Physician (Supervisory Psychiatrist ) - EDRP

Job Title

Psychiatrist

Duties

The duties include:

• Functions as the first line supervising authority for Psychiatry staff as assigned in the applicable programs within Mental Health & Behavioral Medicine Service.
• Provides leadership guidance, administrative as well as clinical, supervision and/or consultation as appropriate to staff in assigned areas.
• Provides administrative oversight and clinical consultation to other interdisciplinary team members for whom the incumbent is not the designated first line rating authority.
• Provides clinical supervision to psychiatry residents, Fellows, medical students, and other trainees as appropriate.
• Ensures timely access to care of patients assigned to the team, in accordance with local and national policies.
• Monitors compliance of team members with VA performance measures and effectively shapes provider practice patterns to improve standing on performance measures.
• Provides leadership and guidance in hiring of new staff members for the team.
• Resolves conflicts among team members and adjudicates complaints and problems of employees in a timely and effective manner.

Clinical Responsibilities

The clinical responsibilities include:

• Providing psychiatric evaluations, across multiple clinical settings, for veteran population with a vast array of mental health problems including personality, emotional adjustment, or mental illness and may have psychosocial issues such as homelessness, unemployment, and poor family support network.
• Providing a full range of therapeutic interventions including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation and management, suicide risk assessments, crisis intervention, and overall care of patients with psychiatric disorders.
• Practicing evidence based pharmacological interventions as deemed necessary for the treatment of mental illness with its goal of reducing psychiatric symptoms, improving interpersonal functioning and overall mental health.
• Ensuring practice of psychiatric medicine is consistent with TJC, CARF, HIPPA, VA policies and procedures, clinical practice guidelines, national statutes and regulations, medical record documentation, and mandatory continuing education.
• Participating effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborating with multidisciplinary team members to enhance care coordination efforts.
• Working effectively and in a collegial manner within a multidisciplinary team comprising of other mental health professionals including but not limited to psychologists, social workers, license practice counselors, nurses and peer support specialists.
• Ordering diagnostic tests, consultations, discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
• Participating in the teaching and supervision of medical students, residents and other trainees as assigned.

Other duties as assigned.

US Department of Veterans Affairs