CBHC Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
CBHC Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
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Job Description
Overview
*Starting Salary: $255000*
The CBHC Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist provides teambased direct clinical services to children and adolescents and their families served by Advocates CBHC including evaluating medical and psychosocial conditions collaboratively developing and implementing treatment plans prescribing medication as appropriate and monitoring and evaluating treatment progress.
Advocates promotes a healthy worklife balance and offers many generous perks of employment and room for advancement. We are a strongknit community that values the ideas and contributions fromour staff.
Are you ready to make a difference
Minimum Education Required
Responsibilities
- Provide medical and psychiatric services and consultation to people served by Advocates CBHC.
- Provide collaborative leadership in diagnosis formulation treatment planning and risk management.
- Monitor efficacy and adverse effects of prescribed medications.
- Coordinate care with other medical specialists and institutions and communicate with family members and other agencies involved as needed.
- Provide consultation and teaching to other members of the multidisciplinary teams including students if assigned.
- Work with Medical Director and Clinical Program Director to develop and manage Integrated Treatment Teams and promote models of integrated care.
- Provide oncall responsibilities same day triage and consultation to persons served team members and other staff as appropriate and needed including through Urgent Care Adult Community Crisis Stabilization and Adult Mobile Crisis Intervention.
- Actively participate in the Quality Improvement process of the CBHC.
- Maintain all records in accordance with the policies and procedures of the CBHC and complete all required documentation in a timely manner.
- Maintain open collaborative and collegial relationships with internal and external team members.
- Attend trainings as assigned and maintain necessary certifications required by Advocates. Participate in training on the CBHCs identified evidencebased practices and provide treatment consistent with these practices.
- Follow agency and appropriate licensing policies regarding professional ethics and confidentiality.
- Attend and actively participate in supervision clinical rounds and medical staff meetings.
Qualifications
- MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
- Board certified in child psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (candidates may be accepted if board eligible if the candidate demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Medical Director comparable experience and competence).
- Current valid unrestricted license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Current valid and unrestricted DEA and MA Controlled Substance Registrations.
- Currently practicing a minimum of 20 hours per week defined as direct service supervision or clinical administration.
- Ability to maintain professional liability insurance coverage of a minimum of $1000000/$3000000.
- Satisfactory report from the National Practitioner Data Bank and absence of Medicare/Medicaid sanctions.
- Strongly prefer candidate who has demonstrated understanding of/competence in serving culturally diverse populations.
- Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- Ability to read and speak English. Bi/trilingual (English/Spanish/Portuguese) preferred.
- Must have valid drivers license and access to an operational and insured automobile.
- Ability to utilize electronic health records and telehealth technology efficiently and effectively in the provision and documentation of care.
- Commitment to Advocates values and mission.
At Advocates the health and safety of the people in our care our employees and the broader community is our top priority. Effective October 18 2021 Advocates will require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID19 (i.e. both doses of Pfizer or Moderna or a single dose of Johnson & Johnson.
Advocates is committed to cultivating a diverse and welcoming community where everyone feels respected and valued. Advocates fosters a culture of inclusion that celebrates and promotes diversity along multiple dimensions including race ethnicity sex gender identity gender expression sexual orientation partnered status age national origin socioeconomic status religion ability culture and experience.
Employment Type
Full-Time
