[Hiring] Supervising Physician, Psychiatry - Eating Disorders @Equip Health

Role Description

Equip is seeking a board-certified or board-eligible MD/DO in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to join its rapidly growing clinical care team caring for patients ages 6-99 years with eating disorders in a 100% virtual Telehealth platform.

Physicians are essential members of Equip's multidisciplinary virtual treatment team, working alongside therapists, dietitians, peer coaches, and family coaches to help children, adolescents, and adults recover from eating disorders. This is a remote, full time, salaried position with flexible hours and priority for afternoon and early evening hours in your time zone.

A central and unique aspect of this role is executing collaborative practice agreements with APPs across both psychiatric and general medical backgrounds. While Equip has dedicated general medical physicians and APPs to support physical health, the supervising psychiatrist must possess a solid foundation of medical knowledge and feel highly confident in medical stability monitoring within a virtual high-acuity eating disorder ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive psychiatric assessments, ongoing medication management, and evidence-based treatment plans for children, adolescents, and adults with eating disorders and complex co-occurring conditions, while supporting families throughout the recovery process.
• Perform routine chart audits and subsequent clinical and performance coaching in accordance with compliance metrics.
• Maintain availability for clinical consults and curbside case escalations from team members.
• Execute collaborative practice agreements for Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), covering both psychiatric and general medical specialties working within a behavioral health program.
• Monitor vital signs, laboratory trends, and objective parameters to ensure medical and psychiatric stability.
• Collaborate on a multidisciplinary treatment team with medical providers, therapists, dietitians, peer coaches, and family coaches to provide medical guidelines and treatment.
• Communicate via electronic medical record messaging to support patients and supports, and to communicate with the treatment team.
• Document effectively and in a timely manner within Equip electronic medical record in accordance with Equip’s policies and procedures.
• Participate in Treatment Team meetings, supervision, continuing education and department meetings.

Qualifications

• Education: MD or DO degree from an accredited institution.
• Board Certification: Board-certified or board-eligible in Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Licensure: Active, unrestricted medical license in one or more states, with a strong willingness to obtain multi-state licensure.
• 3+ years of clinical practice with demonstrated success in supervising, mentoring, and providing clinical oversight to advanced practice providers (NPs/PAs).
• Proven experience or strong baseline competence in eating disorder medical management.
• Exceptional communication skills with a track history of collaboration with diverse teams and external providers.
• Ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced startup and changing clinical and organizational priorities.
• Deep clinical maturity to navigate complex cases while maintaining therapeutic relationships and providing compassionate, patient-centered care.

Requirements

• Working Hours are in EST.
• Direct Patient Care: Up to 50% of your time is in direct patient care.
• Administrative Time: Approximately 50% of your time is administrative.
• Weekly Supervision of APPs.
• Weekly Treatment Team Meetings.

Benefits

• Compensation: Earning Potential Range: $240,000 to $300,000 Annually + 15% Performance Bonus Potential.
• Flex PTO policy (3-5 wks/year recommended) + 11 paid company holidays.
• Generous Parental Leave Benefits.
• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance.
• Spring Health, a 100% employer-paid mental health benefit.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), a company paid resource for mental health, legal services, financial support, and more!
• HealthJoy, a 100% employer-paid platform connecting you to a healthcare concierge.
• 401K Option!
• Student Loan Repayment: $500/quarter for employees under a year of tenure; $1,000/quarter for employees over a year of tenure.
• Robust training in evidence-based treatments for eating disorders.
• Up to $1,000/year stipend for continuing education.
• Equip reimburses fees associated with initial licensure and license renewals.
• $50/month stipend for home internet expenses.
• Initial work-from-home stipend of up to $500.
• Company Laptop.