PHYSICIAN (PSYCHIATRY)

Job Duties

Serve as a recognized technical authority in the delivery of psychiatric medical care for child and adolescent patients and their families.

Provide treatment services including inpatient, consultation liaison services, partial hospitalization, day programs, emergency psychiatric services, tele-psychiatric services, routine/intensive outpatient services for family based intervention.

Develop treatment plans and provide appropriate therapeutic treatment services that may include medication management, various individual therapy modalities, group therapy, and family therapy.

Monitor treatment through evidence-based medicine and alters course of treatment providing follow-up care for children, adolescents, and their families with mental health and behavioral disorders.

Conduct thorough biopsychosocial evaluations of presenting children and adolescents, including family developmental histories to integrate findings from psychological testing and clinical observations.

Prescribe appropriate pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment.

Collaborate with physicians in other medical specialties on cases involving rare, complicated, and multifaceted cases that require advanced treatments.

Provide professional consultation, supervision, and collaborative medical support to other professional staff such as psychologists, advanced practice nurses, social workers, and other healthcare providers.

Serve as member of local Medical Evaluation Boards for assessment and determination of duty.

Conduct training and provides supervision over psychiatric residents, interns, medical students, psychology interns, and other medical and mental health trainees.

Assist in developing guidelines for training and evaluating its impact.

Participate in Quality Assurance (QA) functions, performance improvement programs, risk management programs, and peer review programs.

Make recommendations on improvement of work methods and organizational features while serving on committees or working groups that review and establish new treatment guidelines or updates policy for mental health across the service component.

Serve as member of the professional medical staff and provides advisory and consultative services on various local and national meetings, committees, conferences, and/or boards.