Addiction Psychiatry Physician Job with Veterans Health Administration in Battle Creek, MI

T he Battle Creek VA Medical Center is hiring a Psychiatrist to serve as the Chief of Psychiatry Service. The has overall responsibility for program planning involving psychiatric care for patients of the Battle Creek VA Medical Center and associated outpatient clinics. The Service Chief is responsible for all professional and administrative activities within the Service including: selection, orientation, evaluation and continuing education of staff.

Duties

The Chief of Psychiatry will split time between administrative/supervisory duties (49%) and clinical duties (51%).

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Participate in Mental Health meetings, leadership meetings, and facility committees as a representative of Mental Health Service and/or Psychiatry Service as requested.
• Management and Supervision of staff within Psychiatry Service.
• Provide clinical services as a Psychiatrist to patients including but not limited to assessing, diagnosing, and treating Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders as per facility expectations and as assigned
• Completion of proficiency reports, personnel actions, recruitment and retention, and all related personnel tasks with support and guidance from the ACOS for Mental health.
• Admit, evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation to adult patients, presenting with mental, behavioral, addictive or emotional disorders.
• Provide consultation regarding mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders; pharmacotherapy; psychotherapy; family therapy; behavior modification; consultation to the courts; and emergency psychiatry, as well as the ordering of diagnostic, laboratory tests, and prescribing medications.
• Supervise and ensure quality and timely completion in oversight of Compensation and Pension Mental Health evaluations.
• Provide Mental Health oversight to National Utilization Management Integration (NUMI) to complete appropriate and timely clinical reviews of ongoing acute psychiatric admissions.
• Development, implementation and oversight of operational policies and procedures for Psychiatry Service
• Serve as the Psychiatry Resident Clinical Training Director for all approved Battle Creek VAMC affiliations with accredited Psychiatry training programs
  
  

Serve as a member of the Mental Health leadership team, including providing coverage for the ACOS for Mental Health as needed.

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Approved!

Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized Learn more .

EDRP Authorized:Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. 

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided

Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.