Psychiatrist

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, diagnose, and treat psychiatric and behavioral health conditions across the life span within scope of practice and granted privileges.
• Provide psychiatric services on-site and/or through telehealth, including required twenty-four-hour, seven day per week on-call psychiatry coverage as applicable to the facility care level.
• Assess and manage patients with serious mental illness, moderate behavioral health conditions, suicide risk, and other urgent or emergent psychiatric needs.
• Add, remove, or reduce suicide watch precautions for patients, consistent with clinical authority, facility procedures, and contract requirements.
• Prescribe, adjust, and monitor psychiatric medications, including monitoring for side effects, adverse reactions, and clinically indicated follow-up.
• Provide patient education regarding diagnosis, treatment goals, expected benefits, risks, medication use, and self-monitoring.
• Use evidence-based standards of care and approved screening and assessment tools in psychiatric evaluation, treatment planning, and medication management.
• Review available medical records and document clinically relevant findings in the electronic health record.
• Complete mental health assessments and follow-up evaluations for patients referred after positive intake screening or comprehensive health assessment findings.
• Collaborate with behavioral health providers, nursing, medical staff, and primary care providers to coordinate integrated care.
• Participate in individual and group behavioral health treatment programming, including support for evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches used in the facility.
• Provide consultation to clinical staff regarding psychiatric diagnosis, treatment planning, psychotropic medications, suicide risk, and management of serious mental illness.
• Respond to psychiatric emergencies and support emergency medical response, stabilization, and transfer when clinically indicated.
• Refer patients for community specialty care, hospital-level care, or other higher levels of treatment when medically necessary.
• Prepare, review, and document treatment plans, clinical notes, orders, transfer summaries, and other required medical record entries accurately and timely.
• Ensure continuity of care during transfer or discharge by documenting current diagnoses, medications, appointments, consultations, and required follow-up information.
• Maintain confidentiality of patient information and medical records in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Privacy Act, and applicable privacy and records requirements.
• Use interpreter services and other communication supports when needed to ensure effective communication with patients.
• Work effectively in a multicultural and multilingual environment and provide culturally competent, trauma-informed care.
• Participate in quality assurance, performance improvement, risk management, utilization review, audits, inspections, and corrective actions as assigned.
• Maintain proficiency in electronic health records, telehealth platforms, and other required electronic systems.
• Complete all required orientation, annual training, emergency response training, drills, competencies, and discipline-specific testing.
• Comply with credentialing, licensure, fitness, security, safety, infection prevention, and professional conduct requirements applicable to the role.
• Perform other contract-related duties within scope of practice, licensure, and clinical competency.
• Complete required organizational compliance education, including assigned requirements that are client-specified, for Joint Commission Healthcare Staffing Services certification or other regulatory bodies.
• This list is non-exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to undertake additional duties that are not specifically listed above.
• Basic Requirements/Certifications:
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted license as a Psychiatrist in Maryland or the ability to obtain one.
• Minimum of 3 years of post-licensure clinical experience in psychiatry.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Experience in a detention/correctional or residential healthcare setting is preferred.
• Education Required:
• Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from a

Benefits

Additional Information

This position is eligible for an additional sign-on bonus. Provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, medication management, crisis intervention, and continuity of behavioral health care for patients in a secure residential setting, in accordance with community standards of care, credentialing requirements, facility policies, and applicable accreditation and regulatory requirements. The Psychiatrist supports on-site and telehealth psychiatry services, contributes to the management of serious mental illness, suicide precautions, and transfer planning, and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to ensure timely, culturally competent, trauma-informed, and appropriately documented patient care.

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