Head of Psychiatric Practice

1 day, 11 hours ago
Full-time
Executive
Operations
Lifestance

Lifestance

LifeStance Health provides evidence-based behavioral health care services for all ages, aiming to improve access to personalized mental healthcare and create a healthier society.

Health Care Providers & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2017

Description

  • Establish psychiatric practice standards, treatment frameworks, and clinical expectations across markets and service lines.
  • Develop and implement evidence-based psychiatric guidelines, protocols, tools, and practice resources.
  • Partner with medical leadership, operations, quality, learning, and measurement-based care teams to improve care quality, safety, consistency, and outcomes.
  • Identify and address practice variation through data analysis, education, and performance improvement initiatives.
  • Build and oversee clinician education and professional development curricula.
  • Design and manage provider excellence programs, including onboarding, competency frameworks, mentoring, and continuing development.
  • Support enterprise-wide EHR standardization, clinical workflows, and related policies.
  • Monitor psychiatric quality metrics, patient safety trends, outcomes, and clinical effectiveness measures.
  • Advise senior stakeholders on psychiatric practice trends, clinical risk, provider enablement, and standards of care.
  • Lead physician wellbeing, burnout prevention, and joy-in-medicine initiatives; report program and workforce outcomes to executive leadership.

Requirements

  • MD or DO with board certification in Psychiatry.
  • Active, unrestricted medical license and ability to maintain required licensure.
  • 10+ years of psychiatric clinical experience, including progressive healthcare or behavioral health leadership.
  • Experience developing clinical standards, treatment frameworks, quality improvement initiatives, or provider excellence programs.
  • Strong knowledge of psychiatric standards of care, patient safety, clinical governance, regulatory expectations, and evidence-based practice.
  • Familiarity with value-based care frameworks.
  • Ability to influence senior clinical and operational stakeholders in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States.
  • Experience working inclusively with diverse populations.
  • Multi-state behavioral health or outpatient mental health leadership experience preferred.
  • Experience with physician practice transformation, clinical quality, provider development, outcomes data, measurement-based care, or population-level metrics preferred.
  • Published research or quality improvement scholarship preferred.
  • Experience representing psychiatric leadership in governance, executive, or professional forums preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation of $252,000–$315,000.
  • Competitive bonus plan and potential equity.
  • National organization offering in-person and telemedicine behavioral healthcare.
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
  • Equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace.

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