Psychiatry Emergency Medicine Physician

The Psychiatric Emergency Center is located on the 10th floor of John Peter Smith Hospital’s main building and is the only Psychiatric Emergency Center in Tarrant County. A highly skilled team of physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, social workers and support personnel provide 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week services for people in mental health crisis, both voluntary and involuntary services. People can receive triage, evaluation, observation and admission services.

 

The Psychiatric Emergency Center focuses on all individuals that present for evaluation. The multidisciplinary team assesses the person and their situation to coordinate care for the best possible treatment plan.  Primarily adult patients, with also some adolescents.

 

Services include:

• Psychiatric Triage
• Psychiatric Evaluation
• Short term interventions including observation, monitoring and stabilization of acute crisis
• Referral services that meet the needs of the individual person
• Evaluation for admission to an Acute Inpatient Unit
• Schedule - Full Time - 12 hour shifts (8:00 – 8:00).  Must be flexible to work days/night/weekends. 

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Required Education and Experience:

Current Medical Doctor (M.D) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) degree from an accredited school of medicine.

Residency and/or Fellowship training in Psychiatry.

Previous experience working in a PEC as a student or faculty member preferred, but not required.

Required Licensure/Certification/Specialized Training:

Current, unrestricted medical license to practice in the State of Texas.

Board Certification or Board Eligible.

About Acclaim Multi-Specialty Group, Inc.

Acclaim Multi-Specialty Group is a multispecialty medical practice group comprised of over 500 providers serving Tarrant County's JPS Health Network in specialties ranging from primary care to general surgery and trauma.

At Acclaim Multi-Specialty, patients are our number one priority. Acclaim Multi-Specialty Group was designed to align clinical providers with a common goal of providing the best and most affordable care for our patients.

We are committed to improving population health through patient-centered practices, aligned to health outcomes, access to primary and specialty care, medical and operational efficiencies, innovative programs, and cutting-edge research to help our community get well and stay well.

As the county hospital system, JPS has been serving the residents of Tarrant County for over 100 years. In addition to providing great care, JPS is also an urban teaching hospital with a long history of training physicians and medical students.

The hospital is located in the heart of The Magnolia Village and Medical District of Fort Worth, the 13th-largest city in the U.S. and one of “America’s Most Livable Communities.” We have a thriving center of culture, commerce, the Historic Stockyards, remarkable museums, a vibrant and clean downtown area, Botanical Gardens and great annual events!