Featured Behavioral Health Candidates

All candidate identities are confidential. Full details shared only with verified employers.

MentalHealthRecruiters.com regularly represents psychiatrists, PMHNPs, psychologists, LCSWs, and behavioral health executives who are actively interviewing for new opportunities. The categories below describe the types of clinicians currently in our active pool. Specific names, current employers, references, and complete CVs are released only to employers who have signed an engagement agreement.

How to Engage a Featured Candidate

1. Contact us at 1-888-812-3452 or through our contact form to describe your open role.
2. A behavioral health recruiter will identify featured candidates whose specialty, licensure, geographic interests, and compensation range match your opening.
3. After a brief written engagement agreement is in place, we share full candidate profiles and coordinate interviews.

Candidate Categories

• Psychiatrists — board-certified general adult, child and adolescent, addiction, geriatric, forensic, and consult-liaison psychiatrists, including telepsychiatry-experienced clinicians with multistate licensure.
• PMHNPs — the largest segment of our active candidate pool, with backgrounds across hospital systems, community mental health, integrated primary care, and full-time telehealth practice.
• Psychologists — clinical, counseling, and pediatric psychologists, plus neuropsychologists with assessment expertise.
• LCSWs and LMFTs — outpatient therapists, intensive outpatient program clinicians, integrated behavioral health staff, and school-based mental health professionals.
• Behavioral Health Executives — medical directors, chief behavioral health officers, VPs of behavioral health services, and program directors with operational and clinical leadership backgrounds.

Candidate Confidentiality Policy

Confidentiality is the foundation of our candidate relationships. We never publish candidate names, current employers, or identifying details on public pages. Candidate information is shared with employers only under a signed engagement, and only after the candidate has reviewed the opportunity and granted written permission to be presented. This policy protects clinicians who are evaluating new roles while currently employed and ensures that our employer partners receive serious, qualified, available candidates rather than passive resumes.

Most of our featured candidates are currently employed and conducting confidential job searches. Premature exposure of a job search can damage referral relationships, complicate transitions of care for current patients, and in some cases violate employment agreements. By holding identifying details until an employer is engaged and a candidate has consented to introduction, we protect the clinician while still giving employers timely access to qualified, available talent.

What Makes a Candidate “Featured”

Featured status is reserved for candidates who meet three criteria: they are actively interviewing within the next 30 to 60 days, their licensure and credentials have been verified, and they have given a recruiter explicit permission to be marketed for new roles. This means employers engaging a featured candidate are working with someone who has already decided to move and who has already cleared baseline credentialing checks. The result is a dramatically faster path from first conversation to signed offer.

Many featured candidates have reasons to move that have nothing to do with compensation. Common drivers include relocation for a partner or family, a desire to leave inpatient call, interest in transitioning to telehealth, exit from administrative roles back to clinical practice, or a need for sub-specialty alignment that their current employer cannot provide. Understanding the actual driver of a candidate’s move is one of the most important services a behavioral health recruiter provides, and it lets employers craft offers that resonate.

Recent Placement Examples (Anonymized)

• Adult psychiatrist placed with a mid-Atlantic health system — outpatient practice with limited consult call, signing bonus, and student loan repayment.
• Child and adolescent psychiatrist placed in a Pacific Northwest community mental health center — mixed in-person and telehealth caseload, four-day work week.
• PMHNP placed with a national telepsychiatry vendor — fully remote, multistate caseload, productivity bonus structure.
• Clinical psychologist placed in a hospital-based assessment program — salaried position with administrative time protected.
• LCSW placed with an integrated primary care behavioral health program in the Southeast.
• Behavioral health medical director placed with a multi-site outpatient mental health group, with equity participation.

All placement examples have been anonymized to protect candidate and employer confidentiality.

How Featured Candidates Compare to Database Sourcing

Most behavioral health recruiting begins with database sourcing: searching through thousands of clinician records to find candidates who might be open to a conversation. That process works, but it is slow and produces a high volume of candidates who are not actually moving. Featured candidates compress the timeline. By the time a clinician is on our featured list, the recruiter has already validated licensure, board status, geographic flexibility, schedule preferences, telehealth willingness, and compensation expectations. The first introduction to an employer is therefore much closer to a hiring decision than a typical first call.

For employers with urgent vacancies, this difference can be measured in weeks. A featured PMHNP candidate can often complete a video interview, on-site visit, and offer negotiation within three to four weeks of an employer engagement, where a cold-sourced search might take twice as long. For child and adolescent psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, and behavioral health executives where supply is especially constrained, working through featured candidates is often the fastest path to a successful hire.

Becoming a Featured Candidate

Behavioral health clinicians who would like to be considered for featured status can submit a confidential profile through our contact form or call 1-888-812-3452. After an initial conversation with a recruiter and verification of credentials, qualified clinicians who are actively interviewing within the next 30 to 60 days may be added to the featured pool. There is never a fee to candidates and no obligation to accept any opportunity we present.

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