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Senior Medical Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Services (Remote)

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Senior Medical Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Services

Location: Remote (National Telehealth Role)
Reports to: Chief Medical Officer

About the Organization - Author Health

At Author Health, we’re revolutionizing how mental health care is delivered, and we want you to be part of it! Our mission is to bring compassionate, high-quality care to people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and dementia, including older adults.

We don’t just treat symptoms. We treat people — fully, holistically, and with heart! Through our virtual-first, innovative care model, we deliver community-based wrap-around outpatient mental health care inclusive of psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and care management services. We partner with primary care providers, hospitals, families, and caregivers to keep patients out of the hospital and empower them to live healthier, more connected lives.

At Author, inclusivity isn’t a checkbox. It’s how we build trust and drive better outcomes! We honor the unique cultures, identities, and stories that shape every patient’s experience, and we’re creating a workplace where team members can show up as their full selves, too.

If you’re driven by purpose, ready to shake up the status quo, and eager to make a real impact in people’s lives, we’d love to meet you. Let’s build the future of mental health care together!

The Opportunity

As Senior Medical Director of Geriatric Psychiatry Services, you will shape and scale our national model of care for older adults with SMI, SUD and dementia. You’ll lead multi-state psychiatric teams, drive clinical quality and innovation, and help build a system that truly delivers on the Quadruple Aim — better outcomes, lower costs, and higher satisfaction for both patients and clinicians.

This is a rare leadership opportunity for a visionary psychiatrist who combines clinical excellence, strategic thinking, and a passion for innovation in geriatric mental health.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead and oversee all psychiatric teams providing telehealth care to older adults with SMI, SUD and dementia. 
  • Design, refine, and scale a nationally consistent model of value-based geriatric psychiatry.
  • Drive quality improvement, compliance, and performance metrics. Monitor and track key quality and outcome indicators, and make necessary adjustments to the organization's plan for managing attributed population.
  • Work cross-functionally – and specifically with the product and technology teams – to translate clinical and supervision workflows into the technology platform for the company.  The technology platform should prompt the clinical and care management teams for appropriate actions to improve total health outcomes and costs for a population with SMI and SUD.
  • Lead clinical recruitment, onboarding, training and education programs. Develop and implement the online learning platform.
  • Develop, implement and oversee processes for clinical supervision.  Drive and cultivate excellence in patient care and meaning, belonging and group support across the clinical and care management teams.
  • Oversee implementation and ongoing growth of the CMS Guide model and other similar payment approaches.
  • Support primary care providers through training and consultation, and participate in high-risk case conferences and multidisciplinary rounds.
  • Collaborate closely with the Compliance Office on development and implementation of clinical policies and risk management.
  • Contribute to strategic planning, financial stewardship, and sustainable program growth including new service offerings, patient outreach, and marketing initiatives. Attend in-person and virtual meetings for business development as applicable/indicated.
  • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including clinicians, patients, payers, and government agencies.
  • For full time work, 40% of the full time would be spent in direct patient care and clinical supervision.

What You’ll Bring

  • MD or DO, Board Certified in Psychiatry (Geriatric Psychiatry strongly preferred).
  • 8+ years of experience caring for older adults with complex psychiatric and neurocognitive disorders.
  • Experience leading clinicians or programs within a behavioral health, telehealth, or value-based organization.
  • Strong clinical judgment, operational insight, and data-informed decision-making.
  • Passion for advancing integrated, tech-enabled mental healthcare for older adults.

Why Join Us

  • National leadership role with meaningful clinical impact.
  • Collaborative, mission-driven, and rapidly growing team.
  • Competitive base salary with bonuses
  • Comprehensive benefits package for employee and dependents (medical/dental/vision/STD/life insurance)
  • Retirement savings plan (401k) with up to 3.5% company match
  • Generous paid vacation and sick leave
  • 11 paid holidays throughout the year (9 standard + 2 flex holidays)
  • Generous CME funds and CME PTO
  • Flexible remote work

Author Health is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is the company’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. The company’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. 

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible experience for all applicants. If you require any accommodations at any stage of the process, please let us know. 

The company is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. In accordance with applicable legal requirements such as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Author Health will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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$305,000 - $320,000 USD

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