MD/DO - Psychiatrist

MD/DO - Psychiatrist

The Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) provides prevention, intervention and treatment services along with supports for children, youth and adults with mental and/or substance use disorders including emergency psychiatric care and community-based outpatient and residential services. Saint Elizabeth's Hospital (SEH) is the District's owned and operated adult inpatient psychiatric hospital. DBH/Saint Elizabeth's Hospital seeks two licensed clinical psychiatrists to complement SEH clinical team providing licensed psychiatry services for up to thirty three hours a week dependent upon SEH scheduling and patient care requirements.

Psychiatric responsibilities include diagnosis and assessments, determinations of medically necessary services, medication management, counseling and psychotherapy.

Requirements (duties include but are not limited to):

• The psychiatrist deployed to SEH shall have extensive knowledge and experience in the following psychiatry and patient care areas:
• Shall be able to deliver services in a manner that builds resiliency and supports consumers in accordance with the DBH/Saint Elizabeth's Hospital's services standards. Assures that consumers, family members and other stakeholders are treated with dignity and are collectively consulted when evaluating treatment and services.
• Must demonstrate competencies in all of their major duties.
• Shall be able to demonstrate welcoming attitudes, accepting values and skills in conveying empathy and hope to individuals and consumers, including those with co-occurring disorders who are under SEH's care.
• Shall be able to function as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team; provide medically necessary psychiatric services for SEH in-patient consumers to include but not limited to core services, such as diagnostic/assessment, medication/somatic treatment, counseling and psychotherapy. Contractor shall coordinate all psychiatric and medical functions required by a consumer's diagnostic/assessment and treatment plan. Contractor shall have experience with managing consumer medical data within an electronic medical record system environment.
• Shall have intermediate to advance level communication skills to include knowledge of word processing applications.
• Shall participate in and is subject to a peer review privileging and competency assessment process to monitor the quality of care delivered by qualified practitioners and credentialed staff and assure competent, recovery based treatment. Shall participate in a quality improvement program, which includes the following components and/or activities:
• Consumers and family members.
• Enhance access and availability of services;
• Treatment and prevention of acute and chronic conditions;
• Review the adequacy and appropriateness of care;
• Efficient utilization of resources;
• Review unusual incidents, deaths, and other sentinel events;
• Review consumer/family satisfaction with services;
• Reviews high volume services, high risk conditions and other psychiatry services;
• Coordination of care across behavioral health treatment and primary care treatment settings to assure compliance with standards and requirements;
• Work with consumers and SEH staff to coordinate resolution of complaints and grievances;
• Shall provide consumer and family educational information in both written materials and face-to-face contacts regarding additional available services or resources using DBH provided resource depository.
• Shall utilize best treatment practices based on research and analysis that promote recovery, reduce stigma and unconditionally enhance the quality of life; utilizes a positive therapeutic milieu that ensures active treatment and emphasizes recovery. Work with DBH clinical staff to assure consumers are provided access to cognitive behavioral psychotherapy for individuals and groups, and performs a full range of psychiatric services and assessments for consumers served.
• Performance of services shall be dependent on the needs of the SEH. SEH shall coordinate a schedule for services one week in advance. Overtime, on call and after-hour/holiday work is exempt from this contract.
• Shall be responsible for maintaining records of the medical treatment of assigned patients in compliance with Saint Elizabeth's Hospital policies and procedures. These records shall include a summary of the hospital record for discharged patients in compliance with the Saint Elizabeth's policies and procedures.
• Shall be able to work within a psychiatric hospital setting understanding there is some degree of hazard that may be present in working with emotionally disturbed consumers and their families/caretakers.
• Shall possess the necessary skills interpersonal and other to be successful in working in such an environment.
• May be required to provide expert testimony in DC Superior Court procedures regarding the dangerousness of assigned or other patients and in need for commitment involuntary treatment either as an inpatient or outpatient. Shall be responsible for all transportation cost/expenses for providing services as described.
• Smoke Free Campus: The Saint Elizabeth's Hospital facility and related structures are smoke-free buildings. It shall be the responsibility to ensure that his/her employees comply with the hospital's smoke-free policy.

Qualifications:

• US citizenship and English language proficiency
• Must have completed an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved residency training program and be board certified or board eligible.
• Background/suitability investigation.
• Must be able to be credentialed, privileged and possess a current, permanent, full and unrestricted District of Columbia license to practice medicine.
• Not required, but preferred, possession of certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Forensic certification is preferred.
• Must demonstrate mastery of a wide range of psychiatric theories, practices, and techniques used in diagnosis, assessment and medication and somatic treatment of mentally ill consumers, including a current knowledge of psycho-pharmacological treatment.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of the "Recovery Model and/or "Resiliency Model requirements.