Psychiatry Director Physician
Location: North Shore, Virginia
Description: Northeast Healthcare Recruitment is hiring Psychiatry Director Physician right now, this job will be situated in Virginia. More complete informations about this job opportunity kindly see the descriptions. job in Massachusetts : Psychiatrist/Medical Director - Salem, Haverhill, Lawrence, and Lowell Description of services for Medical Director of Emergency Services Programs (ESP) Psychiatrist/Medical Director: This board-certified or board-eligible psychiatrist shall be responsible for clinical and medical oversight and quality of care across all ESP service components. This individual shall coordinate the functions of his/her ESP medical director role, the psychiatric care delivered by him/herself and/or other psychiatric clinicians during business hours, and the after-hours psychiatric consultation function fulfilled by him/herself and/or other psychiatric clinicians. Included in this function shall be the responsibility for supervising all psychiatrists and/or Psychiatric Nurse Mental Health Clinical Specialist performing psychiatric functions in any of the ESP service components. The Medical Director shall be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with medical providers and other stakeholders in the catchment area, including medical directors at local outpatient, diversionary, and inpatient services programs, hospital emergency department (ED) physicians, and primary care clinicians. This individual shall be available for clinical consultation to ESP staff members and community partners. Psychiatric consultation shall be provided in a variety of clinical and administrative areas, including consultation specific to the assessment, treatment, and disposition of individuals in the process of receiving ESP services as well as negotiating issues related to medical clearance and inpatient admissions.
- 4 ESP’s covering over 35 cities and towns in greater Merrimack Valley and North Shore areas.
- Locations in Salem, Haverhill, Lawrence, and Lowell.
- 3 Community Crisis Stabilization units (CCS), each 6 beds with 3-5 day LOS, voluntary, hospital diversion, daily prescribing rounds done usually by APN’s in collaboration with medical director. CCS’ in Salem, Lawrence and Lowell. (Haverhill is considered part of the North Essex contract which includes Salem).
- ESP must provide urgent access to psychopharm evaluations for MassHealth members within each service area.
- Medical Director is a ¾ time position and can be/should be combined with ¼ time outpatient position as staff psychiatrist.
- The role would involve a face to face presence at least one day per month at each of the 4 sites.
- Provide Urgent Psychopharm on a scheduled and on an as needed basis.
- Provide 13 weeks of on call psychiatrist coverage in a rotation.
- Attend regularly scheduled meetings with our key stakeholders in conjunction with the program directors.
- Provide clinical case conference consultation one time per week at one of the sites.
- Attend ESP Divisional staff meeting at least once per month.
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This job will be opened on: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:34:59 GMT
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