PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER / PSYCHIATRIST MD

Description

Summary:

To work as part of an interdisciplinary team providing direct patient care, consultation and supervision in a collaborative effort to identify and treat patients. The psychiatrist provides comprehensive psychiatric care, including diagnostic interviews, medication, medication reviews, and therapy to patients.

Requirements:

• Completes a structured clinical interview on all new patients; documents all patient care in electronic medical record
• Consultation to primary care providers
• Facilitates ongoing chart reviews to ensure quality indicators are met
• Conducts educational sessions for mental health clinicians, social services staff, outside agencies and primary care providers
• Observes the Health Care System’s compliance policies
• Maintains patient/employee confidentiality in the management of information.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• General Residency in Accredited Residency Program
• Child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship to treat child and adolescent patients
• Board Certified / Eligible or Psychiatry Residency / Fellowship in progress
• Experience with geriatric population in a healthcare setting, preferred.
• Research experience, preferred.
• Bi-lingual, English/Spanish preferred.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action:

The Institute for Family Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. This job summary is intended to be brief and may not list all the duties and functions required, however, it does highlight the essential requirements. Nothing outlined in this job summary is to be construed as an express or implied contract of employment.

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