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Supervisory Psychiatrist (SUD) - Recruitment/Relocation Incentive/EDRP Authorized
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
This vacancy will remain open until filled. The first cut-off date is 07/02/2026. Additional applications will be referred as needed. (open continuous announcement). A Recruitment/Relocation Incentive may be authorized for a Highly Qualified Individual.
What You'll Do
- →A full-time position is available for Medical Director of the Substance Use Disorders Team (Gold Team) in the VA North Texas Health Care System, Mental Health Service (VANTHCS MHS) in Dallas, Texas.
- →Core responsibilities include leading and coordinating the operations of a multidisciplinary outpatient mental health team with a focus on uninterrupted high-quality care to Veterans.
- →Incumbent monitors and ensures compliance with hospital and mental health policies, regulations, executive orders and management directives.
- →Incumbent will collaborate with other teams/team leaders to improve communication and to ensure ongoing continuity of care for Veterans.
- →VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
- →VHA Physician Total Rewards.
- →Duties include but are not limited to: In conjunction with the Clinical Directors of this Mental Health Team, the incumbent plans, organizes, and directs administrative, operational, patient and personnel activities for the team.
- →Duties include coordinating interdisciplinary staffing, work assignments, resource allocation and direct patient care.
- →Incumbent should be skilled in providing comprehensive psychiatric medical care (assessment, consultation, treatment) with a focus on providing care to Veterans with addictions and substance use disorders.
- →Incumbent must be skilled in general outpatient psychiatry and addiction psychiatry, including diagnostic evaluations, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy.
- →He/she should be competent in the management of individuals with a broad range of clinical problems, including but not limited to substance use disorders, mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and psychiatric disorders in the elderly Veteran population.
- →Incumbent is encouraged to be involved in medical student, psychiatry resident, and addiction psychiatry fellow education.
- →In addition to administrative supervision, he/she may provide clinical supervision and act as collaborating physician for health care professionals such as Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.
- →Veterans served by the Gold Team tend to have serious and severe crises, be dually diagnosed, and have numerous psychosocial deficits.
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
Job ID: 3718769a-4de3-4c02-a856-b55f8aa9244e
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