Psychiatry - Consultation-Liaison - Full Time

Better Health for All

Santa Clara Valley Healthcare (SCVH), a large public teaching healthcare system, affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine, is seeking a full-time BC/BE full-time BC/BE psychiatrist to join our Division of Consultation-Liaison (C&L) Psychiatry.

We offer the unparalleled opportunity to gain the long-term personal and professional satisfaction of serving our patients and our diverse community, while participating in the education of the next generation of health care providers, in one of the best places to live in the United States.

About Our Organization

Santa Clara Valley Healthcare (SCVH) is the second-largest County-owned health and hospital system in California and is committed to improving the health of the 1.9 million people of Santa Clara County. SCVH is comprised of four hospitals: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC - a 731-bed central hospital), O’Connor Hospital (OCH - 358 licensed beds), Saint Louise Regional Hospital (SLRH – 93 licensed beds) and Regional Medical Center (RMC - 258 licensed beds). In addition, SCVH includes a network of primary care clinics comprised of eleven health centers throughout the County, several urgent care clinics, dental services, primary care behavioral health services, and a broad range of specialty services in our Valley Specialty Center.

SCVMC hosts four residency programs and one fellowship training program, and partners with Stanford University SOM and Stanford Healthcare for the clinical training of medical students, residents, and fellows. SCVMC is an ACS-verified Level 1 Trauma Center, a Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center, an ABA-verified Burn Center, a Primary Stroke Center, a Level 4 NICU, and a nationally recognized CARF-accredited Rehabilitation Center. Owing to its geographic location and specialty offerings, SCVMC not only serves the County, but also the larger region.

Providers in our health system also have the opportunity to use our integrated electronic health record (Epic), which brings together systemwide patient information. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recognized SCVMC for achieving its highest level of success (Stage 7), based on our continuous innovation and optimization of our inpatient and outpatient EHR.

About the Community

SCVH is located in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, offering a diverse choice of cultural, recreational, and lifestyle opportunities. Our physicians live in a range of communities, including urban (e.g., San Francisco), university (e.g., Palo Alto), high tech (e.g., many cities of Silicon Valley), mountain (e.g., Los Gatos), beach (e.g. Santa Cruz), and rural/agricultural (e.g., Morgan Hill and Gilroy). Situated in one of the most desirable regions of the country – only 45 minutes from the Monterey Bay and three hours from the Sierra Nevada – our physicians have the opportunity to enjoy a very high quality of life.

About the Department

The Department pf Psychiatry currently comprises outpatient, emergency, and inpatient services, and will be expanding its service offerings to include child and adolescent psychiatric care, with the opening of the new Behavioral Health Pavilion (BHP) in fall 2026. Our services include a Behavioral Health Urgent Care (BHUC), where walk-in crisis intervention is available 6 days per week, a 24/7 psychiatric emergency room, Emergency Psychiatric Services (EPS – up to 44 adult beds, 12 child beds), two adult inpatient psychiatric units (42 total beds), child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric units (35 total beds), adult and juvenile custody clinics, and several adult and child/adolescent mental health and substance treatment clinics at various geographically convenient locations in the county.

Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

The Division of Consultation-Liaison (CL) Psychiatry provides psychiatric consultation across Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), working with internal medicine, surgery, OB/GYN, pediatrics, trauma, burn, and rehabilitation services, and rounding at the bedside in the surgical and trauma ICUs. The CL service is now expanding to the County health system's other enterprise hospitals.

The consult population is among the most acute in the Bay Area. Our CL providers treat all patients who require psychiatric care, whatever their insurance or acuity. Our hospitals draw the most critically ill and injured patients from across the greater region, so the division routinely manages serious mental illness and critical medical illness in the same patient.

Our clinical values are presence, rigor, and partnership with early involvement at the bedside, careful reasoning in all cases, and close collaboration with the primary team. The division invests in the systems side of consultation, building the workflow and developing policies that keep care consistent across sites and clinicians. Teaching and scholarship are embedded in our daily work with bedside teaching for residents, in-services for all members of the care team, and a monthly journal club.

About the Position

The position is hospital based, with no outpatient responsibilities, Monday through Friday,

8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The psychiatrist joins a team of physicians and works alongside

dedicated nursing, psychology, and a behavioral response team. The position rotates across the system's acute hospitals. The core of the work is the same at every site - consultation on medically and surgically complex inpatients, delirium, agitation, capacity assessment, and early, proactive engagement with hospitalist and surgical teams.

At SCVMC, this extends to the full spectrum of hospital psychiatry, including involuntary holds under California's LPS Act. The service is growing, and the role includes a hand in program building led by the division chief and shared across the team. Experience developing programs within an acute care setting is desirable.

This position requires board certification or board eligibility in general psychiatry and licensure (or eligibility for licensure) in California. Fellowship training or board certification in consultation-liaison psychiatry or combined internal medicine-psychiatry (Med-Psych) training is preferred.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate experience and proficiency in delivering CL care to a diverse patient population in a culturally responsive way, with the strong communication and collaboration skills that consultation work requires.

About Compensation and Benefits

We offer competitive compensation; a generous comprehensive benefit package (including 36 days of leave per year; 13 holidays; 5 CME days); comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; long-term disability insurance; AD&D insurance; life insurance; retirement plans; paid malpractice with tail coverage; and possible relocation reimbursement (pre-approval required).

SCVH employees may be eligible for federal loan repayment assistance. For information regarding the National Health Service Corp (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program and other related programs, please visit and.

The San Francisco Bay Area is well known for its rich diversity of cultures. SCVH seeks candidates whose experiences have prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence. The County of Santa Clara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious belief, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or preference, pregnancy, marital status, disability, medical condition, political belief, veterans’ status, organizational affiliation or association with any individual in any of these groups. SCVH is committed to inclusion for all of its patients, employees, and community.