Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (Inpatient)

Quick Facts

• Role: Full-Time Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

• Setting: Ohio Hospital for Psychiatry (acute inpatient psychiatric care)

• Compensation: $320,000 - $350,000 per year (depending on experience)

Description

Provide inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents, including diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses using psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, hospitalization, and/or medication. Review patient information to ensure medical stability, evaluate mental/emotional/behavioral disorders, and recommend and direct appropriate care. Maintain confidential documentation and complete required care plan materials in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical services to patients at the facility

• Practice within medical protocols defined by federal and state regulations and by facility policies/procedures

• Review medical information to ensure medical stability and make medical recommendations

• Evaluate patients for mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders

• Treat or direct treatment using psychotherapeutic methods and medications

• Review and complete medical information for individual care plans and documents/services in a timely manner

• Maintain confidential documentation, ensuring compliance and billing per policy and procedures

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required

• Board Certified in Psychiatry required

• Board Certified in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry required

• Licensed in the state where the facility operates

• Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions, per state regulation

• 1+ years post-graduate practice preferred