Physician - Psychiatry

Psychiatrist Position

Clinical services are provided by a physician who has completed residency training in Psychiatry. S/he must be qualified to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with mental illness according to standard, usual, and acceptable methods and techniques. Core privileges include admission, evaluation, diagnosis, and provision of treatment including consultation to adult patients presenting with mental, behavioral, addictive or emotional disorders. Privileges include providing consultation to other physicians regarding mental health, behavioral or emotional and geriatric disorders, pharmacotherapy, and group and family therapy, behavior modification, consultation to the courts, and emergency psychiatry as well as ordering diagnostic, laboratory tests, and prescribing medications. Core privileges also include the care of the ambulatory medically ill patient, including the prescription and ordering of non-psychiatric medications and performing medical history and physical examinations.

Duties include managing a panel of patients s/he follows on a regular basis and may also see unscheduled patients, providing medication management services, coordinating patient care while developing and presenting treatment plans to the multidisciplinary treatment team; initiating consults, referrals, and psychotherapy as indicated; and documenting clinical activity in the Veteran's computerized medical record. The psychiatrist also provides clinical support, guidance and oversight for the Mental Health (MH) services of the Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) MH staff and liaison to Primary Care as needed and directed by MH Service Line (SL) management. Additionally, the psychiatrist serves on at least one Medical Center Committee or representing the MHSL on special Medical Center projects or initiatives, documents the care provided in the electronic medical record in a timely and complete fashion, maintains training and waiver for provision of Suboxone as well as other psychiatric interventions deemed necessary by MHSL management, provides some inpatient coverage and on-call responsibility and rotating weekday evening phone coverage.

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Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): An incentive is authorized for highly qualified candidates.

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Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided

Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm with potential for night, weekend and holiday coverage.