Psychiatrist - Part-Time - Heartland Behavioral Healthcare

Please note: Effective October 1, 2025, the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services has transitioned to its new name-the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health. This change reflects our continued commitment to providing comprehensive, person-centered care that addresses the full range of behavioral health needs for Ohioans. All positions and services now fall under the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health as we move forward in serving individuals, families, and communities across the state.

What you'll do at DBH:

• Conduct comprehensive evaluations, examinations, and analyses to diagnose and treat patients, and prescribe necessary medications.
• Lead Treatment Team meetings, providing clinical direction to team members in developing Individual Treatment Plans (ITPs) for assigned patients. Conducting mental and physical examinations as part of patient assessments.
• Administer and monitor psychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and other relevant treatments, offering both individual and group therapy. Regularly assess each patient's medical condition and seek consultations, referrals, or transfers as needed to maintain patient health.
• Coordinate with external psychiatrists and healthcare providers to ensure seamless, continuous care as patients transition to community-based settings.
• Maintain thorough documentation of all activities and treatments to ensure compliance with standards set by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (TJC), Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH), as well as hospital policies, regulations, and directives.
• Provide guidance to professional, paraprofessional, nursing, and direct care staff on matters related to the psychiatric care of patients.

This is an hourly position covered by the Ohio Health Care SEIU/1199 bargaining unit (union), with a pay range of P1 on the Ohio Health Care SEIU/1199 Pay Range Schedule. Normal working hours are 20 hours per week. This position is located within our Heartland Behavioral Healthcare at 3000 Erie Street South, Massillon, OH 44646.

Unless required by any applicable union contract and/or requirements of the Ohio Revised Code, the selected candidate will begin at Step 1 of the pay range schedule listed above, with an opportunity for pay increase after six months of satisfactory performance and then a yearly raise thereafter.

Additional Salary / Appointment Information:

Geographic supplement offered

Position Qualifications

Certificate to practice medicine per Section 4731.13 of Revised Code; satisfactory completion of residency training program in psychiatry, as approved by the residency review committee of the American Medical Association, the committee on post-graduate education of the American Osteopathic Association or the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology & Psychiatry or has been recognized as a psychiatrist by the Ohio State Medical Association or the Ohio Osteopathic Association on the basis of formal training & 5 or more yrs. of medical practice limited to psychiatry per Section 5122.01(E) of Revised Code.

Primary Job Skill: Psychiatry

Technical Skills: Mental Health, Behavioral Health

Professional Skills: Consultation, Collaboration, Interpreting Data, Problem Solving, Responsiveness, Developing Others, Emotional Intelligence Confidentiality

Required Educational Transcripts

Official transcripts are required for all post-secondary education, coursework, or degrees listed on the application. Applicants must submit an official transcript before receiving a formal employment offer. Failure to provide transcripts within five (5) business days of the request will result in disqualification from further consideration. Transcripts printed from the institution's website will not be accepted. DBH reserves the right to evaluate the academic validity of the degree-granting institution.