Psychiatrist

Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Psychiatrist will embody and demonstrate our Core Values while serving as a key resource for the integration of behavioral health into primary care. The role involves collaboration with primary care physicians, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals to enhance patient care and education.

Requirements

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES & FUNCTIONS

While living and demonstrating our Core Values, the Psychiatrist: 

• Be a resource for the primary care physicians and the integration of behavioral health into primary care
• Serve as a collaborative physician for psychiatric nurse practitioners and others.
• Attend administrative and clinic meetings and provide in-service education as
• Appropriate, such as Behavioral Health Level 10 and the Clinical Advisory Board Meetings, and others as assigned
• Assist in the job shadow portion of the interview process or orientation of new staff when requested
• Provide a full range of psychiatric services to assigned patients. Services provided include direct care of patients in the clinical setting including: assessment, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of patients and determining the degree of disabilities in patients
• Prescribe medication to patients as deemed necessary and will conduct medication management
• Document all services in the patient’s electronic medical record
• Analyze and evaluate patient data and test findings to diagnose nature and extent of mental disorder
• Prescribe, direct, and administer psychotherapeutic treatments or medications to treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
• Collaborate with physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, or other professionals to discuss treatment plans and progress
• Gather and maintain patient information and records, including social and medical history obtained from patients, relatives, and other professionals
• Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patient to provide information on general physical condition and mental disorder
• Participate in treatment team activities to include the development and periodic review of patient treatment plans and will take necessary steps when a patient refuses treatment.
• Ensure all peer review audits are completed in a timely fashion as requested
• Timely completion of patient records in accordance with the organization’s Open Document Policy
• Contact any care companies, support services and other involved agencies as needed.  
• Attend staff meetings, clinic huddles, and other meetings as necessary or required. 
• Maintain update and sign medication notes and the medication log sheets, consent to medication documents ensuring to provide psychopharmacological education to all patients.  
• Review and sign the CBE (part one) completed by the Mental Health Therapist to ensure accuracy and congruence of information gathered in the evaluation.
• Models collaborative practice by fostering a culture of trust, respect and fairness to all stakeholders and all clinical staff
• Provide forty (40) hours of service per week, including thirty-two (32) hours of direct patient care per week (75 visits per week). Must be present (40) forty hours per week, which includes administrative time
• Ensure that Behavioral Health on-call rotation is developed and maintained
• Participate in behavioral health on-call rotation, which may include after hours, holidays and weekends
• Develop evidence-based clinical standard operating procedures
• Uphold federal and state mental health regulations.
• Adequately completes required peer reviews or other audits within required time frames.
• Timely completion of patient records in accordance with the organization’s Open Document Policy
• Demonstrate compliance and highest integrity with industry recognized billing practices
• Achieve and maintain Board certification, CMES, ACLS/BLS certification
• In the future may require to participate in call rotation.
• All other duties as assigned

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MD/DO Degree
• Graduate Medical Education in an ACGME Accredited Psychiatric Residency Program Current certification by the Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, or by the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry, or possess qualifications acceptable to the Review Committee
• DEA Certification
• BLS and ACLS Certification
• No history of professional misconduct, as documented by National Data Bank, Child Abuse and Criminal History clearances. (Any infraction must be reviewed in detail with the VP HR and CMO)
• Valid physician license for State of Pennsylvania
• Previous leadership / administrative experience required
• Be willing to combine administrative/teaching and patient care responsibilities
• Possess strong administrative and team building skills
• Excellent communication skills to manage a wide range of relationships with colleagues, and patients and their families
• Emotional resilience, a calm temperament and the ability to work well under pressure 
• Teamwork and the capacity to lead multidisciplinary teams
• Problem-solving and diagnostic skills 
• Outstanding organizational ability and effective decision-making skills
• First-class time and resource management for the benefit of patients  
• Previous participation as an active faculty member in an ACGME-accredited psychiatry residency program or graduate medical education administrative experience is highly desired
• Recent scholarly activity such as peer reviewed funding, publication of original research or review articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in textbooks, publication or presentation of case reports or clinical series at scientific society meetings, or participation in national committees or educations organizations highly desired
• Valid driver’s license