What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychiatrist position at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers?
- Provides primary mental health care services to patients across the lifespan, emphasizing mental health promotion, disease prevention, and the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic mental health conditions.
- Works autonomously to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients, as well as in collaboration with the patient care team to provide holistic health care.
- Obtains health histories and performs basic neurological physical exams if necessary. Diagnosis and, in partnership with the patient, manages acute and chronic mental health conditions.
- Provides comprehensive primary mental health care, including the prescribing of psychoactive medications used to treat mental illness and emotional disorders, through evidence-based practice modalities.
- Facilitate admitting patients to hospitals, and other higher levels of care as needed.
- Document treatment reviews on each active client as dictated by DHS 35.
- Consult with Behavioral Health team members on cases as needed.
- Serves as a consultation resource on mental health care to patients and families as well as the clinic and the community at large.
- Orders, conducts and interprets diagnostic studies and laboratory tests within the scope of practice of psychiatric/mental health.
- Attend weekly/monthly staffing meetings where case reviews, psychiatric consultations, and medical reviews take place.
- Prepares and maintains behavioral health patient reports and records.
- Participates in the training of nurse practitioners, medical students, and medical residents.
- Serve as the collaborating physician for the BH midlevel providers, when/if indicated.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Licensed as a physician in the State of Wisconsin and holds a valid DEA.
- Completion of Psychiatry Residency from an accredited Psychiatry Program.
- Board certification or eligibility for Board Certification in Psychiatry.
- Working knowledge of social and cultural factors associated with the community’s use of social and health care services.
- Ability to understand patient attitudes and needs, develop and orient program goals and concepts accordingly, and to work effectively toward their accomplishment with all staff members.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, officials, the public, patients, other private and public organizational representatives, health care personnel and community groups and organizations.
- Ability to work under pressure, maintain personal composure, evaluate situations, and act/react appropriately, and use tact in dealing with visitors, patients, and difficult situations.
- Ability to identify and maintain confidential material.
- Ability to interpret and conform program operations to applicable laws, rules, regulations, and funding source requirements and according to acceptable standards.
- Spanish speaking preferred.
Assistant Professor - Direct Patient Care Child Psychiatrist
Medical College of Wisconsin -
Milwaukee, WI
