Virtual Treating Psychiatrist (Virtual, Part-Time)

Our Vision:

Constella Care supports people with serious mental illness by providing comprehensive care and connecting them to the right resources at each stage of their journey.

At Constella, we believe that everyone living with a serious mental illness deserves the opportunity to progress toward a healthier, more stable life. Our mission is to transform care for people with serious mental illness by engaging them where they are, providing comprehensive and innovative treatment plans, and connecting patients to expansive community resources for longitudinal support.

If you're inspired by our mission to connect the dots of complex care to improve life for people living with serious mental illness, we'd love for you to join us. Together, we can make a difference, starting with this role.

What You'll Own:

• Carry a direct virtual panel of adults living with serious mental illness, providing longitudinal psychiatric care including diagnostic evaluation, psychotropic medication management, and crisis stabilization

• Serve as the clinical psychiatry resource for Constella's NP pod, available during scheduled weekly blocks for warm hand-offs, curbside consultation, and real-time case review when complex behavioral health needs arise mid-visit

• Collaborate with NPs on psychotropic regimen design, especially for members with co-occurring conditions, treatment resistance, or high medication complexity

• Leverage Constella's on-the-ground team including NPs, MAs, and CHWs to ensure the clinical groundwork is done before and between your visits: labs ordered and resulted, symptom checks completed, medication reconciliation confirmed, and key collateral gathered so your virtual time is used at the top of your license

• Partner with CHWs, Social Workers, and MAs as part of an integrated care team, understanding that psychiatric stabilization rarely happens in isolation from housing, substances, and social context

• Coordinate with inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis services, and community providers to manage transitions of care and prevent unnecessary hospitalization

• Contribute to collaborative practice agreements and provide the supervisory structure NPs need to work at the top of their license

• Document clinical work thoroughly and on time in our EHR

• Help shape the psychiatric model itself. Your clinical judgment and feedback will directly influence how Constella builds and scales its behavioral health infrastructure in Kentucky

Who We Need:

• A board-certified psychiatrist (MD or DO) licensed in Kentucky or willing to obtain licensure promptly, with experience treating adults with serious mental illness (schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar disorder, treatment-resistant depression, and co-occurring SUD)

• Someone comfortable in a collaborative, NP-forward care model and able to serve as a trusted clinical anchor. A clinician who has worked in community mental health, CCBHC, FQHC, or safety-net settings and understands what psychiatric care looks like outside private practice

• Available for consistent warm hand-off windows each week (specific blocks to be determined collaboratively, but reliability during those windows is essential)

• Comfortable with virtual care as a primary modality, and realistic about both its strengths and its limits for this population

• Someone who gives and receives feedback easily, and who wants to help build a model rather than inherit one

Logistics & Structure:

• Location: Fully virtual; Kentucky licensure required or willing to obtain promptly (Constella will reimburse licensing fees)

• Starting commitment: Part-time, with specific hours and session structure determined together; path to full-time as Constella's Kentucky panel grows

• Warm hand-off availability: A few defined blocks per week, scheduled in advance and agreed upon mutually

• Compensation: $275 - $300 per hour

What Success Looks Like:

• A stable virtual panel of members receiving consistent, high-quality psychiatric care

• Enabling NPs who feel clinically supported and confident managing behavioral health complexity between consults

• Reduced psychiatric crisis episodes, avoidable ED visits, and inpatient admissions over time

• Strong relationships with your pod, with community psychiatric resources, and with inpatient partners managing transitions

• Clinical insight that materially shapes how Constella delivers and scales psychiatric care in Kentucky

Your Superpowers:

• Board certification in psychiatry; MD or DO

• Active Kentucky medical license or willingness to obtain promptly; Constella will reimburse licensing fees

• 3+ years of post-training experience treating adults with SMI, preferably in a community or safety-net setting

• Experience with or strong interest in collaborative care models and NP supervision

• Comfort with psychopharmacology across a complex, high-acuity population including SUD, metabolic comorbidities, and polypharmacy

• Strong EHR and documentation habits

• A collaborative, non-hierarchical disposition