Psychiatrist
- Full-Time
- College Park, MD
- University Of Maryland
- Posted 1 year ago – Accepting applications
Job Description
Posting Details Position Number: 100375
Functional
Category Status: 33-Exempt Regular
Applicant Search Category: Staff
University Authorized FTE: 1.000
Unit: VPSA-UHC-Mental Health Sum
Campus/College Information: Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.
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Position Summary/Purpose of Position: The University of Maryland (UMD), University Health Center (UHC) seeks a full time psychiatrist to provide direct care to a diverse student patient population. The purpose is to conduct psychiatric evaluations and to provide intake assessments, ongoing medication management, therapy, as well as consultative work with other departments needed. The psychiatrist will be expected to meet assigned productivity standards as defined and as directed by the Behavioral Health Director.
The psychiatrist will also work with other UHC departments, including General Medicine (primary care, women’s health, transgender care, etc.) This is to collaborate on shared patients, consult on mutual patients, and offer urgent evaluations from these departments.
This is a full time exempt position. The psychiatrist will be expected to carry a full patient census during their clinical schedule. Typically the service is busy during the academic year and slows down over the summer and during winter and spring breaks.
The psychiatrist will be expected to provide direct patient care that includes intakes, medication management follow up, triage, urgent triage, etc. At times, this care may extend beyond regular duty hours. Currently, a full-time position would entail working from 8:30-5:00, M-F. Call from home is also equitably shared among psychiatric providers (six providers if this position is included). Each provider takes one week (seven days) call from home which currently would involve the responsibility once every six weeks.
New visits are currently scheduled for one hour, and follow up visits for 30 minutes; visit times are subject to change depending on need. Daily administrative time (for note writing, etc.) currently includes 1.5 hours of those eight working hours (not including a 30 minute lunch).
Minimum Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):
Preferences:
Additional Certifications:
Additional Information:
Job Risks Occupational Related Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure , Respiratory Protection
Physical Demands Typical physical demands of an office setting, potential exposure to communicable diseases by virtue of working in a health care environment.
Posting Date: 07/01/2022
Closing Date:
Open Until Filled Yes
Best Consideration Date 07/19/2022
Diversity Statement: The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
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Functional
Category Status: 33-Exempt Regular
Applicant Search Category: Staff
University Authorized FTE: 1.000
Unit: VPSA-UHC-Mental Health Sum
Campus/College Information: Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.
Background Checks
Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify you from employment.
Vaccine Protocol
The University of Maryland has made the safety of our students, faculty and staff, and our surrounding communities a top priority. As part of that commitment, the University System of Maryland (USM) recently announced that students, faculty, and staff on USM campuses this fall, including UMD, are required to be vaccinated against COVID. As a prospective and/or a new employee at UMD, you will be required to comply with the University’s vaccination protocol. Proof of full vaccination will be required before the start of employment in order to work at any University of Maryland location. Prospective or new employees may seek a medical or religious exemption to the vaccination requirement at return.umd.edu and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Failure to provide proof of vaccination or to obtain approval for a medical or religious exemption will result in the offer of employment being rescinded.
Position Summary/Purpose of Position: The University of Maryland (UMD), University Health Center (UHC) seeks a full time psychiatrist to provide direct care to a diverse student patient population. The purpose is to conduct psychiatric evaluations and to provide intake assessments, ongoing medication management, therapy, as well as consultative work with other departments needed. The psychiatrist will be expected to meet assigned productivity standards as defined and as directed by the Behavioral Health Director.
The psychiatrist will also work with other UHC departments, including General Medicine (primary care, women’s health, transgender care, etc.) This is to collaborate on shared patients, consult on mutual patients, and offer urgent evaluations from these departments.
This is a full time exempt position. The psychiatrist will be expected to carry a full patient census during their clinical schedule. Typically the service is busy during the academic year and slows down over the summer and during winter and spring breaks.
The psychiatrist will be expected to provide direct patient care that includes intakes, medication management follow up, triage, urgent triage, etc. At times, this care may extend beyond regular duty hours. Currently, a full-time position would entail working from 8:30-5:00, M-F. Call from home is also equitably shared among psychiatric providers (six providers if this position is included). Each provider takes one week (seven days) call from home which currently would involve the responsibility once every six weeks.
New visits are currently scheduled for one hour, and follow up visits for 30 minutes; visit times are subject to change depending on need. Daily administrative time (for note writing, etc.) currently includes 1.5 hours of those eight working hours (not including a 30 minute lunch).
Minimum Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):
- M.D./D.O. from accredited Medical School
- All residency and post-graduate training from accredited American programs.
- Presently Board Certified or Board Eligible. If Board eligible, should be prepared to certify within 1 year of hire.
- Licensed to practice psychiatry in the State of Maryland.
- 5 years experience as a psychiatrist preferred
- Experience working with college students in the area of mental health is preferred.
- Working with a college student population preferred.
- Commitment to actively engage in practice with diverse populations.
- Commitment to one’s own ongoing development of multicultural competence as a psychiatrist.
Preferences:
Additional Certifications:
Additional Information:
Job Risks Occupational Related Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure , Respiratory Protection
Physical Demands Typical physical demands of an office setting, potential exposure to communicable diseases by virtue of working in a health care environment.
Posting Date: 07/01/2022
Closing Date:
Open Until Filled Yes
Best Consideration Date 07/19/2022
Diversity Statement: The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.