Medical Director, Inpatient Mental Health Program-Kansas City

Medical Director, Inpatient Mental Health Program – Kansas City

Are you looking for an exceptional opportunity and a desire to be a part of the biggest change in behavioral health for youth in the Kansas City area?

Children’s Mercy Kansas City, in partnership with KVC, is seeking a Medical Director to lead a new inpatient mental health wellness campus that is currently under construction in Olathe, Kansas.  

The Medical Director will participate in the implementation and ongoing management of psychiatric and medical operations including the development of health management strategies, quality of psychiatric and medical care, and new clinical initiatives; provide professional pediatric and adult psychiatry services to the Psychiatric Hospital’s patients, including the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders; provide psychiatry standard medical education and supervision services to psychiatric fellows at the Psychiatric Hospital; Provide oversight, evaluation, and review of quality of work of psychiatric practitioners for appropriate diagnosis, treatment, and documentation.

The preferred candidate will be triple board certified in General Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and four to six years of post-residency clinical experience with at least three years of experience in medical leadership roles in an inpatient environment.  Key considerations for this position:

• Stand alone, newly constructed, state of the art, inpatient psychiatric hospital - 72-beds (48 dedicated to children).
• Diverse patient population – Sixty-six percent of Children’s Mercy youth mental health patients are people of color; Seventy-four percent of mental health patients are from lower median household incomes (according to US Census data from 2022.
• Team based care focused on families – In collaboration with interdisciplinary behavioral health care clinical team at the Psychiatric Hospital including physicians, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, or other professionals regarding the treatment planning process.
• Competitive compensation and fringe benefits
• Collaborative and winning culture
• Academic appointment commensurate with experience

Olathe, Kansas is a suburb of Kansas City and located in Johnson County (which is one of the best places to live in Kansas).  Olathe has been rated as one of the 25 fastest growing communities in the nation.  Money Magazine lists it as one of the top 100 small cities in which to live. Olathe offers highly ranked school districts, great restaurants, entertainment and is rich with history and culture. 

Kansas City a thriving cultural and economic city with more than 2.1 million residents in the metro area. Kansas City offers some of the best public-school districts in the nation and a low cost of living.  KC has small-town friendliness, with big-city dining, a variety of entertainment options, incredible jazz, professional sports, world renowned museums, great shopping and more fountains than any city in the world, other than Rome.  Our city’s long list of attractions includes world-class museums and entertainment from the World War 1 Museum, American Jazz Museum, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kemper Museum, Missouri Repertory Theatre, and Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.  Kansas City is large enough to provide the amenities of a metropolitan area, while small enough to allow for easy commutes, assessable amenities, and a very high quality of life.

For more information, please contact us at 866-264-4652 (866-CMH-inKC), or please submit CV and cover letter to:  physicianjobs@cmh.edu

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