Physician (Psychiatrist - Float) - Recruitment/Relocation Incentive May Be Authorized, EDRP

About the role

A full-time staff psychiatrist position as Float Team and Interventional Team and Research Psychiatrist is available at the Dallas VA Medical Center in the VA North Texas Health Care System Mental Health Service (VANTHCS MHS) in Dallas, TX. This position is being offered with planned support from University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW).

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive psychiatric medical care (assessment, consultation, treatment) to patients in various areas of VANTHCS MHS.
• General outpatient and inpatient psychiatry, including diagnostic evaluations, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy.
• Manages individuals with a broad range of clinical problems, including but not limited to post-traumatic stress disorder, mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders, substance use disorders and psychiatric disorders in the elderly Veteran population.
• Delivering interventional psychiatric treatments including ECT, esketamine, ketamine, and rTMS.
• Acts as the Primary Investigator in collaborative VA-University of Texas Southwestern research in rTMS.
• Conducts psychiatric clinical research.
• Serves as a collaborative member of the broader VANTHCS MHS team.
• May provide clinical supervision for and be assigned as formal collaborator for health care professionals such as Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Clinical Pharmacy Specialists.
• Provides supervision to health profession trainees.

Requirements

• VANTHCS MHS provides a full range of mental health services including general adult psychiatry, geriatrics, psychosomatic medicine, substance abuse sub-specialty services, trauma services, psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery programs, comprehensive homeless programs, peer support services, opiate replacement programs, Intensive Community Mental Health Recovery (ICMHR), vocational rehabilitation programs, domiciliary-based programs and inpatient services.
• Ongoing active research in addiction psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders, and homelessness.
• Clinical training programs exist for medical students, residents and fellows, clinical psychologists, social workers and nurses.
• VA North Texas Health Care System has an active relationship with multiple local teaching institutions.

Qualifications

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Physicians must have completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
• Board eligibility or certification by ABPN or AOBNP.
• Significant experience and skill in conducting telemental health visits and managing related technology.
• Significant experience and skill in conducting interventional psychiatry modalities including rTMS, ECT, esketamine.
• Significant experience successfully conducting psychiatric clinical research including acting as Primary Investigator on grant-funded research.

Benefits

• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package including competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases, paid time off, paid parental leave, traditional federal pension, federal 401K, free liability protection with tail coverage, and more.

Pay

Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases.

Schedule

Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm with light on-call responsibilities.