Staff Psychiatrist needed just outside Madison, WI
Franklin, Tennessee, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Psychiatry-Child/Adolescent
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Location
53562, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
12/02/24
The Psychiatrist is responsible for the medical and psychiatric aspects of admitting and treating patients. Responsible for the initial and continued assessment of patients and for their treatment ensuring the existence of an up-to-date treatment plan appropriate to the patient’s psychiatric and medical condition and psychosocial background and making sure that treatment proceeds in an effective manner in accordance with the treatment plan.
Job Responsibilities
· Reviews medical information on patients to ensure medical stability and to offer medical recommendations.
· Evaluates patients for mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.
· Treats or direct treatment of patients, utilizing a variety of psychotherapeutic methods and medications.
· Reviews and completes medical information for individual care plans, documents 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.
· Performs a variety of professional assignments such as involvement in the admission of patients 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 patient.
· Provides information, documentation, and personal insights about our patients’ progress to clinicians and other treatment professionals.
· On call rotation
Qualifications
· One or more years’ post graduate degree practice preferred.
· Current license to practice medicine, by the state in which the facility(s) operate.
· Board certification or certificate of admissibility for board certification in a behavioral health specialty.
· Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working.
· Additional specific DEA credentials may be required, per state and facility regulations or policy.
· CPR and de-escalation and restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).