Part-Time Psychiatrist Adolescent Behavioral Health Details

Part-Time Psychiatrist Adolescent Behavioral Health

Newport Healthcare - Dallas, TX

Employment Type : Full-Time

About Us: Newport Healthcare is a series of evidence-based healing centers for adolescents and families struggling with mental health issues. With locations across the United States, Newport Healthcare offers a family-systems approach, providing gender-specific, individualized, and comprehensive holistic programs that encompass clinical therapy, academic support, and experiential practices. We treat individuals, adolescents and young adults, who are experiencing depression, anxiety, eating disorders, trauma, and substance abuse. Offerings include residential treatment, intensive outpatient programming, therapeutic day schools, and day treatment. Newport Healthcare nurtures the physical, psychological, social, educational, and spiritual needs of adolescents and their families, from a foundation of compassionate care, clinical expertise, and unconditional love. Our primary mission is to empower teens and restore families. Experts include medical directors, psychiatrists, therapists, registered dietitians, nurses, licensed social workers, teachers, and more.
Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.® Responsibilities:

The Psychiatrist provides initial evaluations of residents with mental or emotional problems. Offers counseling and psychotherapy to adolescent residents in distress.

Essential Duties:

• Function as an effective member of the mental health team.
• Oversee psychiatric care of all clients and carry a case load.
• Review medical concerns/history for potential resident for medical clearance at the request of Admissions.
• Ensure that psychiatric evaluations are performed on each client within 48 hours of admission.
• Attend to clients requiring psychiatric assistance while in treatment.
• Attend weekly Treatment Team Meetings.
• Liaise with staff Medical Director, Clinical Director and other necessary treatment team members.
• Assist Newport Academy Outreach Team forge relationships with hospitals.
• Work in collaboration with APRN.
• Document patient encounters through weekly progress notes and EMR.
• Coordinates psychology services with direct care and clinical staff as indicated.
• Assist with providing cross-coverage to Psychiatry team cases when needed.
• Assist with patient admissions including initial evaluations and initial assessment documentation.
• Provide collateral/liaison contact to patient families
• Assist with utilization reviews for clients.
• Maintain excellent communication with other members of the clinical team
• Complete discharge recommendation assessments as part of collaborative discharge summaries.
• Work in a collaborative environment including maintaining requirements of Physician Collaborative Agreements.
• Administrative duties including staff schedules.

Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Medicine (MD).
• Board Certified in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry.
• Licensed in the State for which you are applying.
• Experience with adolescent psychiatry preferred.

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

For more information on Equal Opportunity, please click here Equal Employment Opportunity Posters