Psychiatrist

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Arlington County requires all applicants to thoroughly complete each section of the application, including prior job responsibilities, duties, and supplemental questions. While you may attach a resume, it will not replace a completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Arlington County Department of Human Services (DHS) is hiring a FT and PT (26 hrs/wk) Psychiatrists in the Behavioral Health Division (BHD). DHS provides a broad continuum of social services, behavioral healthcare, public health, and employment programs to approximately 60,000 customers per year in an integrated, collaborative approach. DHS has a recovery and best practice-oriented mission and the psychiatrist will have the opportunity to be a part of projects which are at the forefront of mental health service delivery, including health care integration and innovative access models.

BHD provides a range of services that promote recovery, independence, and community integration for adults with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders. These services include emergency mental health, discharge planning, medical services, case management, and linkage to other services which are provided directly by County staff or through contract, at the Sequoia Plaza offices, at community-based locations, in the County jail, in homeless shelters, and on the streets. The full-time Psychiatrist is an assistant medical director position and the PT position will work  with senior adults in the Aging and Disability Division as well as general outpatient and substance abuse in BHD.   Experience treating  opioid and other substance use disorders in addition to SMI is important.

 
Arlington County DHS is committed to delivering client services in an effective, equitable, respectful, and trauma-informed manner. Our staff is dedicated to ensuring our clients are approached, engaged, and cared for in ways that demonstrate competency, sensitivity, and awareness of factors that impact the client experience, including but not limited to: cultural identity, gender, racial, and ethnic diversity, religious/spiritual ascription, physical capability, cognitive and literacy levels, sexual orientation, and linguistic needs.

 

To learn more about Arlington County's Psychiatric Services, please visit DHS.

Specific duties include:

• Performing diagnostic psychiatric evaluations;
• Ongoing psychiatric management, including psycho-pharmacologic treatment, psycho-therapeutic support, and crisis intervention;
• Assuring comprehensive healthcare needs are identified and treated;
• Providing team consultation and clinical oversight of nurse practitioners as well as participation in interdisciplinary treatment planning meetings;
• Educating clients about their illness and providing health management information 
• Documenting clinical care in the electronic clinical record; and
• Providing backup physician coverage as needed to the Division outpatient services.

Minimum: 

• M.D. from an accredited college or university
• Four years’ experience in psychiatry
• Must be licensed (or licensable) to practice medicine in the State of Virginia and be eligible to take examination of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. 

Desirables: Preference may be given to candidates with experience in one or more of the following:

• Board Certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology;
• Administrative experience managing psychiatric services and providing supervision or a desire to learn and obtain such experience. 
• Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry or Experience treating senior adults with SMI. 
• Completion of fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry or experience working with Opioid and other SU disorders.
• Experience/interest in crisis stabilization 
• Providing services in an outpatient community setting working intensively with patients with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders; 
• Working on an interdisciplinary team serving a diverse and chronically ill population.

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

 Special Requirements

Please note: A cover letter is considered part of this application.

Must be licensed or license eligible to practice medicine in the State of Virginia and be eligible to take examination of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Must pass a criminal background check and State of Virginia Central Registry check.

Employment restrictions: To ensure that dual relationships are avoided and that employees who are also clients do not relate to their service provider as co-professionals, employees will not be hired by the County to provide or support services to the team or program in which they are current clients:

• You cannot concurrently receive behavioral health services from Arlington County Community Service Board (CSB) programs while employed in an Arlington County CSB program (exception Crisis Intervention services).
• At least 24 months must have passed between receipt of CSB services from Arlington County and employment in an Arlington County CSB program.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30-5:00 P.M.

The salary listed above is effective July 1, 2025.

Salary includes Malpractice Insurance. The hourly rate for part-time positions is: $110.07-$170.61

Your responses to the supplemental questionnaire are considered part of the selection process. Please do not enter "see resume" as a response to the questions. Each section of the application must be completed. A resume may be attached, however, it will not substitute for the completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.