Part-Time Medical Director – Mental Health, Substance Use

Grace Care Homes

. Support planned New Jersey outpatient mental-health and substance-use treatment services, with potential expansion into intensive outpatient and residential addiction treatment .

Posted 10/13/2026part-timeRemote • New Jersey • United StatesLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in outpatient mental health and substance use treatment, with a focus on clinical planning, policy development, and medical leadership. Holds necessary qualifications for medical director roles and possesses experience in addiction medicine and psychiatry.

Highest-signal resume keywords

MD Or DO With Active New Jersey Medical LicensePsychiatry Board Certification Or EligibilityAddiction Medicine Qualifications And ExperienceOutpatient Clinical Leadership ExperienceNew Jersey Facility Licensing And Medicaid Enrollment

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Hard Skills

Clinical PlanningPolicy DevelopmentChart ReviewQuality ImprovementMedication ProtocolsEmergency ProceduresClinical DocumentationPayer EnrollmentSupervision ArrangementsAddiction Psychiatry Experience

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationConsultation

Tools & Technologies

Electronic Documentation

Certifications & Qualifications

Active New Jersey Medical LicenseDEA CredentialsMalpractice Arrangements

Industry Keywords

Outpatient TreatmentIntensive Outpatient ProgramResidential Addiction TreatmentChild And Adolescent ExperiencePsychiatric Nurse Practitioners

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support planned New Jersey outpatient mental-health and substance-use treatment services, with potential expansion into intensive outpatient and residential addiction treatment
Focus initially on clinical planning, licensing documentation and policy development
Provide medical leadership, chart review, virtual case conferences, consultation with treating clinicians and quality improvement
Review proposed services and patient ages
Develop admission criteria, clinical policies, medication protocols and emergency/referral procedures
Support clinical recruitment
Supply credentials for medical-director designation and payer enrollment
Establish appropriate supervision or collaboration arrangements
Maintain agreed clinical availability
Provide patient appointments and prescribing only if separately agreed
Define scope, coverage plan and compensation for additional programs or locations

Requirements

What you’ll need

MD or DO with an active, unrestricted New Jersey medical license
Ability to meet medical-director qualifications for each assigned program
Psychiatry board certification or eligibility preferred
Documented addiction-medicine or addiction-psychiatry qualifications and experience appropriate to assigned services
Experience with outpatient clinical leadership, electronic documentation and quality assurance
Appropriate DEA and New Jersey controlled-substance credentials when required for assigned duties
Payer participation eligibility and appropriate malpractice arrangements before engagement
Preferred: New Jersey facility licensing and Medicaid enrollment
Preferred: outpatient, IOP and residential addiction leadership
Preferred: work with psychiatric nurse practitioners
Preferred: child and adolescent experience where applicable
Submit CV, New Jersey credentials, board certifications, relevant program experience, patient age groups served, availability, current clinical leadership commitments and proposed startup and monthly fees

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote administrative and consultation work
Part-time scheduling within agreed coverage needs
Opportunity to help develop clinical programs
Compensation negotiable based on qualifications, responsibilities and hours
Startup work, ongoing oversight and patient care will be priced separately in a written agreement