Extra-Help Psychiatric Specialist

About the role

San Mateo Medical Center is recruiting several part-time, extra-help adult psychiatrists for intermittent and relief work on all shifts (weekday, night, and weekend) in our 24-hour psychiatric emergency department and our 24-bed acute inpatient unit. We offer an opportunity to provide great psychiatric care to those who really need it, in a relaxed yet intellectually stimulating teaching hospital located only minutes from San Francisco and Stanford University.

Responsibilities

• Conduct psychiatric assessments and make diagnoses.
• Prescribe appropriate treatment plans and prescribe therapy, psychotherapy, or rehabilitation programs.
• Cover the inpatient unit and handle emergency consultations on the med-surg and rehab services on nights and weekends.
• Directly care for 8-9 patients per day on the acute psychiatric inpatient unit, and supervise a resident team covering up to 6 patients.
• Prepare reports and maintain records of activities.
• Conduct and direct individual and group psychotherapy.
• Consult and work with other medical and/or mental health professionals in the community when necessary.
• Confer with patients' relatives regarding illness and treatment.
• Maintain records of diagnosis, treatment and prognosis according to Joint Commission of Accredited Hospitals Organization standards and other regulatory agencies, and according to San Mateo Medical Center guidelines.
• Develop comprehensive case histories.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Board certification in psychiatry, or completion of an accredited psychiatric residency program.
• Licensure/Certification: License to practice medicine in the State of California.

Knowledge

• Principles and practices of psychiatry including both individual and group psychotherapy.
• Specialized techniques, procedures, and equipment used in psychiatry.
• Current developments, trends and research in the field.
• Basic understanding of clinical supervisory principles and practices.
• Pharmacology including laws regarding informed consent, dosage ranges, drug incompatibilities, and side effects.
• Proper documentation of clinical services.
• Principles, practices, and techniques of general medicine and its application.
• Medical diagnosis and treatment.

Skills

• Perform specialized medical services in psychiatry.
• Diagnose and treat patients.
• Develop and monitor appropriate treatment plans.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients, their families, staff and others.
• Learn and apply laws, statutes, codes and regulations governing California health service providers, and JCAHO and other regulatory requirements.
• Maintain medical records and prepare reports.
• Serve on interdisciplinary teams.
• Clinically supervise licensed and professional staff.

Benefits

• Extra Help providers receive a differential of $45 per hour in addition to all other compensation, for all work performed during the assigned night shift hours of 6:00 PM - 6:00 AM in the Psychiatric Emergency Services.

Pay

• Extra help employees are paid on an hourly basis.

Schedule

• Weekday, night, and weekend shifts are all available.