Supervisory Psychiatrist (SUD) - Recruitment/Relocation Incentive/EDRP Authorized

Medical Director Of The Substance Use Disorders Team

A full-time position is available for Medical Director of the Substance Use Disorders Team (Gold Team) in the VA North Texas Health Care System, Mental Health Service (VANTHCS MHS) in Dallas, Texas. Core responsibilities include leading and coordinating the operations of a multidisciplinary outpatient mental health team with a focus on uninterrupted high-quality care to Veterans. Incumbent monitors and ensures compliance with hospital and mental health policies, regulations, executive orders and management directives. Incumbent will collaborate with other teams/team leaders to improve communication and to ensure ongoing continuity of care for Veterans. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.

Duties include but are not limited to: In conjunction with the Clinical Directors of this Mental Health Team, the incumbent plans, organizes, and directs administrative, operational, patient and personnel activities for the team. Duties include coordinating interdisciplinary staffing, work assignments, resource allocation and direct patient care. Incumbent should be skilled in providing comprehensive psychiatric medical care (assessment, consultation, treatment) with a focus on providing care to Veterans with addictions and substance use disorders. Incumbent must be skilled in general outpatient psychiatry and addiction psychiatry, including diagnostic evaluations, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. He/she should be competent in the management of individuals with a broad range of clinical problems, including but not limited to substance use disorders, mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and psychiatric disorders in the elderly Veteran population. Incumbent is encouraged to be involved in medical student, psychiatry resident, and addiction psychiatry fellow education. In addition to administrative supervision, he/she may provide clinical supervision and act as collaborating physician for health care professionals such as Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.

Veterans served by the Gold Team tend to have serious and severe crises, be dually diagnosed, and have numerous psychosocial deficits. Treatment provided occurs through an outpatient clinic in Dallas (main campus), an outpatient opioid replacement program, and an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). VANTHCS MHS provides a full range of mental health services including general adult psychiatry, geriatrics, forensics, psychosomatic medicine, substance abuse sub-specialty services, trauma services, psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery programs, comprehensive homeless programs, peer support services, opiate replacement programs, Mental Health Intensive Case Management, vocational rehabilitation programs, domiciliary based programs and inpatient programs. There is ongoing active research in addiction psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorder, disaster psychiatry, mood disorders, and homelessness.