Clinical Psychologist- Part Time

Build & Lead Backpack Healthcare's Clinical Psychology Program
Multi-State | Telehealth | Maryland, Georgia, Michigan, Virginia & Illinois

Backpack Health is expanding its clinical services and is seeking an experienced Lead Clinical Psychologist to launch and lead our clinical psychology program.

This is a unique opportunity for a psychologist who wants to do more than provide clinical care—you’ll have the opportunity to build a program from the ground up
, beginning with comprehensive psychological evaluations and growing into a broader leadership and supervision role.

You’ll provide high-quality assessments for children, adolescents, and families, including evaluations for ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other developmental, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive concerns
. As the program grows, you’ll help establish clinical standards, supervise psychology staff, and shape a sustainable and scalable psychology service line.

Psychological Assessment & Clinical Care

• Conduct comprehensive psychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and other populations served by Backpack Health.
• Evaluate ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other clinically appropriate referral questions.
• Select, administer, score, and interpret standardized psychological and diagnostic assessments.
• Conduct clinical interviews and review records and collateral information from caregivers, schools, providers, and other authorized parties.
• Prepare clear, timely, and clinically sound reports with diagnostic impressions and individualized recommendations.
• Provide thoughtful feedback to clients and caregivers and support understanding of evaluation results.

Build & Lead the Psychology Program

• Partner with Clinical, Operations, Billing, Credentialing, and executive leadership to launch and develop the clinical psychology service line.
• Establish referral criteria, assessment workflows, documentation standards, scheduling processes, and quality expectations.
• Develop processes that support efficient, high-quality, and accessible psychological assessment services.
• Monitor assessment volume, reimbursement, staffing needs, expenses, and workflow performance.
• Serve as Backpack Health’s subject matter expert in psychological assessment.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, access, efficiency, and financial sustainability.
• Help identify, recruit, onboard, and develop a qualified Psychological Associate.
• Provide clinical supervision consistent with applicable state laws, licensing requirements, ethical standards, and Backpack Health policies.
• Review delegated assessment activities, scoring, interpretation, documentation, and recommendations.
• Ensure services remain within each clinician’s training, competence, and permitted scope of practice.
• As the program expands, transition into broader supervision and leadership responsibilities.

Quality, Compliance & Collaboration

• Maintain compliance with HIPAA, payer requirements, state regulations, professional ethics, documentation requirements, and test-security standards.
• Collaborate with therapists, psychiatric providers, care coordinators, schools, and other members of the care team.
• Participate in quality assurance, clinical audits, utilization review, and corrective-action activities.
• Identify and elevate clinical, operational, regulatory, reimbursement, or staffing risks.

Launch Period

• Compensation will be structured as a 60/40 revenue split based on reimbursed claims for eligible psychological evaluations.
• Lead Clinical Psychologist: 60% of revenue actually reimbursed for eligible evaluations.
• Backpack Health: 40% retained to support billing, scheduling, credentialing, administrative, and operational expenses.

Growth & Leadership
As the program expands and the role assumes supervision…