Psychiatrist

Quick Facts

• Role: Psychiatrist providing psychiatric services for children and adolescents

• Scope: Inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and tele-psychiatry

Description

Provide comprehensive psychiatric examinations, diagnoses, and treatment services for mental health conditions affecting children and adolescents, including inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and tele-psychiatry. Develop individualized treatment and rehabilitation plans using medication management, psychotherapy, and advanced therapeutic modalities. Perform biopsychosocial evaluations integrating clinical findings and diagnostic testing, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychiatric care across inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and tele-psychiatry settings

• Create individualized treatment and rehabilitation plans

• Conduct biopsychosocial evaluations using laboratory, radiology, EKG, and psychological testing

• Consult and support multidisciplinary healthcare teams

• Perform mental health assessments for fitness for duty, weapon handling, and deployments; serve on Medical Evaluation Boards

• Train and supervise residents, interns, medical students, and other trainees per ACGME standards

• Participate in quality assurance, risk management, and peer review committees

• Serve on committees to update mental health policy and establish service guidelines

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• MD/DO degree (U.S./Canada accredited or required foreign equivalency)

• Current, active, full, unrestricted physician license/registration

• At least 1 year of supervised clinical experience after medical degree (internship or first residency year)

• Completed accredited psychiatry residency training (at least 4 years)

• Successful completion and maintenance of credentialing and privileging

• Favorable suitability determination to work with children under 18 with periodic re-verification

• Drug testing designated position: pre-employment and random testing

• Required immunizations, including seasonal influenza vaccination

• BLS certification (AHA)

• Pre-employment physical examination and annual physical thereafter

• Valid regular or official U.S. passport

• TDY/business travel approximately 5%

Benefits

• Comprehensive U.S. federal benefits package for employees and families

• Competitive compensation and premium health benefits for civilian providers

• Generous three-tiered retirement system

• Completely free malpractice insurance under federal liability coverage

• Potential additional incentives for highly qualified candidates, plus eligible student loan repayment (where applicable) and military perks