Job Description
Job Description
Position: Psychiatrist
Schedule: 2 days-10hour/week
Responsibilities include:
- Manages the care of patients in collaboration with other health professionals and members of the health care team in order to make decisions about treatment and attain health goals.
- Ensures that medical and patient care provided at clinics is maintained at the highest levels of excellence and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations and best practices.
- Provides high quality patient care to clients, both children and adults
- Provide urgent psychiatric evaluations, initial evaluations and deliver ongoing psychiatric services for patients as appropriate to each patient.
- This includes comprehensive history, current medications, allergies, pertinent medical and psychiatric history, psychosocial and developmental history and an appropriate mental status examination.
- Formulation of a diagnostic assessment, treatment plan, disposition and follow up care. This includes: rendering diagnoses, ordering and interpreting diagnostic test(s) as appropriate, recommending therapeutic treatment modalities (including medications), providing appropriate patient instruction and/or referrals, monitoring symptoms, progress of treatment and treatment response as appropriate.
- Prior medical and/or mental health records from outside providers will be requested as appropriate.
- Responsible for diagnostic clarity and medication management of patients in need of psychiatric medication and/or addiction medication.
- Participates in case conferences and work closely clinical staff
- Meets with the Clinical Director regularly for mutual communication on clinic activities, project status, requirements and compliance.
Qualifications:
- Must be a graduate of an accredited medical school and have completed of Psychiatry Residency at an accredited program
- Must hold an active, valid and unrestricted license from NY Medical Board to practice as a Psychiatrist in the state of NY, with no pending or previous disciplinary action from any state licensing entity.
- Must hold Board Certification in Psychiatry or be Board Eligible in Psychiatry.
- Maintains an active and current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) certification.
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off