Employment Opportunities
Join Pacific Psychiatry’s team of respected clinicians and staff, and grow with our practice. Our small, privately owned commercial clinic will be the last practice you’ll ever want to work with!
Our growing team is passionate and committed to meeting the underserved mental health needs of the beautiful Central Coast community. We enjoy a healthy family work environment, believe and engage in best-practices, and aspire to be accountable, supportive and compassionate to those we serve as well as one another.
Pacific Psychiatry provides highly competitive salaries and benefits to its practitioners, as well as bonus opportunities.
Outpatient Psychiatrist
Our Outpatient Psychiatrists provide continuous and comprehensive services necessary for the promotion of optimal mental health, prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders, and health maintenance to adults and adolescents. This includes the assessment, diagnosis, and management of mental health problems and psychiatric disorders as well as the prescription and management of medication.
Education/experience required: Experience in a psychiatric setting, CA License preferred.
Typical Duties & Responsibilities:
- Thorough initial psychiatric evaluation of the patient leading to a differential diagnosis and treatment plan of care.
- Knowledge of and adherence to professionally accepted standards of care such as treatment guidelines put out by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) or equivalent practice standards of care.
- Maintain a customer-oriented approach to meeting patient needs in an expedient manner, involving the family in the plan of care as appropriate.
- Maintain confidentiality and patient privacy.
- Document care provided meeting standards for chart reviews.
- Seek consultations as appropriate, act as a consultant as requested.
- Take an active role in contributing to the improvement of office functioning.
- Maintain an effective panel size and is responsible for an average of 15 patient visits per day.
- It is desirable that the psychiatrist would supervise up to 2 advanced practice clinicians for which a competitive stipend would be compensated.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Our Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners provide continuous and comprehensive services necessary for the promotion of optimal mental health, prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders, and health maintenance to adults and adolescents. This includes the assessment, diagnosis, and management of mental health problems and psychiatric disorders as well as the prescription and management of medication.
Skills required: Our Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners must be able to communicate clearly and kindly both in writing and verbally with patients, health care team members, families, and school staff, as well as function independently with regards to most clinical decision making. We look for team members who are compassionate, caring, and relate well to patients in addition to being well-versed in mental health care and assessments. Our Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners must be able to work collaboratively with other on-site mental health providers as well as with our community PCPs and school personnel.
Education/experience required: Master's prepared Nurse Practitioner with Board Certification in Psychiatry, with 3-5 or more years’ experience working in an ambulatory psychiatric setting.
Typical Duties & Responsibilities:
- Thorough initial psychiatric evaluation of the patient leading to a differential diagnosis and treatment plan of care.
- Knowledge of and adherence to professionally accepted standards of care such as treatment guidelines put out by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) or equivalent practice standards of care.
- Maintain a customer-oriented approach to meeting patient needs in an expedient manner, involving the family in the plan of care as appropriate.
- Maintain confidentiality and patient privacy.
- Document care provided meeting standards for chart reviews.
- Seek consultations as appropriate, act as a consultant as requested.
- Take an active role in contributing to the improvement of office functioning.
- Maintain an effective panel size and is responsible for an average of 15 patient visits per day.
Physician Assistant (Board Certified in Psychiatry)
Our Physician Assistants provide continuous and comprehensive services necessary for the promotion of optimal mental health, prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders, and health maintenance to adults and adolescents. This includes the assessment, diagnosis, and management of mental health problems and psychiatric disorders as well as the prescription and management of medication.
Skills required: Our Physician Assistants must be able to communicate clearly and kindly both in writing and verbally with patients, health care team members, families, and school staff, as well as function independently with regards to most clinical decision making. We look for team members who are compassionate, caring, and relate well to patients in addition to being well-versed in mental health care and assessments. Our Physician Assistants must be able to work collaboratively with other on-site mental health providers as well as with our community PCPs and school personnel.
Education/experience required: Physician Assistants must be Board Certified in Psychiatry with 3-5 or more years’ experience working in an ambulatory psychiatric setting.
Typical Duties & Responsibilities:
- Thorough initial psychiatric evaluation of the patient leading to a differential diagnosis and treatment plan of care.
- Knowledge of and adherence to professionally accepted standards of care such as treatment guidelines put out by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) or equivalent practice standards of care.
- Maintain a customer-oriented approach to meeting patient needs in an expedient manner, involving the family in the plan of care as appropriate.
- Maintain confidentiality and patient privacy.
- Document care provided meeting standards for chart reviews.
- Seek consultations as appropriate, act as a consultant as requested.
- Take an active role in contributing to the improvement of office functioning.
- Maintain an effective panel size and is responsible for an average of 15 patient visits per day.