
Psychiatry Subject Matter Expert at InStride Health. . Location: Remote, US. About Us. . InStride Health’s mission is to deliver specialty anxiety and OCD care that works for every kid, teen, young adult, and family who needs it. Through this mission, we are expanding access to insurance-based care, increasing engagement in treatment, and improving treatment outcomes. We are doing this by combining research-backed clinical care and innovative technology to eliminate the major problems with care today: difficulty finding providers, months of waiting to be seen, arduous onboarding processes, and inconsistent use of evidence-based therapies and outcomes tracking. Our vision is to become the nation’s most trusted provider of pediatric anxiety and OCD care.. . Team. . InStride Health: Our Core Values. . . Give Heart. : We lead with heart, treating patients and their families the way we want our loved ones to be treated. . . Work Smart. : We find smarter ways to solve hard problems and fix the broken mental health system by leveraging technology, diversity of thought, and innovation.. . Have Humility. : We leave our egos at the door, empowering our team to collaborate, celebrate diversity, and adopt a growth mindset.. . Embrace Community: . We all belong. We are in this together, and we never worry alone. We believe in each other and recognize that every voice matters.. . Overview of Position. . The . Psychiatry Subject Matter Expert (SME). is a part-time (0.25 FTE) role focused on strengthening InStride’s psychiatric expertise across care delivery, training, content development, and external engagement. Reporting to the Chief Clinical Officer, the SME helps develop clinical content and protocols, onboarding and training materials, and tech-enabled tools to support high-quality, evidence-based care. The role also contributes to public-facing psychiatry education and content, supports patient acquisition and payor efforts, and identifies, sources, and schedules expert speakers for internal continuing education events.. . Key Responsibilities . . Clinical Expertise & Content Development. . . Serve as InStride’s SME on child, adolescent, and young adult psychopharmacology and evidence-based treatment integration, staying abreast of emerging trends in pediatric psychiatry.. . Work with the Medical Director to identify areas of need within psychiatry, and review, develop, and refine associated protocols and decision-support resources for the Psychiatry team.. . Gather feedback to identify areas of need for product development, updated support, and innovation within the psychiatry team.. . Provide subject matter input for tools, workflows, and content designed for use across the care team, ensuring alignment with best practices and clinical accuracy.. . Apply a culturally responsive lens to psychiatric content and guidance, ensuring relevance across diverse patient populations. . Partner with cross-functional teams, including Clinical Operations and Product Tech, to ensure content is accessible and consistent across disciplines.. . Support the development, validation, and refinement of tech- and AI-driven tools and decision-support systems to enhance psychiatric care delivery.. . Provide input to support the development and ongoing refinement of quality assurance processes for psychiatric care delivery.. . Gather and incorporate feedback from the Discovery Team to inform clinical product and content development, ensuring tools and resources meet the needs of patients, families, and the care team.. . Evaluate the impact of psychiatry content and tools, using feedback and performance metrics.. . . Training & Speaker Coordination. . . Develop and contribute to psychiatry-specific onboarding materials for new psychiatry team members, ensuring consistent application of InStride’s evidence-based approach.. . Identify high-impact topics for continuing education and professional development for the Psychiatry team.. . Source, vet, and schedule external expert speakers and gather feedback to continuously improve future speaker selection.. . . Thought Leadership & External Engagement. . . Support InStride’s patient acquisition and community outreach efforts by contributing psychiatric expertise to public-facing content, including webinars, blog posts, and psychiatric insights for social media.. . Co-present in periodic public-facing webinars, ensuring clinical quality and psychiatric rigor.. . Join patient acquisition and payor meetings, as needed, to represent InStride psychiatry.. . Collaborate with the Marketing team to ensure that all external-facing psychiatry content is accurate, relevant, and aligned with InStride’s mission and brand.. . . Qualifications. . Required Education:. . . Satisfactory completion of an MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.. . Completion of an internship and residency program in adult psychiatry, followed by a child psychiatry fellowship training program, accredited by the ACGME.. . . Required Licensure & Board Certification:. . . Board certification in Adult Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by the APBN.. . Fulfillment of continuing education obligations commensurate with state law in state(s) of practice.. . . Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: . . . Clinical expertise and experience in psychopharmacology for anxiety, OCD, and related disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults.. . Ability to express, receive, and exchange ideas by means of the written and spoken word. . . Strong decision-making skills and the ability to identify workable solutions in time-sensitive situations.. . Excellent organizational and time management skills.. . Ability to be flexible and work well both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a fast-paced, mission driven environment.. . Ability to quickly learn and adapt to technology updates within the workplace, including an openness to incorporating AI, where appropriate.. . Comfort engaging in external-facing webinars.. . Commitment to evidence-based care and to delivering culturally responsive, inclusive psychiatric guidance.. . Ability to accept and provide constructive feedback and initiate appropriate responsive action.. . . The starting annual salary for this role is $250,000, prorated to $62,500 for 0.25 FTE (10 hours per week). We maintain consistent starting salaries and salary bands to ensure our team members have a clear path for growth within their roles, allowing their compensation to increase as they gain experience at InStride.. Why Join Our Team. . . Generous benefits package (401k with match, Flexible PTO, paid holidays, 4 week paid sabbatical, 12 week paid parental leave, health benefits starting on your first day, and more). . Opportunity to join a mission-driven company that is changing the landscape of pediatric mental health treatment. . Chance to make a far-reaching impact by helping children and families access desperately-needed, evidence-based care. . Opportunity to work with talented and experienced team members who have devoted their lives to solving this problem. . Fully virtual: work from the comfort of your home with periodic in-person retreats. . . Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB). . We want to make our clinical services available for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or how you identify. To achieve this, we recognize we must continually make progress in building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive team. Through these efforts, we support two primary objectives at InStride Health:. . . Providing high quality patient care to families. We are in a privileged position to support families during a vulnerable time in their lives. We approach all families and each other with compassion and are most effective as a diverse team where all individuals feel valued, respected, and accepted.. . Building a mission-driven business that lasts. Specifically, we believe our commitment to a supportive culture improves innovation, decision-making, and efficiency.. . . We invite you to share any additional information about yourself or your experiences that may not be reflected in your CV. Inclusion of this information is completely voluntary.. . 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