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About the Role

To evaluate and treat psychiatric patients in a hospital or clinic setting, supervise the multidisciplinary team treatment of patients, provide psychiatric consultations to medical and surgical patients, and conduct Emergency Room evaluations, treatment, and referrals.

Responsibilities

• Diagnostic evaluations of assigned patients.
• Validation of admission history and physical examination by countersignature.
• Requisition of appropriate consultations, and overall medical management of assigned inpatients.
• Supervision of multidisciplinary treatment planning and treatment efforts.
• Timely submission of complete orders for medication, level of observation, requisitions for laboratory investigations, diet, passes, discharges, and other orders.
• Timely submission of progress notes (daily for the first 5 days, then 3x/week).
• Timely renewal of orders.
• Provision of individual psychotherapy using appropriate techniques, frequency, and duration.
• Review all discharge referrals with the Social Worker to ensure appropriateness of outpatient treatment referrals.
• Complete and timely documentation of care according to departmental guidelines.
• Psychiatric evaluation, recommendations for psychiatric treatment or referral, and follow-up of assigned medical and surgical patients.
• Provision of supervision of on-call psychiatrists in rotation.
• Emergency Room evaluation, treatment, and disposition in rotation.
• Committee work as assigned by the Director.

Requirements

• Must have admitting privileges granted by the Medical Board of St. Barnabas, and maintain these privileges.

Skills

• Knowledge of DSM IV/5
• Knowledge of a variety of theoretical models for the treatment of patients with psychiatric illness and the ability to apply them.
• Expertise in the differential diagnosis, somatic and psychological treatment of psychiatric disorders.
• Good clinical judgment, personal integrity, professional responsibility, tact.
• Ability to establish and maintain rapport with emotionally disturbed patients.
• Knowledge of OMH/Joint Commission regulations and their application to psychiatry departments.
• Knowledge of charting requirements.
• Knowledge of supervisory approaches and the ability to critique and supervise residents and interns.
• Ability to integrate the efforts of a variety of disciplines, including psychiatry social work, nursing, psychology, and activities therapy.

Location

• Bronx, New York

Work Type

• Onsite

Education Level

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) from an ACGME approved medical school; completion of approved internship and residency in Psychiatry, meeting the educational pre-requisites for certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
• Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from an AOA approved medical school; completion of approved internship and residency in Psychiatry, meeting the educational pre-requisites for certification by the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology & Psychiatry.
• N.Y. State License to practice Medicine and Surgery
• Drug Enforcement Agency License
• Board Certification in Psychiatry & Neurology, or Board Eligible

About the Company

• St. Barnabas Hospital