Jackson Health System
The Attending Psychiatrist provides behavioral health management for patients in a clinical setting, including direct medical diagnosis, consultation, and health care services across emergency departments, outpatient, and inpatient units. The role involves psychiatric evaluations, involuntary hospitalizations, and collaboration with clinical teams.
Key Responsibilities
- • Maintains effective lines of communications with the medical staff, nursing, social work, management, and correctional staff and coordinates development, implementation and evaluation of standards of patient care.
- • Performs psychiatric evaluations for patients of varying behavioral health levels throughout the behavioral health hospital.
- • Evaluations will assess clinical needs and continued need for behavioral health level of care as delineated by Protocol, Policy and Procedure. Initiates involuntary hospitalizations via Professional Certificate, and B32 petitions and March man Act Petitions.
- • Performs behavioral health assessments. Assesses, consults and treats medical co-morbidities in conjunction with Medical Provider Team. Serves as first responder with BLS skill to any medical emergency in the Behavioral Health units.
- • Collaborates other members of the clinical team on continuing care and disposition. Leads the Interdisciplinary Treatment Team sessions. Participates in the on-call coverage by rotation. Attends all mandatory organizational meetings.
- • Supervises mid-level providers, residents, interns, medical students and other trainees in provision of above tasks.
- • Provides inter-departmental consultations. Documents clinical and non-clinical contacts in the Electronic Health Record. Enters all orders in the Electronic Health Record.
- • Demonstrates behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Expertise). Performs all other related job duties as assigned.
Required
- • Generally requires 3 to 5 years of related experience.
- • Doctorate degree in Medicine is required.
- • Valid Florida Medical License.
- • Active DEA and board certification (Psychiatry) is required.
- • American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers is required upon hire with at least 6 months validity and maintenance at JHS for the duration of employment.
Preferred
- • Other specialty certifications related to specialty are a plus.
Shift Details: Variable days/shifts as needed (per diem)
Why Jackson
Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital (JBHH) is a three-story, 180,000-square-foot facility committed to the highest quality, treatment, and service. Opened in 1999, JBHH consolidates evaluation, clinical treatment, teaching and research, to offer a full continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and elderly, including crisis stabilization, inpatient hospitalization, and outpatient programs. In association with the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, JBHH offers specialized treatment for numerous conditions including depression and mood disorders, schizophrenia, suicidal ideation or behavior, anxiety and panic disorders, drug and alcohol abuse and Alzheimer's disease. JBHH also specializes in criminal justice mental health services.
Summary
The role of Attending Psychiatrist is to provide the behavioral health management as assigned to patients in a clinical setting. Provides and maintains intensive direct medical diagnosis, consultation, and health care services throughout all JHS Emergency Departments, outpatients and/or inpatients units as needed.
Responsibilities
- Maintains effective lines of communications with the medical staff, nursing, social work, management, and correctional staff and coordinates development, implementation and evaluation of standards of patient care.
- Performs psychiatric evaluations for patients of varying behavioral health levels throughout the behavioral health hospital.
- Evaluations will assess clinical needs and continued need for behavioral health level of care as delineated by Protocol, Policy and Procedure. Initiates involuntary hospitalizations via Professional Certificate, and B32 petitions and March man Act Petitions.
- Performs behavioral health assessments. Assesses, consults and treats medical co-morbidities in conjunction with Medical Provider Team. Serves as first responder with BLS skill to any medical emergency in the Behavioral Health units.
- Collaborates other members of the clinical team on continuing care and disposition. Leads the Interdisciplinary Treatment Team sessions. Participates in the on-call coverage by rotation. Attends all mandatory organizational meetings.
- Supervises mid-level providers, residents, interns, medical students and other trainees in provision of above tasks.
- Provides inter-departmental consultations. Documents clinical and non-clinical contacts in the Electronic Health Record. Enters all orders in the Electronic Health Record.
- Demonstrates behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Expertise). Performs all other related job duties as assigned.
Generally requires 3 to 5 years of related experience.
Education
Doctorate degree in Medicine is required.
Credentials
- Valid Florida Medical License.
- Active DEA and board certification (Psychiatry) is required. Other specialty certifications related to specialty are a plus.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers is required upon hire with at least 6 months validity and maintenance at JHS for the duration of employment.
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