Psychiatrist

Athra

Athra collaborates with our partners to make the impossible, possible by creating in-depth behavioral health strategies, optimizing operations, implementing digital transformations, and empowering organizations and their teams to own the future. Through diverse perspectives, the encouragement of new ideas, and consistently challenging the status quo, Athra is able to help organizations create sustainable results from C-Suites to the Streets.

Athra is a dynamic behavioral health operations company with access to expert resources to assist with the operational, planning, and transactional support needs of psychiatric and acute care hospitals, assisted living and memory care facilities, prison systems, providers, and other healthcare organizations. Athra is a trusted partner and advisor to a range of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations nationally.

Posted September 25, 2026

Athra is seeking a Board-Certified or Board-Eligible Psychiatrist for a fully remote position providing virtual psychiatric admission coverage for inpatient behavioral health hospitals. This role focuses on completing psychiatric admission evaluations and supporting safe, clinically appropriate transitions into inpatient care. The psychiatrist will work directly with hospital clinical teams and utilize each facility's EMR for evaluations and documentation.

• 100% virtual psychiatric position
• Focuses on psychiatric admissions rather than carrying a traditional daily inpatient rounding caseload
• Centralized scheduling, credentialing support, operational oversight, and coordination with participating hospital teams provided by Athra

Responsibilities

• Provide virtual psychiatric admission coverage during assigned day-shift hours

• Complete timely psychiatric admission evaluations for patients entering inpatient behavioral health treatment

• Assess psychiatric diagnoses, current symptoms, risk factors, medical and psychiatric history, and appropriateness for inpatient treatment

• Review and reconcile psychiatric medications upon admission

• Continue clinically appropriate psychiatric medications when indicated and make initial medication recommendations or adjustments within clinical judgment

• Enter admission evaluations, orders, and required documentation directly into the hospital's EMR

• Collaborate with nursing, intake, admissions, and other members of the hospital clinical team

• Respond promptly to admission requests throughout the assigned shift

• Shift & Schedule

• 7 on, 7 off schedule

• No routine onsite requirement

Requirements

• MD or DO with completion of an accredited psychiatry residency
• Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry
• Active, unrestricted medical license in Texas
• Active DEA registration and ability to prescribe psychiatric medications as clinically appropriate
• Experience in inpatient psychiatry, psychiatric emergency services, or behavioral health admissions strongly preferred
• Comfortable evaluating high-acuity psychiatric patients through telepsychiatry
• Strong EMR documentation skills and ability to work within multiple hospital systems
• Reliable high-speed internet and appropriate private workspace for HIPAA-compliant telehealth services