[Hiring] Lead 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

As the program grows, you’ll help establish clinical standards, supervise psychology staff, and shape a sustainable and scalable psychology service line.

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.
• Lead Clinical Psychologist: 60% of revenue actually reimbursed for eligible evaluations.
• Backpack Health: 40% retained 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, 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.