Psychiatrist

The Emily Program•Saint Paul, MN

38d

About The Position

Our vision is a world of peaceful relationships with food, weight, and body image, where everyone with an eating disorder can experience recovery. We believe that exceptional, individualized care leads to lasting recovery from eating disorders. That’s why our teams are comprised of compassionate, dedicated professionals from a variety of backgrounds who collaborate to provide the very best evidence-based care for our clients at all levels of care. The psychiatrist is responsible for providing psychiatric assessment and treatment for patients (defined by licensing and regulatory standards), at clinical sites at which the psychiatrist is assigned. The psychiatrist is expected to function as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team, treating patients with eating disorders and related or comorbid psychiatric conditions. The psychiatrist will serve patients in a gender-inclusive environment of all ages and across multiple levels of care. Further, the psychiatrist shall serve as a resource to the medical and behavioral treatment teams around best-practice psychiatric care.

Requirements

MD or DO
BC/BE in Psychiatry
Possession of a current medical license in the state where the physician will practice, and open to multi-state licensure if need arises
Current unrestricted DEA license
Completion of an accredited residency program in Psychiatry

Nice To Haves

Experience with eating disorder patients, preferred
Child and Adolescent certified, preferred

Responsibilities

Provide direct psychiatric services through the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients, including appropriate exam, work-up and the prescription of medications and other interventions as indicated.
Evaluate, diagnose, and treat psychiatric complications of eating disorders, as well as intercurrent conditions, for patients at the different levels of care offered at the facility. Frequency of visits should be dictated by clinical need, and facilitate appropriate psychiatric care for the clinical severity and in accordance with direction from site/regional psychiatry leadership
Develop the psychiatric treatment plans of all assigned patients and update with each visit
Provide treatment guidance as needed to ancillary psychiatric providers, which will vary per region.
Liaise by telephone with each patient’s ambulatory provider as needed during treatment in the context of significant concerns.
Liaise with families of patients as indicated
Ensure there is psychiatric follow up in the community of all inpatient and residential patients on caseload within a reasonable time after discharge, to assess stability for next level of care, and to complete follow-up recommendations
Work with the Utilization Review team to provide psychiatric information to support the facilitation of peer-to-peer insurance reviews, determination of appropriate levels of care, arbitration of clinical appeals, etc.
Participate in staff conferences and education, and serve on clinical committees as assigned
Participate in program development with site/regional psychiatric leadership as interested and assigned
Maintain license and uphold all board certification requirements
Perform all assigned supervision requirements as needed if on-site collaborating physician
Complete all documentation in a timely manner
Participate in call schedule
Perform other duties as assigned or identified

Benefits

HSA and PPO insurance with HSA or FSA options (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
Dental insurance (Delta Dental)
Vision insurance (EyeMed)
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Company-paid life insurance
401(k) plan available two months after start date
Company 401(k) matching for up to 50% of your contribution, up to 6% of your compensation
Generous PTO plan accrues annually
Seven paid holidays
One floating holiday