About Us
InStride Health’s mission is to deliver specialty anxiety and OCD care that works for every kid, teen, young adult, and family who needs it. Through this mission, we are expanding access to insurance-based care, increasing engagement in treatment, and improving treatment outcomes. We are doing this by combining research-backed clinical care and innovative technology to eliminate the major problems with care today: difficulty finding providers, months of waiting to be seen, arduous onboarding processes, and inconsistent use of evidence-based therapies and outcomes tracking. Our vision is to become the nation’s most trusted provider of pediatric anxiety and OCD care.
Team InStride Health: Our Core Values
- Give Heart: We lead with heart, treating patients and their families the way we want our loved ones to be treated.
- Work Smart: We find smarter ways to solve hard problems and fix the broken mental health system by leveraging technology, diversity of thought, and innovation.
- Have Humility: We leave our egos at the door, empowering our team to collaborate, celebrate diversity, and adopt a growth mindset.
- Embrace Community: We all belong. We are in this together, and we never worry alone. We believe in each other and recognize that every voice matters.
About the Role
The Psychiatrist at InStride is responsible for providing high quality psychiatric treatment to our patients. The Psychiatrist is part of a multidisciplinary InStride team and also collaborates closely with families, primary care physicians, and outpatient prescribers to meet patients’ needs. The Psychiatrist creates and maintains a professional, friendly atmosphere for patients, families, InStride staff, and referring physicians, and demonstrates a commitment to InStride Health’s Mission and Core Values.
Responsibilities:
- Provide psychiatric evaluation, medication treatment plan, and ongoing medication management services to children and teens.
- Collaborate with InStride care team and outpatient pediatrician (and psychiatrist if applicable)
- Participate in clinical team meetings centered around patient care, collaboration, and education
- Schedule patients as indicated and complete documentation in a timely and thorough manner
- Provide feedback on workflow improvements and offer ideas for program growth and innovation
What You Need to Succeed in the Role
When hiring we do our best to ensure that there is a mutually strong fit, as it is a high priority to us that our team members who are caring for our patients and families feel great about the work they are doing! Here are some things that are important to us:
- Connecticut MD licensure appropriate to clinical discipline and openness to acquiring medical licenses beyond CT as we expand care to additional states
- Commitment to compassionate, thoughtful treatment for those who seek your care
- Expertise in medication management of children and teens struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression, and ADHD
- Ability to complete documentation in a timely and thorough manner
- Comfort with working on a care team – willing to provide support and comfort with seeking support when needed
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and professionally in a fast-paced environment; ability to be flexible
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information in a manner that inspires confidence and trust
- Basic computer skills, facility with and openness to new technologies
- Cultural competence with regard to diversity and inclusion
Why Join Our Team
- Ground floor entry into a company that is changing the landscape of pediatric mental health treatment
- Ability to help thousands of children and families get the care they need
- Competitive compensation and generous benefits package for doing what you love
- Ongoing training via conferences and online learning (professional growth is a must at InStride Health!)
- Ability to work from the comfort of your home with periodic in-person off-sites (COVID-friendly of course)
- Opportunity for growth within the company as InStride Health scales nationally
- Work hours are more flexible than typical corporate life and will evolve as the company grows to support our customers (i.e. patients and families)
Why Join Our Team
- Generous benefits package (401k with match, Flexible PTO, paid holidays, 4 week paid sabbatical, 12 week paid parental leave, health benefits starting on your first day, and more)
- Opportunity to join a mission-driven company that is changing the landscape of pediatric mental health treatment
- Chance to make a far-reaching impact by helping children and families access desperately-needed, evidence-based care
- Opportunity to work with talented and experienced team members who have devoted their lives to solving this problem
- Fully virtual: work from the comfort of your home with periodic in-person retreats
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)
We want to make our clinical services available for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or how you identify. To achieve this, we recognize we must continually make progress in building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive team. Through these efforts, we support two primary objectives at InStride Health:
- Providing high quality patient care to families. We are in a privileged position to support families during a vulnerable time in their lives. We approach all families and each other with compassion and are most effective as a diverse team where all individuals feel valued, respected, and accepted.
- Building a mission-driven business that lasts. Specifically, we believe our commitment to a supportive culture improves innovation, decision-making, and efficiency.
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