Licensed Psychiatrists for Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services (PBHS) clinic at HSC Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (Clinician Educator)

About the role

The Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC is seeking a full-time board certified (preferred) or board eligible Adult Outpatient Psychiatrist.

Responsibilities

• Report to and work closely with the Medical Director of Psychiatric Services.
• Provide direct outpatient psychiatric care including psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and medication treatment of mental disorders for Keck Medicine patients. This includes up to 32-35 hours per week of patient care.
• Provide treatment using neuromodulation modalities, as indicated.
• Facilitate higher level of care referrals and hospitalizations, when needed.
• Support medication treatment with brief supportive therapy and motivational interviewing when indicated, with the provider’s role and expertise primarily relating to the biological treatment of the student.
• Cover on-call emergencies, as assigned. This includes being available for urgent medication issues of patients on assigned workdays, and for your outpatient clinic patients.
• Attend weekly multidisciplinary faculty and staff meetings.
• Collaborate and consult with other mental health providers, especially related to high-risk patients, and with primary care medical providers who may also provide psychiatric medication management to patients.
• Participate in yearly merit review and performance evaluations, peer review, quality improvement activities and other unit, departmental, and division teams and committees.
• Provide supervision of psychiatry residents (PGY 2-4s).
• Attend Psychiatry Department Grand Rounds, Social Justice Forums, and Department Matters meetings.
• This is a hybrid of telemedicine and in-person clinic.

Requirements

• Must be a State of California Licensed Physician and a board certified (preferred) or board eligible psychiatrist.
• Experience in short term medication treatment, stabilization, and crisis intervention.
• Multicultural competency in working with patients of color, patients from all economic classes, LGBTQ patients, and international patients.
• Resilient, self-aware, and able to thrive in a fast paced, demanding environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TMS, Ketamine, ECT, etc.
• Experience working with issues encountered in early and emerging adulthood, including identity issues (e.g., sexual identity, gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, etc.), sexual trauma, eating disorders, and substance use disorders.
• An advanced practice clinician possessing well-developed clinical and psychopharmacological skills and the willingness to support the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines for patients.
• Effectively works in a highly diverse and multicultural patient population and LGBTQ affirmative environment.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards of professional practice and to professional integrity.
• Desire to continue to grow as a professional and committed to excellence and lifelong learning.

Benefits

• A generous benefits package includes: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term care, disability, malpractice coverage and more.
• Significant retirement benefits (USC makes a 10% contribution when you contribute 5%).
• Tuition assistance for you and your family.
• Paid professional days and parental leave.
• Access to free continuing education credits through our Grand Rounds lecture series.
• Generous paid time off.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $215,250-$300,000.

Schedule

This is a full-time clinical-educator faculty position with an academic appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and clinical service assignment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services clinic at Health Sciences Campus (PBHS@HSC).