Location
Williamsburg, VA
Start Date
ASAP
Type
Multiple Shifts Available
Job ID
28365372JD
Shift
Assignment:
· Available to start October 10, 2024 (pending credentialing)
· Initial Appointment for 3-month (90 day) consecutive assignment, PREFERRED , with option to extend 3 -6-month assignment , if the position remains unfilled
· Full-time, 40 hours a week with assigned office hours of Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm with 1 hour lunch break, no alternative schedules accepted
· NOT approved for overtime
· No weekends, no holidays, no on-call duty
· Ability to provide cross coverage, to include forensic populations, as required
· Once a month, participation in Lunch Coverage Call (12:00 PM – 1:00 PM)
Qualifications:
· 3+ more years as a Physician/Practitioner
· Strong experience working with patients having Serious Mental Illness (SMI)
· Psychiatric Crisis Management and Forensic experience, a plus
· Experience working with adult admissions or geriatric admissions and acute and chronic health management of adult and geriatric populations.
· Comfortable working on admissions work up and potential rapid turnover
· Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary treatment team
· BLS Healthcare Provider certification is required
Position Details:
· Facility Hospitalizations: Acute, Adult, Inpatient wards (male & female)
· Facility Demographics: Forensic, NGRI, Civil, Jail Transfer, and Geriatric populations
· Facility Stay: Short and Long-term length of stay
o Caseload varies by ward and assignment (40-45)
· Psychiatry coverage is provided
· Full complement of interdisciplinary team members
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
· Responsible for patient care that includes examination, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of medical illnesses for adult and geriatric psychiatric inpatient population.
· Serves as medical consultant to the attending psychiatrist/practitioner.
· Completes admission medical assessments (including history and physical examinations, mental status examination) and entering admission orders.
· Orders diagnostic/therapeutic tests and procedures.
· Monitors patients' progress, including laboratory values and special procedures with appropriate follow-up or referrals as needed.
· Consults with authorized representatives/legal guardians on patient medical status.
· Collaborates with attending psychiatric practitioner if needed providing DSM-5 Diagnoses that are valid, complete, and supported by timely and appropriate assessment.
· Provides coverage to the medical clinic, the admission suit to ensure the admission process is completed.
· Prescribes medications at the lowest effective dose in accordance with rational clinical practices. Assesses and address medication side-effects and report adverse drug reactions.
· Ensures timely and quality documentation (admissions, follow-up and annual, etc.) in patient records in accordance with policies, procedures, regulatory standards, and guidelines.