Child Psychiatrist

Responsibilities

• Maintains responsibility for own patient panel, providing care from the continuum of initial evaluation, through to discharge.
• Performs culturally sensitive, strengths-based histories, exams, and determinations of diagnoses and appropriate treatments of clients.
• Responsible for all individual client care including clinical responsibility for follow-up visits, charting, internal/external meetings, communication with community resources, and staff education.
• Responds to client phone calls and conducts individual medication management visits for established clients on behalf of the psychiatrist.
• Fills appropriate prescriptions timely and demonstrates intelligent decision-making regarding triaging of phone calls and lab information.
• Completes accurate billing, documentation (initial evaluation, individualized treatment plans, client and family progress, treatment provided and outcomes) and insurance authorization forms within specified timeframes and in the electronic medical record.
• Develops in partnership with the client and family plans for safety, crisis, and wellbeing (when needed) to support maintenance of stable functioning.
• Creates a discharge plan for all clients, including discharge instructions to be given to all families.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree
• Active Pennsylvania medical license
• Completion of Psychiatry Residency
• Completion of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
• DEA registration
• Eligibility to prescribe controlled substances
• Current CPR and First Aid Certification required or obtained upon hire
• Clearances Required: Act 73 FBI, Act 34 Criminal Clearance, and Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance