About This Role
This role is for a psychiatrist who will be responsible for the medical and psychiatric aspects of admitting and treating clients at The Aviary Recovery Center. The position involves the initial and continued assessment of clients, ensuring an up-to-date treatment plan appropriate to their condition and background, and making sure treatment proceeds effectively.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical services to clients at the facility within medical protocols defined by federal and state regulations, as well as by corporate, facility policy or procedures
- Review medical information on clients to ensure medical stability and to offer medical recommendations
- Evaluate clients for mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
- Treat or direct treatment of clients, utilizing a variety of psychotherapeutic methods and medications
- Review and complete medical information for individual care plans, document services, and information in a timely manner
- Direct services and information in a timely manner, maintaining appropriate confidential documentation, compliance and billing in accordance with the policy and procedures
- Perform a variety of professional assignments such as involvement in the admission of clients to the facility, covering for professional staff during vacation or, in the absence of the regularly assigned psychiatrist, appearing in court in connection with the involuntary commitment of a client
- Provide information, documentation, and personal insights about clients' progress to clinicians and other treatment professionals
- Participate in on-call rotation
Requirements
- Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) supplemented by the completion of psychiatric residency training
- Current license to practice medicine, by the state in which the facility(s) operates
- Board certification or certificate of admissibility for board certification in psychiatry
- Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working
- CPR certification and de-escalation training (training available upon hire and offered by facility)
Nice to have:
- One or more years' post graduate degree practice
- Additional specific DEA credentials may be required, per state and facility regulations or policy
- First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit plan
Important Details
- Supervisory requirements: This position is an Individual Contributor
- Work format: onsite at the facility, may include some telehealth work to be determined by mutual agreement with the CEO
