Job Description: The Psychiatrist is a primary provider of behavioral health care services at WWFHC performing a full range of psychiatrist assignments in a full-functioning capacity. The Psychiatrist works with the behavioral health and primary care providers under established protocols and the approved clinical policies of WWFHC to provide quality integrated comprehensive health care to patients.
ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTION AND DUTIES
1. Participates in the diagnosis and treatment of newly admitted, convalescent, and chronic patients.
2. Completes physical, mental, and neurological examinations of assigned patients.
3. Reviews medical information submitted to obtain social security disability benefits and provides expert opinion on acceptability or rejection of claims.
4. Treats medical, surgical, psychiatric, and neurological problems of patients in the facility.
5. Consults with patients, their families, other medical professionals, attorneys, teachers, and other interested persons to interpret clinical findings.
6. Conducts group and family therapy sessions.
7. Prepares diagnostic reports for judges, administrative law examiners, federal government officials, school officials, physicians, and other interested parties.
8. Provides expert witness testimony in courts of law and administrative hearings regarding the status of patients or social security disability income claimants.
9. Directs and instructs nurses, other professional support staff, attendants, and residents in the care and treatment of patients.
10. Provides instruction and guidance to social security disability income examiners in the review of medical and psychological disability claims.
11. Prescribes medications for the treatment of physical and psychological disorders.
12. Attends and participates in general and teaching staff conferences.
13. Receives advanced training in the field of psychiatry or neurology.
14. Researches cognitive disorders to identify treatment methods.
15. Delivers speeches to lay and professional groups concerning mental hygiene, child guidance, and related topics.
16. Oversees the work of professional staff by making and reviewing work assignments, establishing priorities, coordinating activities, and resolving related work problems.
17. Performs related work as assigned.
18. Performs on a regular basis, professional psychiatric assignments that are identified by the agency as highly complex in nature.
EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE
- Possession of a medical degree from an accredited school of medicine
- Board Eligible/Certified in a primary care specialty from an accredited school of medicine
- Completion of three years of successful training in a psychiatric residency-training program which yields a certificate of completion.
- Possession of a unrestricted license to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine in Michigan.
- Possession of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology “general requirements” for certification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- Must be currently holding, or eligible for, admitting privileges and member in good standing at community and/or tertiary hospitals.