What are the responsibilities and job description for the psychiatrist (bhddh) position at Government Jobs?
To be responsible for psychiatric services of a clinical program in the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH) and/or Eleanor Slater Hospital (ESH); to provide direct patient psychiatric care as assigned; to make daily rounds; to be responsible for the maintenance of standards of psychiatric care and treatment for such services of a clinical program; and to do related work as required.
Under general supervision, works with wide latitude for the exercise of initiative and independent judgment; work is reviewed through conferences and/or reports for conformance to policies and objectives and/or adherence to accepted psychiatric practices and techniques. This may include conducting regularly scheduled team meetings with physician/psychiatrist colleagues and members of other related services within the healthcare system to discuss and evaluate new admissions, problem cases and potential discharges or transfers on an individual basis and to participate in and contribute to the making of decisions and/or recommendations relative to such patients.
This includes providing direct patient psychiatric care, evaluating patient care and treatment in terms of results obtained, and recommending a new, supplementary or amended program of care and treatment. Also, instructing staff psychiatrists and physicians in training (residents) through lectures, demonstration clinics, staff conferences and on-the-job clinical experience as part of the medical educational program within the BHDDH/state healthcare system.
Additional responsibilities include giving lectures and conducting demonstrations for psychiatrists, physicians in training, nurses, allied health professionals, and healthcare professionals and students involving psychiatric care and treatment methods and techniques. To maintain medical or psychiatric skills through participation in continuing education and maintenance of certification activities in their specialty/subspecialty.
Under general supervision, works with wide latitude for the exercise of initiative and independent judgment; work is reviewed through conferences and/or reports for conformance to policies and objectives and/or adherence to accepted psychiatric practices and techniques. This may include conducting regularly scheduled team meetings with physician/psychiatrist colleagues and members of other related services within the healthcare system to discuss and evaluate new admissions, problem cases and potential discharges or transfers on an individual basis and to participate in and contribute to the making of decisions and/or recommendations relative to such patients.
This includes providing direct patient psychiatric care, evaluating patient care and treatment in terms of results obtained, and recommending a new, supplementary or amended program of care and treatment. Also, instructing staff psychiatrists and physicians in training (residents) through lectures, demonstration clinics, staff conferences and on-the-job clinical experience as part of the medical educational program within the BHDDH/state healthcare system.
Additional responsibilities include giving lectures and conducting demonstrations for psychiatrists, physicians in training, nurses, allied health professionals, and healthcare professionals and students involving psychiatric care and treatment methods and techniques. To maintain medical or psychiatric skills through participation in continuing education and maintenance of certification activities in their specialty/subspecialty.
