Southcoast Behavioral Health - Now Hiring: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist- Full-Time Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (1 Opening)
What We're Looking For:- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry
- Experience or interest in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- DEA Waiver required
- Passion for providing exceptional inpatient behavioral health care
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to work alongside clinicians, nurses, and the multidisciplinary treatment team
Key Responsibilities:- Provide psychiatric care on a 24-bed adolescent inpatient unit.
- Participate in treatment team meetings and complete clinical documentation.
- Collaborate closely with clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
Position Highlights:- Full-time, 40-hour work week
- Average caseload of 12 patients per day
- Call responsibilities with additional call pay
- Competitive negotiable compensation
- Sign-on bonus
- Productivity bonus
- Relocation assistance
- Student loan repayment assistance
- Comprehensive Acadia benefits package
- Interview process includes an initial virtual interview followed by an onsite visit
If you're looking to make a meaningful impact in the lives of children and adolescents while working with an experienced behavioral health team, we'd love to hear from you.
ResponsibilitiesSummary:- Responsible for providing clinical services to patients at the facility within medical protocols defined by federal and state regulations, as well as by corporate, facility policy or procedures.
- Review medical information on patients to ensure medical stability and to offer medical recommendations.
- Ensure the physical health and care of patients, working constructively and collaboratively with other healthcare professionals is held to the highest standards.
- Review and complete medical information for individual care plans.
- Direct services and information in a timely manner, maintaining appropriate confidential documentation, compliance and billing in accordance with the policy and procedures.
QualificationsQualifications:- Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required.
- One or more years' experience as a staff physician with the population served by the facility preferred.
Licenses/Certifications- Current license to practice medicine, by the state in which the facility(s) operates.
- Board certification or certificate of admissibility for board certification in a behavioral health specialty.
- Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working.
- Additional specific DEA credentials may be required, per state and facility regulations or policy.
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