Supervising Adult Psychiatrist-Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (Open & Promotional)

About the role

The Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) Division of San Mateo County Health seeks an experienced psychiatrist to serve as Supervising Adult Psychiatrist-Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (Medical Chief for South County and East Palo Alto Adult Mental Health Clinics).

Responsibilities

• Leadership in fostering integrated care for clients with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders, developmental disorders, and medical disorders.
• Provide direct services to adult clients.
• Provide supervision and clinical consultation, review and guidance to other physicians in the evaluation and treatment of BHRS clients.
• Program planning for, and teaching, mentoring, and supervision of, adult psychiatric residents, including oversight of Graduate Medical Education.
• Quality Improvement activities including reviews of hospital admissions, higher level of care requests, and review of research proposals.
• Facilitate Informational Technology activities including Electronic medical record support.
• Co-Chair the BHRS Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and support the Pharmacy Services.
• Assist the Medical Director in working with Health Plans and other Health Care and implementing regulatory and fiscal activities.
• Assume the duties of the Medical Director in his/her absence.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Licensure/Certification: License to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of California. Possession of a valid Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Knowledge: Health care management practices and principles including revenue retrieval. Current developments, trends and research in a medical specialty. Principles and practices of supervision. Development of medical policies, procedures and protocols. Preparation of comprehensive reports and other correspondence. Pharmacology and psychopharmacology including laws regarding informed consent, dosage ranges, drug incompatibilities, and side effects. Laws, statues, codes, and regulations related to the specialty area which govern health service providers, graduate medical education, JCAHO and other regulatory requirements. General Medicine and its relationship to psychiatry. Current techniques and dynamics of individual, couple, family, adult and group psychotherapy. Chemical dependency and abuse and its relationship to psychiatry. Advanced knowledge of psychiatric principles and practices. Current developments in the field of psychiatry. Community mental health practice and program options. Treatment approaches and differential diagnosis of the mentally ill. County-wide mental health services.
• Skills/Ability: Direct psychiatric programs. Clinically supervise and provide lead direction to medical/professional staff, including physicians and non-physicians. Fully supervise staff, including selection, performance evaluation, and corrective action. Prepare comprehensive reports and correspondence. Apply principles of effective management techniques. Diagnose patients and prescribe treatment or therapy in the designated specialty area. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients, their families, hospital staff, community organizations and others. Communicate effectively orally and in writing with individuals within the County or at any level within the Health Services Department.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: Completion of a residency program and three years of experience in Adult Psychiatry and supervising psychiatrists and/or psychiatry residents.