Physician - Staff Psychiatrist

Job Title

Staff Psychiatrist

Job Description

The Staff Psychiatrist is primarily responsible for the overall psychiatric care delivered to enrolled Veterans at the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center. Psychiatric care includes diagnosing and appropriately treating the patients' psychiatric and/or behavioral problems, managing use of antipsychotic medications, providing consultative psychiatric services for other disciplines when needed, collaborating with medical providers, clinical pharmacists, psychologists and other interdisciplinary treatment team members, responding to psychiatric emergencies within the facility. The provision of psychiatric care may be delivered on-station or remotely through telehealth. The Mental Health Service Line is comprised of inpatient, outpatient and residential programs to which a Staff Psychiatrist may be assigned. Although the setting may differ, the overall functioning of a Staff Psychiatrist remains the same.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM (subject to change based on agency needs)