Psychiatrist (Part-Time)
This position includes a $1500.00 gross signing bonus at hire and $1500.00 gross at the completion of the probationary period. This announcement may be used to fill future similar vacancies.
Arlington County
Department of Human Services (DHS) is hiring part-time 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 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 psychopharmacologic treatment, psychotherapeutic support, and crisis intervention;
- Assuring comprehensive healthcare needs are identified and treated;
- Educating clients about their illness and providing health management information and techniques;
- Documenting clinical care in the electronic clinical record; and
- Providing backup physician coverage as needed to the Division outpatient services.
About DHS
Arlington County DHS is committed to delivering client services in an effective, equitable, respectful, and trauma-informed manner. Our staff is dedicated to ensuring our clients are approached, engaged, and cared for in ways that demonstrate competency, sensitivity, and awareness of factors that impact the client experience, including but not limited to: cultural identity, gender, racial, and ethnic diversity, religious/spiritual ascription, physical capability, cognitive and literacy levels, sexual orientation, and linguistic needs.
Selection Criteria
Minimum:
- M.D. from an accredited college or university;
- Four years’ experience in psychiatry or completing a residency in general psychiatry of four years;
- Must be licensed (or licensable) to practice medicine in the State of Virginia and be eligible to take examination of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Desirables: Preference may be given to candidates with experience in one or more of the following:
- Board Certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology;
- Experience with senior adult and/or intellectually and developmentally disabled populations;
- Completion of fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Completion of fellowship in Addiction or Forensic Psychiatry;
- Providing services in an outpatient community setting working intensively with patients with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders;
- Working on an interdisciplinary team; and/or
- Emergency services experience.
