Title: Psychiatrist: 1099 Independent Contractors

Location: Naples, Florida

Company: David Lawrence Centers for Behavioral Health

Opportunity: DLC offers a holistic, comprehensive continuum of evidence-based behavioral health services across the lifespan and multiple levels of care. Immediate openings are available for flexible weekday and weekend inpatient and outpatient 1099 psychiatric coverage.

Outpatient Innovation - Join the new Diermeier Access and Integrated Healthcare Center, offering co-occurring enhanced services, medication-assisted treatment, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and onsite integrated health services.

New Psychiatric Hospital -  Help shape care at our new 75-bed Centralized Receiving Psychiatric Hospital and Integrated Crisis and Addiction Receiving Facility, opening January 2027.

Job Type: Independent Contractor (1099), as needed. Assignments are based on organizational needs and contractor availability and require mutual written acceptance. Services may include in-person or telehealth visits, subject to mutual agreement, credentialing, and applicable requirements. No minimum hours, shifts, patients, or assignments are guaranteed.

Compensation: 
- Outpatient Psychiatric Evaluation: $200 per completed evaluation; approximately 60 minutes.
- Outpatient Follow-Up Visits: $200 per three completed visits; approximately 20 minutes each.
- Partial-Day Inpatient Coverage: Prorated or mutually agreed flat rate when approved and accepted in writing.
- Evening On-Call: $200 per accepted assignment.
- Protocol Physician Stipend: $500 monthly per designated PMHNP.
- Weekend Inpatient Coverage: $3,077 per accepted block, including completed Saturday and Sunday rounding, applicable on-call coverage, orders, care coordination, and documentation.

Key Responsibilities: 

- Complete psychiatric evaluations, follow-ups, treatment recommendations, medication management, orders, discharge summaries, and required documentation.

- Provide mutually accepted adult and, when agreed and appropriately credentialed, child coverage across crisis, inpatient, outpatient, and substance use settings.

- Collaborate through a multi-disciplinary team approach on care coordination, treatment planning, clinical reviews, risk management, and clinically necessary Baker Act or Marchman Act proceedings.

- Exercise independent clinical judgment while meeting applicable legal, professional, medical staff, patient-safety, and privacy requirements.

Qualifications:

Required
- Active, unrestricted Florida medical license; DEA registration; accredited MD or DO degree; and board certification or eligibility in psychiatry.

- Knowledge of applicable behavioral health laws and standards, professional boundaries, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Preferred
- Inpatient or crisis psychiatry experience, including Baker Act services, emergency assessment, and treatment of serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders.

- Experience with adults, adolescents, and children.

- Proficiency with electronic medical records, Microsoft 365, Teams, and video conferencing.

- Recent psychiatry graduates are encouraged to apply, subject to all applicable licensure, credentialing, privileging, and pre-service requirements.

Before Services Begin: Executed agreement and Tax Forms; required credentialing, privileges, screenings, payer enrollment or reassignment, onboarding, and written confirmation of the initial assignment.

Make an immediate impact while helping shape the future of psychiatric care in Southwest Florida.