Child Psychiatrist

NeighborHealth•Boston, MA

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

NeighborHealth, formerly East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, is a large community health center serving the greater Boston area. We are committed to the health and well-being of our patients and communities. Every role at NeighborHealth is vital to advancing medicine and delivering the best care experience. This full-time position in Behavioral Health Urgent Care involves providing direct care to referred pediatric, adult, and/or geriatric patients. The Psychiatrist is responsible for quality patient care in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, reporting to the Medical Director of Behavioral Health or designee. The role includes conducting psychiatric/psychopharmacological evaluations, determining appropriate care settings, and providing expert consultation to medical and behavioral health staff. The position may involve longitudinal patient follow-up, educating medical and behavioral health providers, supervising PMHNP residents and students, and providing home-based overnight and weekend call coverage for emergency assessment and triage. The role may involve both telehealth and in-person work. NeighborHealth is recognized as an underserved area for the NHSC scholarship program.

Requirements

Medical degree from an accredited medical school and completion of an approved psychiatric residency
Completion of an accredited fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry or Geriatric Psychiatry required if hired to serve that patient population
Current and valid board certification in psychiatry
Subspecialty board certification in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry or Geriatric Psychiatry required if hired to serve that patient population
Licensed to practice medicine in Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Current Massachusetts Controlled Substance Registration MCSR
Current DEA registration
Excellent knowledge and familiarity with current DSM criteria
Familiar with crisis assessment tools and techniques
Strong working knowledge of general psychiatric principles and practices
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Responsibilities

Establishes rapport and develops therapeutic relationships with patients of diverse backgrounds and varying levels of motivation for change.
Demonstrates knowledge of the full range of community resources to properly guide and direct patients.
Renders accurate diagnoses utilizing the DSM 5.
Documents and presents completed assessments for clinical disposition in a clear and organized manner.
Provides consultation to and coordinates patient care with multidisciplinary staff in clinic and in the BHUCS.
Holds a DEA number, refers appropriate patients to the NeighborHealth Recovery Services program, and prescribes medications to assist with substance use recovery.
Provides urgent coverage and crisis intervention for referred patients.
Provides home-based overnight and weekend call coverage for emergency psychiatric assessment and triage and/or prescription coverage as needed to support the Administrator on Call.
Screens for domestic violence, substance use and risk behaviors with every patient, applying protocols for intervention with positive screenings.
Performs and documents outreach activities for patients who do not follow through, especially for those with known risk factors.
Demonstrates capacity to diagnose and effectively treat a range of behavioral health conditions, including anxiety, depression, adjustment disorders and moderate-severe personality disorders with evidence-based psychopharmacology.
Demonstrates excellent, advanced triage skills, assigning the appropriate level of priority at all times.
Provides education and supervision to the medical and behavioral health providers regarding psychopharmacological treatment and patient management.
Performs advanced, high quality, thorough psychosocial evaluation that contains data in support of the diagnosis, findings, recommendations and plans.
Meets the departmental documentation standards in a timely fashion.
Demonstrates excellent clinical judgement in assessing changes in risk, enlisting the Administrative and/or Medical Directors and initiating Special Clinical Reviews as indicated.
Attains working knowledge of all departmental policies and procedures and interprets them to new staff and assigned supervisees.
Applies short-term, solution-based and evidence-based pharmacotherapies to patients in the BHUCS.
Manages a full caseload consisting of patients seen for psychopharmacological consultation to medical providers, assessment, and medication management.
Maintains professional licensure, accumulating the required number and type of CMEs and submits the associated documentation to the Medical Director.
Psychiatrists hired to serve a specific patient population (child & adolescent or geriatric) maintain subspecialty board certification or credentialing in that area and fulfill any training or continuing education requirements associated with the subspecialty.
May accept responsibility for and effectively manage a departmental project, procedure or new function.
Presents clinical cases for review at daily and weekly clinical meetings according to departmental standard.
Consistently achieves direct care target of 80%, regularly analyzing with Medical Director direct care data, no show rate, and access and makes adjustments accordingly.
Masters each computer-based application required for effective performance of the functions associated with the job description.
Provides consultation, training and supervision to departmental staff, medical providers, BH interns and PMHNP residents and students as needed.
Successfully manages all aspects of the particular assigned program or departmental function.
Performs all the required steps to ensure the generation of clean claims – completing documentation, submitting encounters on time, and completing re-authorizations.