Psychiatrist
Diagnoses and treats individuals with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Provides direct psychiatric services through the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment of individuals on a daily basis.
- Leads scheduled case conferences. Assures clinicians receive appropriate clinical supervision and direction.
- Completes assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, discharges, and other clinical and administrative documents in accordance with agency, managed care, and licensing requirements and standards. Regularly checks to ensure that content, signatures, credentials, dates, times, service types, and legibility meet standards.
- Reviews and approves treatment plans.
- Provides ongoing clinical services, individual psychotherapy and or family therapy to assigned cases.
- Provides urgent or emergency medical and/or psychiatric services as needed.
- Provides direct support and clinical intervention and/or identify key individuals that can provide direct and immediate support in crisis situations.
- Orders appropriate laboratory tests. Reviews results in timely manner and arranges follow-up as needed.
- Provides and documents medication education and side-effect monitoring.
- Attends and completes trainings and seminars per departmental, agency, managed care and regulatory requirements. Requirements for specific training courses and/or hours of training must be met within designated time frames. Submits verification of course completion to supervisor in a timely manner.
- Maintains knowledge of current trends and developments through review of literature and periodicals, attendance at appropriate seminars and conferences and consultation with specialists.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Psychiatrists have delegated authority to provide clinical supervision to clinicians and nursing staff in assigned programs.
May provide direct supervision to Fellows, students, and physician extenders (PAs, CRNPs).
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.