Child Psychiatrist

The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh • Pittsburgh, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Child Psychiatrist provides psychiatric evaluation and treatment to clients with psychological, and psychiatric disorders and psychiatric oversight to clinic staff within an outpatient behavioral health clinic. This role is integral to helping clients make the move towards resiliency and healing, and becoming happier and healthier at home, school, and in the community.

Requirements

• MD or DO degree
• Active Pennsylvania medical license
• Completion of Psychiatry Residency
• Completion of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
• DEA registration
• Eligibility to prescribe controlled substances
• Current CPR and First Aid Certification required or obtained upon hire.
• Act 73 FBI, Act 34 Criminal Clearance, and Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance

Responsibilities

• Maintains responsibility for own patient panel, providing care from the continuum of initial evaluation, through to discharge.
• Performs culturally sensitive, strengths-based histories, exams, and determinations of diagnoses and appropriate treatments of clients
• Responsible for all individual client care including clinical responsibility for follow-up visits, charting, internal/external meetings, communication with community resources, and staff education. Responds to client phone calls and conducts individual medication management visits for established clients on behalf of the psychiatrist.
• Fills appropriate prescriptions timely and demonstrates intelligent decision-making regarding triaging of phone calls and lab information
• Completes accurate billing, documentation (initial evaluation, individualized treatment plans, client and family progress, treatment provided and outcomes) and insurance authorization forms within specified timeframes and in the electronic medical record
• Develops in partnership with the client and family plans for safety, crisis, and wellbeing (when needed) to support maintenance of stable functioning
• Creates a discharge plan for all clients, including discharge instructions to be given to all families

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior