Contra Costa County
Adult Psychiatrist
Provide psychiatric care in regional behavioral health clinics, conducting assessments and follow-up visits, making diagnoses, creating treatment plans, and prescribing medications. Serve as physician member of a multi-disciplinary team, coordinating with consulting medical specialists and conferring with patients' relatives and loved ones. Maintain electronic records according to BHS and regulatory standards while working with a diverse patient group with severe mental illness in an integrated, team-based model.
Key Responsibilities
- • Conducting psychiatric assessments (90 minutes) and follow-up visits (30 minutes)
- • Making diagnoses and developing comprehensive case histories
- • Creating treatment plans and prescribing medications
- • Coordinating with consulting medical specialists
- • Acting as physician member of a multi-disciplinary team
- • Conferring with the relatives and loved ones of patients
- • Maintaining electronic records according to the standards of BHS and other regulatory agencies
Schedule
- • Part-time to full-time
Required
- • Board-eligible/certified Adult Psychiatrist
- • Board Certification or completion of an accredited psychiatric residency program
- • License to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of California
- • Current developments, trends and research in the field of psychiatry, medicine and addiction
- • Community mental health practice and program options
- • Psychopharmacology, including laws regarding informed consent, dosage ranges, drug incompatibilities and side effects
- • General medicine and its relationship to psychiatry
- • Substance use disorders and their relationship to psychiatry
- • Psychiatric principles and practices
- • Treatment approaches and differential diagnosis of the mentally ill
- • HIPAA regulations
- • Medical ethics as they relate to patient care
- • Diagnose and treat patients.
- • Develop and monitor appropriate treatment plans.
- • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other staff, patients and patient families.
- • Learn and apply laws and regulations governing California health service providers.
- • Maintain medical records adhering to the stands of BHS and regulatory agencies.
Benefits & Perks
- • vacation
- • sick leave
- • County-funded malpractice insurance
- • retirement plan
- • health benefits
- • reimbursement of professional expenses
The Position
Contra Costa County Behavioral Health Services seeks a board-eligible/certified Adult Psychiatrist to serve in one of our regional behavioral health clinics – San Pablo, Concord, and Antioch. The position is part-time to full-time.
Annual Salary: $270,919.56 - $307,863.12
Employee salary or Independent Contractor rate of $184.80 per hour
We offer the choice of two compensation pathways. The first is as a County Employee. This pathway offers a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes vacation, sick leave, County-funded malpractice insurance, retirement plan, health benefits and reimbursement of professional expenses. The second compensation pathway is an Independent Contractor. This includes an hourly rate (see above) and County-funded malpractice insurance; it does not include the other benefits outlined above.
Contra Costa County’s BHS offers an opportunity to work with a diverse patient group with severe mental illness and participate in a team model. We value cultural humility and practice in an integrated manner with our medical provider colleagues and our other clinical staff, including those in substance use, housing and case management.
Duties Of The Position Include
Applications are now being accepted. This is a continuous recruitment and is open until filled.
Please send CV and cover letter to Stephen Field, DO at Stephen.Field@cchealth.org
Contra Costa County is committed to providing equal access and opportunity to qualified individuals with disabilities in its employment practices. If you believe you may anticipate needing reasonable accommodation, please visit our job seeker resources page at: Special Testing Accommodations | Contra Costa County, CA Official Website [contracosta.ca.gov].
To find more information on Benefits offered by Contra Costa County, please go to https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/1343/Employee-Benefits
Contra Costa County Behavioral Health Services seeks a board-eligible/certified Adult Psychiatrist to serve in one of our regional behavioral health clinics – San Pablo, Concord, and Antioch. The position is part-time to full-time.
Annual Salary: $270,919.56 - $307,863.12
Employee salary or Independent Contractor rate of $184.80 per hour
We offer the choice of two compensation pathways. The first is as a County Employee. This pathway offers a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes vacation, sick leave, County-funded malpractice insurance, retirement plan, health benefits and reimbursement of professional expenses. The second compensation pathway is an Independent Contractor. This includes an hourly rate (see above) and County-funded malpractice insurance; it does not include the other benefits outlined above.
Contra Costa County’s BHS offers an opportunity to work with a diverse patient group with severe mental illness and participate in a team model. We value cultural humility and practice in an integrated manner with our medical provider colleagues and our other clinical staff, including those in substance use, housing and case management.
Duties Of The Position Include
- Conducting psychiatric assessments (90 minutes) and follow-up visits (30 minutes)
- Making diagnoses and developing comprehensive case histories
- Creating treatment plans and prescribing medications
- Coordinating with consulting medical specialists
- Acting as physician member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Conferring with the relatives and loved ones of patients
- Maintaining electronic records according to the standards of BHS and other regulatory agencies
- Board Certification or completion of an accredited psychiatric residency program
- License to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of California
- Current developments, trends and research in the field of psychiatry, medicine and addiction
- Community mental health practice and program options
- Psychopharmacology, including laws regarding informed consent, dosage ranges, drug incompatibilities and side effects
- General medicine and its relationship to psychiatry
- Substance use disorders and their relationship to psychiatry
- Psychiatric principles and practices
- Treatment approaches and differential diagnosis of the mentally ill
- HIPAA regulations
- Medical ethics as they relate to patient care
- Diagnose and treat patients.
- Develop and monitor appropriate treatment plans.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other staff, patients and patient families.
- Learn and apply laws and regulations governing California health service providers.
- Maintain medical records adhering to the stands of BHS and regulatory agencies.
Applications are now being accepted. This is a continuous recruitment and is open until filled.
Please send CV and cover letter to Stephen Field, DO at Stephen.Field@cchealth.org
Contra Costa County is committed to providing equal access and opportunity to qualified individuals with disabilities in its employment practices. If you believe you may anticipate needing reasonable accommodation, please visit our job seeker resources page at: Special Testing Accommodations | Contra Costa County, CA Official Website [contracosta.ca.gov].
To find more information on Benefits offered by Contra Costa County, please go to https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/1343/Employee-Benefits
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