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Physician (Psychiatrist) Floater - Outpatient and Inpatient
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 55 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
- →This position is authorized to provide the right candidate with a sign-on bonus (a percentage of salary per year, up to four years), and the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) to pay up to $200,000 in qualifying loans!!
- →In addition, salary can go above the maximum amount shown if candidate meets annual performance metrics.
- →Major Duties and Responsibilities: Addresses the unique characteristics and needs of the young adult (18-39), middle adult (40-64), older adult (65-80) and geriatric (80+) patients, taking into consideration cognitive deficits and emotional and behavioral reactions to stressful life events such as ill health, economic problems, and the loss of significant others.
- →Conducts comprehensive psychiatric assessments within a biopsychosocial model, including evidence-based psychopharmacology.
- →Routine collaboration will occur with PMHNPs, PA-Cs, and PharmDs for psycho pharmacology interventions.
- →Assesses need for and provides interventional psychiatry clinical services for very complex patient care needs, for example Repetitive Treatment Resistant Depression (rTMS), Esketamine (ESK) and Psychosis Intervention services (Severe Mental Illness).
- →Professional training is provided.
- →Utilizes and promotes approved standards of care, procedures, methods, techniques, safety precautions, and protocols in their application to treatment and management of acute and chronic mental illnesses for psychiatric outpatients.
- →Provides cross coverage for the Attending Psychiatrist in the acute inpatient psychiatry unit (9HIP) to include completion of all required medical record documentation and commitment paperwork promptly; and convening multidisciplinary treatment team.
- →Participates as a key member of the patient care team to formulate patient centered treatment plans and monitor patient progress within a recovery-oriented episode of care model.
- →Involvement with both, psychiatric and medical treatments.
- →Participates in the monthly on-call coverage roster during weekends, holidays, and after regular tour of duty hours (evenings and nights); on average, it will require coverage one weekend (day tour) and 3-5 nights a month.
- →Mental Health Consultation Liaison Team - Evaluating Veterans consulted to the team in the Emergency Room, Community Living Center, and Medical Floors.
- →In consultation with other physicians and physicians' assistants or nurse practitioners, assesses the medical condition of the patient in the context of his/her psychiatric condition.
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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