Medical Director (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)

Quick Facts

• Role: Medical Director (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Focus: Clinical leadership, psychiatric care, and quality oversight for children and adolescents

Description

You will lead the delivery of mental health services at an 80-bed behavioral health facility. The role includes defining clinical protocols, providing direct psychiatric care, supervising clinical and support staff, and ensuring compliance with medical and clinical policy. You will also manage budgets and billing/spending, mentor providers, and serve as a teaching resource for training and development.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality, efficiency, and management of services within the facility
• Define protocols and support medical/clinical decision-making
• Provide direct patient care and support other departments with physician-staff interactions
• Supervise professional clinical staff as well as administrative/support staff
• Act as a liaison between medical staff, facility/division/corporate staff, and organizational leadership
• Monitor staff adherence to established medical and clinical policy
• Provide back-up call coverage
• Teach and support training/development of personnel
• Conduct physical exams and obtain patient histories
• Request diagnostic testing and prescribe medications and treatments
• Manage behavioral/mental health treatment and maintain current medical records per regulations and policies
• Manage facility finances: budgets, billing, and spending
• Develop and implement organizational goals, objectives, strategies, and policies
• Develop, approve, implement, and update facility policies, protocols, and procedures

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required
• Board certified in Psychiatry required
• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training and prior leadership experience preferred
• Current, unrestricted medical license in the state of practice
• Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions