Physician - Psychiatry

The Interventional Psychiatrist will provide direct care in accordance with the VA goals of high-quality, Veteran-centered healthcare that embraces the recovery model. They will evaluate Veteran's symptoms and provide diagnostic clarification, monitoring, recommendations for treatment, and provide mental health interventions (ECT, TMS, esketamine, ketamine) as needed. This position is for a psychiatrist who is interested in assisting with some clinical research, although direct patient care will form the bulk of work hours. The teaching of psychiatry residents will also be part of the position. Additionally, they take inpatient calls as assigned ~1 - 2 weeks total per year. This psychiatrist also functions in a collaborative fashion with other departments, programs, and medical staff members to provide appropriate inpatient, outpatient, residential, and consultative psychiatry services.

The major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provides direct patient care in an outpatient mental health setting with certain interventional procedures performed in the PACU/Special Procedures Unit.
• Functioning as part of a multi-disciplinary care team working with other physicians, psychologists, social workers, LMFTs, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, Clinical Pharmacy Practitioners, nurses, and support staff. Provides high quality and efficient care and must be able to work well as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
• Maintains competency in all aspects of Psychiatric care to include ECT, Esketamine, Ketamine and TMS. Maintains up-to-date knowledge in medication management, including adverse reactions and their appropriate treatment.
• Uses appropriate documentation to record patients' medical history and all aspects of the patients' psychiatric course of treatment.
• On-call responsibilities for the inpatient unit are mostly from home except for occasional weekend or holiday coverage when inpatient staff may be limited.
• Participation in interventional psychiatry clinical research to complement clinical care
• Psychiatry resident teaching