Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist - Pediatrics, Kennebunk

Maine Health Behavioral Health (MHBH) seeks a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist to join our Behavioral Health Integrated team within Maine Health Pediatrics, Kennebunk. Maine Health Pediatrics, Kennebunk is a well-established practice offering complete care to all ages. This practice is well versed in integrating behavioral health into the patient experience. They value partnership and work collaboratively to optimize patient outcomes. Being integrated into a practice reduces stigma for patients, increasing their willingness to participate in care.

Role Overview

This role focuses on delivering psychiatric care within an integrated pediatric primary care model, with an emphasis on consultation, targeted intervention, and capacity-building.

Key responsibilities include:

Consultation and diagnostic clarification

• Provide psychiatric consultations to support diagnostic clarification and treatment recommendations for pediatric patients.
• Recommendations are communicated to and implemented by the primary care clinician.

Targeted, episode-based treatment

• Deliver focused psychiatric assessment and treatment for acute needs.
• Provide post-hospital stabilization and follow‑up, with transition planning to either specialty outpatient psychiatry or return to primary care management.

Interprofessional consultation

• Offer asynchronous and real‑time chart consultations to pediatric primary care clinicians across southern Maine to support care planning and management.

Primary care support and education

• Provide ongoing clinical guidance and education to pediatric primary care clinicians in evidence‑based assessment and treatment of common behavioral health conditions.
• Support development of primary care capacity to manage conditions such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and behavioral concerns.

Care navigation and system integration

• Serve as a clinical resource to help primary care clinicians and families understand and access appropriate Maine Health and community behavioral health services.
• Support appropriate triage and referral decision‑making across levels of care.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduate of Allopathic or Osteopathic Medical School. Completion of internship and psychiatric residency and/or fellowship training.
• Current or eligible licensure as a physician by the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine.
• Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or be eligible for examination by the American Board as documented by written evidence.
• Current DEA Registration Certificate.
• Demonstrated experience or strong interest in child outpatient psychiatry and treating patients with complex mental illnesses.
• Enthusiasm for medical education and mentorship, with a commitment to teaching and learning in a diverse academic environment.

This position offers:

• Competitive compensation package including sign‑on bonus and relocation assistance to qualified candidates, CME expense reimbursement, and malpractice insurance.
• Benefits include Paid Time Off, CME time, retirement options with employer contributions, medical, dental, vision, life/disability coverage, and more.
• Institutional support for obtaining a faculty appointment at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Additional Information:

Maine Health Behavioral Health (MHBH) , a Maine Health member, is Northern New England’s leading integrated behavioral healthcare system, serving predominantly southern, western, central, and Mid-Coast Maine. It is composed of southern Maine’s only nonprofit psychiatric hospital, eight multidisciplinary outpatient clinics, crisis services, crisis stabilization units, partial hospital and intensive outpatient treatment, as well as four ACT teams. This fully integrated and growing system of behavioral healthcare makes it a regional and national model…