Staff Psychiatrist - Venice Family Clinic - Santa Monica

General Information

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Work Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 9:00am-6:00pm

Posted Date

10/23/2026

Salary Range: $ - Annually

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

33756

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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Venice Family Clinic is a leader in providing comprehensive, high-quality health care to people in need. The organization has more than 500 staff who serve 45,000 people with compassion, dignity, and respect across an area from the Santa Monica Mountains through the South Bay. We have a network of clinics, Early Head Start centers, and mobile clinics, plus an expansive street medicine program to reach people experiencing homelessness. Read more about us at venicefamilyclinic.org.

Under the leadership of the Director of Behavioral Health, the staff psychiatrist is an integral part of the clinic staff, providing expertise in behavioral and mental health illnesses. Integration of behavioral health in the primary care setting is a model Venice Family Clinic has adopted for many years, offering counseling, individual and group therapy, as well as psychiatric care to manage mild to moderate mental illnesses. The staff psychiatrist serves as the bridge in creating collaborative and comprehensive care for patients struggling with significant mental health challenges and symptoms. The staff psychiatrist works cooperatively with all Clinic departments, including staff clinicians, SUMMIT staff (our harm reduction substance use program), and works with other psychiatric staff, including psychiatric nurse practitioners. The staff psychiatrist may have an opportunity to provide clinical oversight and consultation to psychiatry residents from UCLA and VAH, as well as staff psychiatric nurse practitioners who provide psychiatric care. The position requires some flexibility in work location and in days and hours for clinical care. Spanish language competency is preferred.

Target Annual Salary Range: $275,00-$348,100

Job Qualifications

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Required Qualifications:

• Possession of an active California Medical License
• Board-certified physician in Psychiatry.
• MD or DO degree required.
• Knowledge of medical problems of minority, medically underserved populations, and persons experiencing homelessness.
• Willingness to learn and fully utilize our Electronic Health Record
• Meet productivity goals as determined by the Director of Behavioral Health
• Skill in providing general adult psychiatric medical care in a high-volume clinic setting.
• Able to manage a wide range of psychiatric illnesses, especially depression and anxiety.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision to psychiatry residents and staff NP.
• Ability to work as a team with multi-disciplinary staff, different medical specializations, mental health providers, other staff, and volunteer physicians, and mid-level practitioners.
• Ability to speak Spanish such that an interpreter is not routinely needed during medical exams, preferred.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.