Senior Psychiatrist

The Senior Psychiatric Physician Specialist will provide services primarily in low barrier/outreach settings including streets and parks, congregate and non-congregate shelters, sobering centers, and permanent supportive housing sites. Services may also be provided in office, urgent, and drop-in clinic settings.

LOCATION: 555 Stevenson St. and various streets parks and shelters, San Francisco 

SCHEDULE/SHIFT: Generally, Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, hours may vary, and evening and weekend shifts may be required 

Desirable Experience and Qualifications:

• Desire to work with high risk/high vulnerability people experiencing homelessness in an inner city setting, who have multiple chronic problems, which may include medical, mental health, substance use and cognitive impairment
• >Two (2) yrs experience providing direct psychiatric care to vulnerable underserved populations with Serious Mental Illness (including but not limited to Psychotic Disorder, Bipolar, PTSD; may include Residency training in safety-net settings) 
• Experience with crisis management, assessment for involuntary psychiatric holds and need for conservatorship

• Experience, knowledge and skills in Addiction Medicine particularly prescribing buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorder 
• Experience working in and/or developing a trauma-informed care model
• Bilingual, bicultural in Spanish 

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Current valid CA License medical by the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California*.
2. Successful completion** of a residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association in a Psychiatric medical specialty area (i.e., Board Eligible).
3. Current valid Drug Enforcement Agency registration with the United States Department of Justice.

Whole Person Integrated Care (WPIC) is a section of the SF Department of Public Health’s Ambulatory Care division that brings together existing non-traditional primary care, urgent care, and behavioral health clinical services primarily serving people experiencing homelessness.

WPIC takes a data-driven, collaborative approach to caring for our highest risk patients and facilitating citywide care coordination.