Psychiatrist - Operational Stress Injury Clinic - Dartmouth
About The Position
The Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University is recruiting for a full-time psychiatrist for Nova Scotia Health’s (NSH) Operational Stress Injury Clinic in Dartmouth, NS Canada. This position is 1.0 FTE. The Department of Psychiatry is a mid-sized clinical academic department within the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry work as members of multidisciplinary teams within the Nova Scotia Health Mental Health and Addiction Program to provide general psychiatric services to patients primarily in the Central Zone and specialty services to patients across the province.
Requirements
- Fellowship in psychiatry, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, or equivalent as determined by the Department of Psychiatry; eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with assessment of police, and/or Canadian forces members and Veterans with operational stress injuries including re post-trauma, anxiety, mood, and substance use is an asset.
Responsibilities
- To be attending or consultant physician to ambulatory patients in the Operational Stress Injury Clinic.
- Conduct, order and ensure appropriate psychiatric assessments, appropriate psychosocial and laboratory investigations, and pharmacological & psychosocial interventions as per current standard practice.
- Take part in a psychiatry on-call schedule as required within the clinical program unless specifically exempted.
- Share in the short-term coverage of other services as needed during holidays or illness of other members of staff.
- Clinical direct and indirect care as part of an interdisciplinary OSI service delivery model
- Maintain OSI-specific workloads measurement outcome monitoring and data collection (e.g. RAI) as required.
- Clinical "desk-side" teaching and didactic education.
- Clinical administration.
- Include on-call service.
- Involve supervision of junior staff including residents and clinical clerks.
- Support research as needed (and conduct it if personally desired).
- Didactic teaching at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical education level as determined in discussion with the Director of Education, Department of Psychiatry.
Benefits
- Academic Funding Plan (AFP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
