioral health care managers to streamline telepsychiatry services, ensuring smooth transitions between in-person and virtual care.
• Assist in creating telehealth workflows that integrate with SNF operations.
• Prescribe and manage psychotropic medications via telehealth consultations, ensuring that residents' psychiatric medication regimens are closely monitored and adjusted as necessary.
• Provide medication education to on-site staff, residents, and families through virtual meetings.
• Ensure that all telehealth psychiatric services follow state and federal regulations, including CMS, Medicare, and telehealth-specific rules.
• Ensure adherence to privacy standards such as HIPAA while providing remote care.

• MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.
• Board-certified in Psychiatry, with a focus on geriatric or adult psychiatry preferred.
• Licensed to practice psychiatry in the state, may require licensure in multiple states.
• Experience delivering psychiatric care via telehealth platforms, particularly in managing acute psychiatric crises.
• Experience working in long-term care or geriatric settings is preferred.
• Ability to collaborate with psychiatric nurse practitioners, LISWs, and behavioral health care managers in a virtual environment.

• Familiarity with CMS, Medicare regulations related to telehealth.
• Experience with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems and telehealth-specific documentation practices.
• Expertise in emergency psychiatric care, including risk assessments and crisis intervention.

• Ability to effectively use telehealth platforms for conducting psychiatric assessments, consultations, and follow-ups while ensuring a therapeutic environment.
• Expertise in handling psychiatric emergencies remotely, including risk assessment, de-escalation, and coordination with on-site staff to ensure immediate care.
• Ability to supervise and mentor psychiatric NPs, therapists, and social workers, particularly in the context of telehealth service delivery.
• Excellent communication skills to facilitate virtual collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, residents, and their families.
• Ability to adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape of telehealth in long-term care and stay updated on legal and regulatory changes.
• Ability to understand state regulations for involuntary psychiatric treatment.