Psychiatrist

Overview:

Provides psychiatric and counseling services to clients of Avenue 360 outpatient medical care programs as well as its mental health and substance abuse treatment programs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Diagnostic Assessments: Comprehensive evaluation for identification of psychiatric disorders, mental status evaluation, differential diagnosis which may involve use of other clinical and laboratory tests, case formulation, and treatment plans or disposition.
• Emergency Psychiatric Services: Provide Crisis Resolution Services and make appropriate recommendations for other crisis services as needed.
• Brief Psychotherapy: Individual, supportive, group, couple, family, hypnosis, biofeedback, and other psychophysiological treatments and behavior modification.
• Psychopharmacotherapy: Evaluation and medication treatment of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to, anxiety disorders, major depression, pain syndromes, habit control problems, psychosis and organic mental disorders; provide case consultation to other providers in organization as needed.
• Rehabilitation Services: Some, but not necessarily all, of the following: physical, psychosocial, behavioral, and cognitive training.
• Completes all EMR required fields after each visit including the e-signing of notes.
• Quality Management: Performs QM/QA activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Educational and Job Related Requirements:

• Current license with the State of Texas.
• Current Board Certification through the ABPN.
• 5+ years of experience in providing services to disenfranchised populations.

• Current BLS Certification.
• Ability to relate to culturally diverse patients and community.

• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.

Continuing Education and Training Requirements:

Participates in trainings required by the funding source and/or as required by licensure.