Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist - Locum Coverage

About the role

This role involves providing locum tenens child and adolescent psychiatric services in inpatient and outpatient settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, develop treatment plans, and manage medications for patients primarily aged children and adolescents, with flexibility to treat adults if needed
• Operate on a day shift schedule, with negotiable call coverage, including weekdays, weekends, and PRN vacation coverage
• Handle variable caseloads, with responsibilities across inpatient and outpatient environments
• Engage in comprehensive patient care, including initial evaluations, follow-ups, and medication management
• Work on-site in a setting that emphasizes continuity of psychiatric care across diverse patient populations

Qualifications

• Prescriptive authority
• Board certification in psychiatry

Skills

• Relevant experience in child and adolescent psychiatry
• Flexibility to treat adult patients
• Necessary certifications and prescriptive authority