Physician Specialist Option C (Option 18 – Psychiatry & Neurology)

Job description

Job Responsibilities

Serves as a staff psychiatrist serving patients living on an assigned inpatient pavilion.
Provides treatment to a caseload of patients on the assigned pavilion and on an assigned shift.
Provides clinical direction to staff involved in direct care.
Provides back-up coverage of other pavilions.
Serves as a member of the medical committees, pavilion and program meetings, case evaluation, audit and utilization review committee to provide psychiatric expertise in the areas of treatment, development, etc.
Signs certificates for involuntary patient admissions and testifies in court.
Attends and participates in all mandatory training.
Performs other duties as assigned or required which are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.