This role provides clinical leadership in outpatient psychiatric services while maintaining an active general adult psychiatry caseload.
The position blends direct patient care, outpatient program leadership, and multidisciplinary collaboration in a community mental health setting. The focus is high-quality, evidence-based, recovery-oriented care for diverse and underserved populations.
This role is grounded in a patient-first mission, emphasizing access, dignity, engagement, and high-quality psychiatric care.
Clinical Leadership & Direct Care
Provide clinical leadership for outpatient general psychiatry services.
Maintain an active outpatient caseload (general adult psychiatry focus).
Provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, and medication management.
Manage a broad range of conditions including mood, anxiety, psychotic, trauma-related, ADHD, and co-occurring substance use disorders.
Support case consultation and clinical decision-making for outpatient teams.
Promote evidence-based, measurement-based, and recovery-oriented care.
Ensure high-quality, safe, and continuous patient care.
Outpatient Operations & Program Support
Oversee daily outpatient clinic operations and care coordination workflows.
Collaborate with therapists, nurses, case managers, peer specialists, and primary care.
Improve access to timely outpatient psychiatric care for underserved populations.
Support telepsychiatry and integrated behavioral health expansion.
Use quality and outcomes data to improve access, engagement, and retention.
Innovation & System Transformation
Support innovative, evidence-based outpatient care models.
Promote a "yes more than no" approach to improve access and reduce barriers.
Participate in piloting new care models and workflow improvements.
Measure outcomes using quality, access, and engagement metrics.
Help transform systems to improve equity, access, and patient engagement in mental health care.
Collaborate on redesigning care delivery for better population outcomes.
Compliance & Quality
Ensure compliance with all regulatory, licensing, and accreditation standards.
Participate in quality improvement, peer review, and risk management activities.
Support best practices in documentation and clinical standards.
Education & Mentorship
Mentor psychiatrists, NPs, residents, and clinical staff.
Support a collaborative, recovery-oriented outpatient environment.
Participate in teaching, supervision, and community education as needed.
Leadership Growth Opportunity
Grow into expanded leadership roles as services expand.
Serve as a role model for recovery-oriented care and evidence-based medicine across the multidisciplinary team.
Support culture-building focused on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Participate in planning for future behavioral health expansion, including a planned Mental Health Crisis Center (2029).
Contribute to service line development and long-term system design.
Note:
The Health Care District of Palm Beach County is an independent special taxing district that has served as a healthcare safety net for more than 36 years to fill in gaps in access to healthcare services. This unique healthcare system covers the entire county and provides a wide range of services such as nine community health centers (Federally Qualified Health Centers) which serve everyone regardless of ability to pay; school health teams in 172 public schools; a lifesaving Trauma Hawk aeromedical helicopter program; a rural, public teaching hospital, Lakeside Medical Center; an award-winning skilled nursing center; a ground ambulance program for Health Care District patients needing a higher level of care and the county's Trauma Agency, which ensures quality outcomes within the county's trauma system and leads initiatives to prevent traumatic injury.
We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, military or veteran status, age, sex, pregnancy status, genetic information, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation or identification status, or any other legally recognized category protected by jurisdictional, state or federal law. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.
We are also committed to maintaining a safe, healthy, and productive work environment for all employees. As such, we are a Drug-Free Workplace.
This role may require Agency of Health Care Administration (AHCA) background screening and clearance. As required under House Bill 531, applicants may review AHCA's education and awareness information at the following link: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/
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The Health Care District of Palm Beach County is an integrated public health system established by the voters as a special taxing district. The safety-net system is an equal opportunity employer of approximately 1,400 employees. The Health Care District provides challenging and fulfilling employment opportunities through its health coverage programs for uninsured residents, a pharmacy operation, a nationally-recognized Trauma System that includes the Trauma Hawk Aeromedical Program, adult and pediatric services at the C. L. Brumback Primary Care Clinics throughout the county, a School Health program which staffs registered nurses in nearly 170 public schools, short-term or long-term inpatient care at the Edward J. Healey Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, and the county’s only public hospital, Lakeside Medical Center, which serves the rural, western Glades’ communities. For more information, visit www.hcdpbc.org.