Job Summary
Job Description
Psychiatrist needed for Correctional Facility in Rusk, TX
Inpatient
ASAP – ongoing
Mon - Fri w/ 8hr. shifts or the provider can work 4 days a week 10hrs.
No Call
Will complete evaluations in D&E (Diagnostic and Evaluation) – up to 5 working days to stabilize and determine if patients need admission to a treatment track
Will also see patients who have already been admitted - treat with psychotropic medications, discharge back to assigned units when stable
Psychiatrists will assist with involuntary admission hearings, compelled medication hearings and evaluations/documentation for civil commitments to free world state psychiatric hospitals (inmates leaving the prison system who require additional psych treatment) – may be required to testify in commitment hearings occasionally – currently doing by Zoom/phone.
EMR - Pearl
BC Psychiatry, TX license, BLS, DEA, and COVID Vaccine required