Psychiatrist- Child / Adolescent

About the Role

Southcoast Behavioral Health is a 192-bed inpatient behavioral health hospital dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality mental health care. Our multidisciplinary team works together to deliver evidence-based treatment in a supportive and collaborative environment. With modern resources, including the WellSky electronic medical record system, we are committed to helping patients achieve lasting recovery.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric care on a 24-bed adolescent inpatient unit.
• Participate in treatment team meetings and complete clinical documentation.
• Collaborate closely with clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
• Provide clinical services to patients at the facility within medical protocols defined by federal and state regulations, as well as by corporate, facility policy or procedures.
• Review medical information on patients to ensure medical stability and to offer medical recommendations.
• Ensure the physical health and care of patients, working constructively and collaboratively with other healthcare professionals is held to the highest standards.
• Review and complete medical information for individual care plans.
• Direct services and information in a timely manner, maintaining appropriate confidential documentation, compliance and billing in accordance with the policy and procedures.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required.
• One or more years' experience as a staff physician with the population served by the facility preferred.
• Current license to practice medicine by the state in which the facility operates.
• Board certification or certificate of admissibility for board certification in a behavioral health specialty.
• Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working. Additional specific DEA credentials may be required, per state and facility regulations or policy.

Skills

• Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry
• Experience or interest in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• DEA Waiver required
• Passion for providing exceptional inpatient behavioral health care
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to work alongside clinicians, nurses, and the multidisciplinary treatment team

Benefits

• Full-time, 40-hour work week
• Average caseload of 12 patients per day
• Call responsibilities with additional call pay
• Competitive negotiable compensation
• Sign-on bonus
• Productivity bonus
• Relocation assistance
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Comprehensive Acadia benefits package

Schedule

Full-time, 40-hour work week. Interview process includes an initial virtual interview followed by an onsite visit.