Psychiatric Consultant

We are looking for an experienced psychiatrist to provide about one hour a week of clinical consultation to the newer but fully licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner (PMHNP) we are now recruiting as we relaunch and grow our outpatient psychiatric program.

What the consultation looks like

• About one hour a week of case consultation with our PMHNP: curbside discussion of complex or higher-acuity cases, medication and formulary questions, differential and risk questions, and the occasional “how would you approach this.”
• We have not yet hired the prescriber you would consult to. We are looking for someone newly practicing but fully licensed, with Colorado prescriptive authority, who will see primarily Medicaid and commercial clients across the lifespan.
• Collegial, not supervisory. Colorado requires no physician co-signature or chart review for an autonomous PMHNP, and this role carries neither. You are a trusted second opinion and a sounding board, not a signer on the chart or the person legally responsible for the care.
• Light input on the program as it grows: occasional thoughts on formulary, workflow, and clinical protocols for a psychiatric service that is still being shaped.
• Flexible and remote. The hour can be a standing video call, a scheduled phone block, or whatever cadence works. We will fit it to your schedule.

Who we are looking for

• An experienced psychiatrist (MD or DO, board-certified in psychiatry) with a solid general outpatient foundation.
• Comfort with Medicaid and public-sector behavioral health, and with the realities of serving complex, under-resourced clients. Understanding of how community mental health and Medicaid systems of care actually work is a real plus.
• Comfortable with a new and evolving psychiatric program, where protocols are still being written and good judgment matters more than a fixed playbook.
• Experience consulting to or mentoring APRNs / PMHNPs, or working in collaborative-care or psychiatric-consultation models, is ideal.
• Active, unrestricted medical license in Colorado.

Structure and compensation

• Contract / consulting engagement (1099), roughly one hour per week.
• $225–300 per hour, within the band by experience.
• Remote and telehealth-friendly; the time is scheduled around your availability.
• A light, capped, defined commitment by design. This is meant to sit comfortably alongside a full clinical practice, not compete with it.
• Starts when our PMHNP does. We are glad to talk with interested psychiatrists now, ahead of that hire.

Why this one is worth an hour a week

Most consulting hours are fungible. This one is not. You would be helping a new prescriber care well for Medicaid and commercial clients who, in many cases, cannot get psychiatric care anywhere else in Colorado, and helping shape a program at the point where that influence actually lands. A small amount of your experience goes a long way here.