What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychiatrist position at Avenue360 Health and Wellness?
Our Compensation Package Includes:
- Generous Paid Time Off- (11 paid holidays per year, 2 Floating Holidays per year, 14 paid Vacation days per year, 4 hours per month of accrued Sick days)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401K match up to 4%
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
Overview:
Provides psychiatric and counseling services to clients of Avenue 360 outpatient medical care programs as well as its mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. Full- or Part-time. Multiple Locations/Virtual.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Diagnostic Assessments: comprehensive evaluation for identification of psychiatric disorders, mental status evaluation, differential diagnosis which may involve use of other clinical and laboratory tests, case formulation, and treatment plans or disposition.
Emergency Psychiatric Services: rapid evaluation, differential diagnosis, acute treatment, crisis intervention, and referral as needed during clinical hours, and Emergency room referral is allowable as the client’s needs warrant.
Brief Psychotherapy: individual, supportive, group, couple, family, hypnosis, biofeedback, and other psychophysiological treatments and behavior modification.
Psychopharmacotherapy: evaluation and medication treatment of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to, anxiety disorders, major depression, pain syndromes, habit control problems, psychosis and organic mental disorders, medical management of substance use disorders.
Rehabilitation Services: some, but not necessarily all, of the following: physical, psychosocial, behavioral, and cognitive training.
Completes all EMR required fields after each visit including the e-signing of notes.
Quality Management: Performs QM/QA activities.
Collaborates with supervisor and appropriate departments in grant writing and reporting, marketing, finance, operations, and others as requested.
Other duties as assigned.
Education, Licensure/Certification:
Current medical license within the State of Texas.
BC/BE in Psychiatry.
Current BLS Certification required.
Education, Licensure/Certification:
At least 5 years of experience in providing services to adult and pediatric populations.
Ability to relate to culturally diverse patients and community.
Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
Fulfill CME requirements to maintain license and board certification.
Continuing Education and Training Requirements:
Participates in required trainings by the funding source and/or as required by licensure.
