Part-Time Medical Director – Mental Health, Substance Use

Job Description:

• Support planned New Jersey outpatient mental-health and substance-use treatment services, with potential expansion into intensive outpatient and residential addiction treatment
• Focus initially on clinical planning, licensing documentation and policy development
• Provide medical leadership, chart review, virtual case conferences, consultation with treating clinicians and quality improvement
• Review proposed services and patient ages
• Develop admission criteria, clinical policies, medication protocols and emergency/referral procedures
• Support clinical recruitment
• Supply credentials for medical-director designation and payer enrollment
• Establish appropriate supervision or collaboration arrangements
• Maintain agreed clinical availability
• Provide patient appointments and prescribing only if separately agreed
• Define scope, coverage plan and compensation for additional programs or locations

Requirements:

• MD or DO with an active, unrestricted New Jersey medical license
• Ability to meet medical-director qualifications for each assigned program
• Psychiatry board certification or eligibility preferred
• Documented addiction-medicine or addiction-psychiatry qualifications and experience appropriate to assigned services
• Experience with outpatient clinical leadership, electronic documentation and quality assurance
• Appropriate DEA and New Jersey controlled-substance credentials when required for assigned duties
• Payer participation eligibility and appropriate malpractice arrangements before engagement
• Preferred: New Jersey facility licensing and Medicaid enrollment
• Preferred: outpatient, IOP and residential addiction leadership
• Preferred: work with psychiatric nurse practitioners
• Preferred: child and adolescent experience where applicable
• Submit CV, New Jersey credentials, board certifications, relevant program experience, patient age groups served, availability, current clinical leadership commitments and proposed startup and monthly fees

Benefits:

• Remote administrative and consultation work
• Part-time scheduling within agreed coverage needs
• Opportunity to help develop clinical programs
• Compensation negotiable based on qualifications, responsibilities and hours
• Startup work, ongoing oversight and patient care will be priced separately in a written agreement