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Physician - Psychiatrist (BHIP)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.
What You'll Do
- →Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm (with required on-call rotation, which includes nights, weekends and holidays) Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more.
- →EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive.
- →VHA Physician Total Rewards.
- →Duties: Psychiatrists must perform clinical, teaching and administrative duties which may include, but are not limited to, the following: Application of accepted protocols for assessment of the individual presenting with altered mental status.
- →Assessment may include gathering of verbal and documented history, mental status exam, and any necessary medical, laboratory and imaging evaluations.
- →Diagnostic description or formulation to guide appropriate acute and secondary treatment interventions.
- →Provision of psychiatric care according to privileges.
- →Psychiatrists should be able to perform and teach all of the services required in the practice of psychiatry to psychiatry residents.
- →Educational experiences are also provided to health care personnel seeking training in mental health services (e.g. medical students, psychology interns, social work interns, physician assistants, nursing students and non-psychiatry medical residents).
- →Staff Psychiatrists must assist with meeting all necessary performance measures, completing all necessary training in a timely manner and keeping up with medical and administrative documentation as required.
- →Staff Psychiatrists participate in departmental staff meetings, various hospital committees, departmental and hospital in-service programs, and education programs of the department and the hospital.
- →They are also involved in continuous quality improvement through the peer review process.
- →Staff Psychiatrists are responsible for all aspects of psychiatric care and are responsible for providing and assisting residents and/or nurse practitioners in the process of evaluation and treatment of the psychiatric patient.
- →Staff Psychiatrists are responsible for providing appropriate and timely documentation and also cosign resident notes, indicating supervision and concurrence with each note.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine.
Personality Fit
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