Psychiatrist (part-time)
Please note: This position includes a $2,500.00 gross signing bonus at hire and $2,500.00 gross bonus at the completion of the probationary period for full-time positions. A prorated bonus will be earned for part-time positions ($1,250.00 gross signing bonus at hire and $1,250.00 at the completion of the probationary period.)
Arlington County
Department of Human Services (DHS) is hiring Psychiatrists in the Behavioral Health Division (BHD). DHS provides a broad continuum of social services, behavioral healthcare, public health, and employment programs to approximately 60,000 customers per year in an integrated, collaborative approach. DHS has a recovery and best practice-oriented mission, and this Psychiatrist will have the opportunity to be a part of projects which are at the forefront of mental health service delivery, including health care integration and innovative access models.
BHD provides a range of services that promote recovery, independence, and community integration for adults with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders. These services include emergency mental health, discharge planning, medical services, case management, and linkage to other services which are provided directly by County staff or through contract, at the Sequoia Plaza offices, at community-based locations, in the County jail, in homeless shelters, and on the streets. This full-time Psychiatrist will provide emergency and community-based outpatient services in the Behavioral Healthcare Division (BHD).
Specific duties include:
- Performing diagnostic psychiatric evaluations;
- Ongoing psychiatric management, including psycho-pharmacologic treatment, psycho-therapeutic support, and crisis intervention;
- Assuring comprehensive healthcare needs are identified and treated;
- Providing team consultation and clinical oversight of nurse practitioners as well as participation in interdisciplinary treatment planning meetings;
- Educating clients about their illness and providing health management information
- Documenting clinical care in the electronic clinical record; and
- Providing backup physician coverage as needed to the Division outpatient services.
