Responsibilities:

• Perform psychiatric evaluations and assessments for patients to ascertain their diagnoses and establish treatment plans
• Ensure patients have a thorough understanding of medication options including education/review of side effects and treatment options so patients may give informed consent
• Provide individual psychotherapy
• Provide crisis intervention and/or counseling to diffuse conflicts among patients
• Collaborate with primary care providers to focus on psychiatric and substance abuse issues
• Coordinate patients? psychiatric care with medical clinic and shelter staff, as well as outside providers
• Manage emergency responses, including a team to minimize patient's danger to self and others, direct discussion with EMS/FDNY regarding patient's condition, referral to psychiatric or medical emergency departments and follow-up while patient is in the emergency department or upon release
• Participate in case-conference and case management activities
• Observe, implement, and promote the federal regulations as defined by HIPAA and the organization?s Policies and Procedures

Requirements:

• Board eligible or certified by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• Current New York State license
• DEA registration required