Behavioral Health Medical Director-Geriatric Psychiatrist - Part Time

About the role

The Geriatric Psychiatrist supports the overall Social Services and Behavioral Health (SSBH) Department, participates with SSBH leadership on clinical program development and clinical educational needs for WellBe as a whole. In addition, the geriatric psychiatrist will work with the entire WellBe team of clinicians through consultation, as well as individual patients as identified. The geriatric psychiatrist advises the primary care provider on appropriate medications and other treatment strategies, also providing the care team with educational support on diagnosing and managing behavioral health conditions.

Responsibilities

• Practices the WellBe mission: To help our patients lead healthier, meaningful lives by delivering the most Complete Care.
• Collaborates with a clinical “Community Team” consisting of an interdisciplinary team in managing the health and wellbeing of patients living in their homes.
• Has a successful relationship with the Market Regional Vice President, and Regional Medical Officer to achieve quality outcomes and growth in the community.
• Providing leadership, vision, and direction for the creation and progressive growth of the WellBe Behavioral Health (BH) program.
• Providing medical leadership for the BH program by establishing the psychiatric program's standard of care.
• Acts as a Behavioral Health Subject matter expert to guide WellBe’s field team members.
• Communicating effectively with referring providers; keeps providers informed about recommendations for neuromodulation care, expected duration of services, interval updates, and outcomes.
• Collaborates and strategizes with the Director of Social Work to develop appropriate patient and employee directed behavioral health/ psychiatric health programming with a focus on psychotherapy to improve health outcomes.
• Improves staff competence by providing training and discussions regarding the interrelationship between psychosocial and physiological problems, psychotropic medications, crisis intervention, and related issues.
• Develops clinical pathways based on common behavioral health conditions amongst patients (i.e., Anxiety, depression, substance abuse, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc).
• Collaborates with Director of Pharmacy to create the appropriate enterprise medication formularies.
• Helps patients by evaluating medical and psychosocial conditions, develops and implements treatment plans, including prescription of psychotropic medications.
• Evaluates patients and develops treatment plans by interviewing patient and family; conducting physical examinations; observing behaviors; reviewing medical history and related documents; selecting, administering, and interpreting psychological tests; and ordering laboratory tests and evaluating results from a cognitive, emotional, developmental, social, and behavioral disorders lens.
• Treats patients by utilizing psychotherapeutic methods and medications; discussing progress toward goals with patients; providing instructions; monitoring effect of medications; and supervising staff provision of services.
• Maintaining the quality of service and maintaining capacity to meet volume demands.
• Programmatic growth/expansion by identifying opportunities, educating referring providers, soliciting referrals, and recruiting other team members as needed.
• Understanding the impact on local and national landscape involving the WellBe clinical model consisting of: Health Policy, Socioeconomics, competition, CMS, regulatory, and other clinical data relevant to quality patient care.
• Prioritizes and acts on the most promising opportunities to improve outcomes/performance of the Community metrics (i.e