Job Description:
Provides psychiatric services to patients by diagnosing and treating their mental illness. Work is performed under broad supervision and is guided by policies and procedures, quality assurance, public and private payor guidelines, diagnostic guidelines and professional practices and including ethical standards related to client interactions, state and federal licensure and accreditation regulations and guidelines
Job Duties and Responsibilities
1. Interviews and observes patients, obtains history, symptoms and other information, diagnoses illnesses and provides treatment to patients in the form of prescription medication(s) and brief psychotherapy, coordinating more detailed psychotherapy with other providers on the team.
2. Performs mental status and/or other medical examinations.
3. Provides technical supervision of direct treatment services performed by other service providers.
4. Provides consultation, education and training services to individuals and agencies.
5. Provides crisis intervention/emergency services.
6. Conducts psychiatric evaluations.
7. Prepares, maintains and provides required medical and administrative documentation such as clinical notes and reports, letters for patients.
8. Educates patients on illness via conversation and printed materials
9. Obtains prior authorizations for medication.
10. Assists the Clinical Services Director in establishing agency policy and procedures for the delivery of medical services.
11. Advises agency leadership with regard to developments in the field affecting its administration and delivery of medical related services.
12. Assists in the coordination of the activities of medical services with other programs within the agency.
13. Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive knowledge of the principles, standards, practices and techniques related to Psychiatry; extensive knowledge of the characteristics and precautions to be taken in the administration of psychotropic medication; extensive knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques related to individual therapy, counseling practices and risk assessment for the mentally ill thorough knowledge of individual management guidelines for Virginia.
- License to practice medicine in Virginia. Board Certified. Residency in Psychiatry.
- Valid VA driver’s license.
Preferred Qualifications
Doctor of Medicine with a completion of an approved residency in psychiatry required. Board certified by American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry and some professional clinical experience in community mental health providing care to the mentally ill.
Physical Demands
Work involves some exposure to disagreeable environmental conditions such including the requirement to intensely interacting with challenging and potentially violent individuals having unsanitary behaviors, poor hygiene and/or contagious illness.