[Hiring] Clinical Psychologist @Backpack Healthcare

Role Description

Backpack Health is expanding its clinical services and is seeking an experienced Lead Clinical Psychologist to launch and lead our clinical psychology program. This is a unique opportunity for a psychologist who wants to do more than provide clinical care—you’ll have the opportunity to build a program from the ground up, beginning with comprehensive psychological evaluations and growing into a broader leadership and supervision role.

You’ll provide high-quality assessments for children, adolescents, and families, including evaluations for:

• ADHD
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Other developmental, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive concerns

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, or a closely related field from an appropriately accredited institution.
• Active and unrestricted psychologist license in at least one state where Backpack Health operates.
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain licensure in Georgia, Michigan, Virginia, and Illinois.
• Demonstrated experience conducting comprehensive psychological evaluations.
• Experience assessing ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other developmental, behavioral, emotional, or cognitive conditions.
• Strong knowledge of standardized psychological testing, diagnostic formulation, report writing, informed consent, test security, and professional ethics.
• Experience working with children, adolescents, and families strongly preferred.
• Previous supervision experience with Psychological Associates, trainees, or assessment professionals preferred.
• Experience with Medicaid, managed care, telehealth, multi-state practice, payer authorization, or psychological testing reimbursement is a plus.
• Strong organizational, communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently while partnering effectively with clinical and operational leadership.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and enthusiasm for building a new clinical program from the ground up.

Requirements

• Conduct comprehensive psychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and other populations served by Backpack Health.
• Evaluate ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other clinically appropriate referral questions.
• Select, administer, score, and interpret standardized psychological and diagnostic assessments.
• Conduct clinical interviews and review records and collateral information from caregivers, schools, providers, and other authorized parties.
• Prepare clear, timely, and clinically sound reports with diagnostic impressions and individualized recommendations.
• Provide thoughtful feedback to clients and caregivers and support understanding of evaluation results.
• Partner with Clinical, Operations, Billing, Credentialing, and executive leadership to launch and develop the clinical psychology service line.
• Establish referral criteria, assessment workflows, documentation standards, scheduling processes, and quality expectations.
• Develop processes that support efficient, high-quality, and accessible psychological assessment services.
• Monitor assessment volume, reimbursement, staffing needs, expenses, and workflow performance.
• Serve as Backpack Health’s subject matter expert in psychological assessment.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, access, efficiency, and financial sustainability.
• Help identify, recruit, onboard, and develop a qualified Psychological Associate.
• Provide clinical supervision consistent with applicable state laws, licensing requirements, ethical standards, and Backpack Health policies.
• Review delegated assessment activities, scoring, interpretation, documentation, and recommendations.
• Ensure services remain within each clinician’s training, competence, and permitted scope of practice.
• Maintain compliance with HIPAA, payer requirements, state regulations, professional ethics, documentation requirements, and test-security standards.
• Collaborate with therapists, psychiatric providers, care coordinators, schools, and other members of the care team.
• Participate in quality assurance, clinical audits, utilization review, and corrective-action activities.
• Identify and escalate clinical, operational, regulatory, reimbursement, or staffing risks.

Benefits

• Compensation will be structured as a 60/40 revenue split based on reimbursed claims for eligible psychological evaluations.
• 60% of revenue actually reimbursed for eligible evaluations goes to the Lead Clinical Psychologist.
• 40% retained by Backpack Health to support billing, scheduling, credentialing, administrative, and operational expenses.
• As the program expands and the role assumes supervision and broader leadership responsibilities, compensation will be evaluated based on supervision workload, assessment volume, reimbursement, operating costs, and overall program performance.
• Support with billing and claims, scheduling and administrative tasks, credentialing assistance, client coordination, and recruiting and onboarding support for a Psychological Associate.
• Approved payer credentialing expenses and state psychologist licensure fees in Georgia, Michigan, Virginia, and Illinois, subject to ongoing organizational need.

Company Description

Backpack Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that the strength of our care depends on the diversity and well-being of our team. We celebrate differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and other traits that make each person unique. We welcome and encourage diverse candidates to apply for any position for which they are qualified and to bring their unique perspectives, experiences, and talents to our team.