Psychiatrist

About the position

International Health and Medical Services is looking for an experienced Psychiatrist to provide comprehensive mental health assessments, diagnoses, and treatment plans for patients, ensuring they receive appropriate care. This role involves collaborating with the healthcare team to promote mental well-being, manage psychiatric conditions, and facilitate crisis intervention when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provides a full range of psycho-diagnostic services including assessment and the most appropriate psychotherapeutic techniques.
• Performs psychiatric evaluations for patients via onsite and telepsychiatry services for scheduled appointments, emergency, or urgent care visits.
• Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions and has clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessments, medication evaluation and management, suicide risk assessments, crisis interventions.
• May serve as a mental health team leader with responsibilities for coordinating consults and triage.
• Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members which enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
• Orders diagnostic tests and consultations and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
• Ensures that the practice of psychiatric medicine is consistent with Joint Commission and clinical practice psychiatric guidelines, VISN standards, national statutes and regulations.
• Participates in supervision and teaching in support of the psychiatric residency program.
• Performs on call duties.
• Involved in performance improvement and quality assurance initiatives.
• Provides leadership guidance and consultation to staff.
• Serves as a consultant to other medical center staff and Advanced Practitioners to assist in implementation of treatment plan as appropriate regarding their patients.
• Consults with the Clinical Director for complex psychiatric patients and as required by client policy.
• Provides infirmary care including admission, discharge, and daily rounds for patients that require higher levels of psychiatric care or monitoring.
• Performs comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and initiates treatment plans for patients as required by client policy, or as required for patient psychiatric complaint.
• Follows client policies in the management of significant mental illness including prevention of violence, homicide, self-harm and suicide.
• Applies knowledge of drugs and therapeutics when prescribing medication.
• Applies patient-specific knowledge to monitor and control stress levels and provide emotional support and counseling to patients.
• Coordinates psychiatric care needs of patients including referrals to off-site consultants.
• Solicits and reviews pertinent psychiatric records as indicated.
• Adheres to universal precautions.
• Utilizes and documents interpretation and/or translation and/or assisted communication services as needed to ensure ability to communicate with patients or others who are Limited English Proficient (LEP) or have a communication disability or impediment.
• Maintains flexibility and adaptability to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements.
• Provides on-call coverage as needed after regular work hours and may need to return to the facility outside of normal work hours for urgent mental health needs.
• Provides relevant patient education to patients verbally and/or with handouts.
• Documents patient care visits in the required health record using required format, in compliance with client policy and guidance.
• Maintains patient confidentiality and confidentiality of medical records.
• Completes all training as required/assigned.
• Serves in acting capacity as part of the client behavioral health leadership team.
• Mentors' Psychiatric APP onboarding and training.
• Attends on-site, regional, and national meetings as required.
• Participates in the Psychiatric APP peer review process.
• Assists in program development, policy review and revisions, and data collection.

Requirements

• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS).
• Correctional/detention clinical experience preferred.
• At least one year of general experience that demonstrates the ability to greet and deal tactfully with the public.
• Capability of understanding and applying written and verbal orders, rules, and regulations.
• All personnel shall be literate and be able to interpret printed rules and regulations, detailed written orders, training instructions and materials, and must be able to compose reports.
• Good judgment, courage, alertness, an even temperament, and render satisfactory performance through knowledge of his/her position responsibilities.
• Ability to maintain poise and self-control during situations that involve mental stress, such as fires, explosions, civil disturbances, and building evacuations.

Nice-to-haves

• Proficiency in Spanish is preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• 401k plan.
• Paid time off.
• Annual bonus.