Job Description
Position Summary:
The Clinical Psychiatrist will evaluate, diagnose and treat patients with mental disorders. This role is integrated within the primary care clinic to function as a member of multi-disciplinary and administration teams in the provision of mental health and substance use screening protocols for adult & pediatric patients. This role may prescribe medication or suggest therapy according to their patents' needs.
Job Responsibilities:
- Helps patients by evaluating medical and psychosocial conditions.
- Develops and implements treatment plans, including prescription of psychotropic medications.
- Monitors and evaluates treatment results.
- Evaluates patients by interviewing patient, family, and other persons; conducting physical examinations; observing behaviors; reviewing medical history and related documents; selecting, administering, and interpreting psychological tests; and ordering laboratory tests and evaluating results.
- Develops treatment plans by determining nature and extent of cognitive, emotional, developmental, social, and behavioral disorders and establishing treatment goals and methodologies.
- Treats patients by utilizing psychotherapeutic methods and medications; discussing progress toward goals with patients; providing instructions; monitoring effect of medications; and supervising staff provision of services.
- Maintains interdisciplinary treatment by reviewing treatment plans and progress, and consulting and collaborating with primary care physicians, mental health therapists, nurses, and other health care providers.
- Assures quality and safe service for patients and staff by enforcing policies, procedures, standards, rules, Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations requirements, and legal regulations; participating in utilization reviews; and remaining available for emergency consultations.
- Improves staff competence by providing training and discussions regarding the interrelationship between psychosocial and physiological problems, psychotropic medications, crisis intervention, and related issues.
- Maintains historical records by documenting symptoms, medications, and treatment events and writing summaries.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in continuing medical educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
- Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Qualifications:
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong documentation and monitoring skills
- Proven ability to analyze information and to think critically
- Excellent decision-making and listening skills
- Excellent patient service, care and bedside manner
Preparation and Training:
- Completion of a psychiatric residency or a family medicine/psychiatry residency in an ACGME approved residency program
- Current BC/BE in Psychiatry (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in psychiatry)
- Valid state medical license as MD or DO
- Valid DEA certificate
- 2 years’ experience working full-time as a psychiatrist in child/adult psychiatry
Independent Judgment:
Under general direction, works from organizational policies and objectives with little functional guidance. Rarely refers specific cases to supervisor unless clarification or interpretation of policies is required.
Working Conditions:
Flexible work hours are necessary at times for this position. Work requires contact with clients, family members and other professional disciplines and service agencies. Contacts may also include volunteers, court officials, interns and residents. These contacts involve an exercise of influence, tactful judgement, and proper conduct in order to negotiate matters and carry out policies and programs for the best interests of the company/patient. Applicant must be medically able to work and manage effectively with changing situations, varying workloads, interruptions, etc. in a fast-paced environment. Employees may be exposed to communicable diseases, biohazard substances, and other conditions found in a clinical environment. Travel will be required to outside agencies at times.
Mental Attention or Visual Demand:
Job requires continuous mental and visual attention, and manual dexterity when attending to patient care and medical record keeping. Repetitive work functions and diversified operations require constant alertness or activity. May involve problems of correlation or application of reports, statistics, or other data. Must have acute visual perception for patient care and record keeping requirements. Must be able to communicate via telephone and other communication systems. Normal or corrected vision is required in order to view computer screens, medical record forms, and equipment screens. Normal or corrected hearing is required for hearing alarms and for other safety considerations.
Character of Supervision:
Immediate supervision over a unit, section or department where most of the time is spent assigning, reviewing, checking work, eliminating difficulties and whereby procedures are standardized.
Physical Demands:
Position may require frequent standing/walking for extended periods of time.
Safety:
Triad Adult & Pediatric require that all employee work in a safe manner with regards to employees and patients. Any unsafe acts or conditions are to be reported immediately.
Quality Improvement
Must understand and help enforce the meaning of quality improvement:” The combined and unceasing efforts of everyone-healthcare professionals, patients, and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators-to make the change that will lead to better patient outcomes, better system performance and better professional development.”(Batalden, 2007). Committed to promoting TAPM as a medical home and incorporating the core components of a Patient Centered Medical Home into your position on a daily basis.
- Patient Centered
- Comprehensive care
- Team-based
- Coordinated
- Accessible
- Focusing on Quality and Safety
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Loan Repayment Opportunities
As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine, Inc. has access to resources to assist with the repayment of federal loans if the recipient practices within one of the following disciplines:
- Family Medicine Physician (MD or DO)
- Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
- Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP)
- Physician Assistant (PA)
- Pediatrician (MD or DO)
- LCSWs
- Nurses
National Health Service Corp program at http://nhsc.hrsa.gov/loanrepayment/