Psychiatrist (Mental Health Intensive Case Management)

About the role

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.

Responsibilities

• Treat a panel of patients with Serious Mental Illness that are engaged with the MHICM program.
• Coordinate care with the case managers for individual patients in MHICM and also serve as the psychiatrist for patients in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center care.
• Perform clinical, teaching and administrative duties, including:
• Applying accepted protocols for assessment of the individual presenting with altered mental status.
• Assessment may include gathering of verbal and documented history, mental status exam, and any necessary medical, laboratory and imaging evaluations.
• Diagnostic description or formulation to guide appropriate acute and secondary treatment interventions.
• Provision of psychiatric care according to privileges.
• Teaching and mentoring psychiatry residents.
• Aiding in the performance of Electroconvulsive Therapy and supervising residents in the same.
• Assisting with meeting all necessary performance measures, completing all necessary training, and keeping up with medical and administrative documentation.
• Participating in departmental staff meetings, various hospital committees, departmental and hospital in-service programs, and education programs of the department and the hospital.
• Providing appropriate and timely documentation, generally in the form of a staff progress note, in the patient's electronic record. Cosigning resident notes, indicating supervision and concurrence with each note.
• Being responsible for all aspects of psychiatric care and providing assistance to residents and nurse practitioners in the process of evaluation and treatment of the psychiatric patient.
• May be responsible for inpatient or outpatient care, graduate and undergraduate medical education, and scientific research as appropriate.

Requirements

• U.S. 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.
• Residency Training: 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.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Outpatient experience with patients with Serious Mental Illness (SMI).
• Physical Requirements: Requires lifting 15-44 pounds; pushing (approx. 2 hours); reaching above shoulder; use of fingers and both hands; walking and standing from 3-5 hours and kneeling. Ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously. Near vision correctable at 13" to 16" to Jaeger 1 to 4. Far visions correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other. Must have depth perception and ability to distinguish basic colors and shades of colors. Hearing aid is permitted.