Physician / Psychiatry / Connecticut / Permanent / Southwest Connecticut - Richmond - International Medical Placement, Ltd.

Description

Seeking a Director of Interventional Psychiatry

• Provide direct clinical care and assessment services for adults and adolescents with mental illness and addiction.
• These services include psychiatric assessment, psychopharmacology, individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, psychoeducation, clinical supervision, case consultation and specialty services (e.

g., ECT).

• The psychiatrist will interface with an inter disciplinary team to ensure patient centered, evidence based, high quality psychiatric services throughout the continuum of care at Hospital.
• This continuum includes inpatient, transitional, and outpatient levels of care.
• Provide psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care for adults, including psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, collaborative treatment planning, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy.
• Participate in the pre assessment process for prospective patients and respond promptly to admissions and/or inpatient services requests for input and consultation.
• Lead the inter disciplinary treatment team meetings to review clinical progress, including the review of results from psychological assessments, feedback and observations from residential counselors and group therapists, and the input of other staff (e.

g., chaplain), to determine the need for additional assessment or specialized interventions (e.g., OCD treatment).

• Attend administrative meetings and team huddles to ensure assessments of patients includes appropriate safety monitoring and follow up, as well as appropriate care.
• Assist the team in identifying transference/countertransference dynamics and use this understanding to support reflective functioning that furthers the patient?s treatment (i.

e., responsiveness based on deliberation rather than reactivity).

• Provide psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care for adults, including psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, collaborative treatment planning, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy.
• Required: BC/BE Psychiatry, Experience in Interventional Psychiatry, including ECT, ketamine and/or TMS, Licensed in the state of Connecticut, Excellent leadership skills