Staff Psychiatrist - Inpatient

Job Responsibilities

• Provides clinical services to patients at the facility within medical protocols defined by federal and state regulations, as well as by corporate, facility policy or procedures.
• Reviews medical information on patients to ensure medical stability and to offer medical recommendations.
• Evaluates patients for mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.
• Treats or direct treatment of patients, utilizing a variety of psychotherapeutic methods and medications.
• Reviews and completes medical information for individual care plans, documents services, and information in a timely manner.
• Direct services and information in a timely manner, maintaining appropriate confidential documentation, compliance and billing in accordance with the policy and procedures.
• Performs a variety of professional assignments such as involvement in the admission of patients to the facility, covering for professional staff during vacation or, in the absence of the regularly assigned psychiatrist, appearing in court in connection with the involuntary commitment of a patient.
• Provides information, documentation, and personal insights about our patients’ progress to clinicians and other treatment professionals.
• On call rotation

Job Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) supplemented by the completion of psychiatric residency training required.
• One or more years’ post graduate degree practice preferred.
• Current license to practice medicine, by the state in which the facility(s) operate.
• Board certification or certificate of admissibility for board certification in a behavioral health specialty.
• Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working.
• Additional specific DEA credentials may be required, per state and facility regulations or policy.
• CPR and de-escalation and restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility)