Board Certified /Board Eligible Psychiatry
Updated 3/03/26
$150.00
– $160.00
hourly
36083, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States
Physician
Psychiatry-Geriatrics
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Job at a glance
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Full-Time
Work Environment
Inpatient
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job description
Job description
Job description
•Contractor's physician(s) shall be responsible for: Inpatient Care: All psychiatrists will be required to work in collaboration with Mental Health staff who are part-time or full time salaried by the VA for inpatient care duties including but not limited to:
•Operating and collaborating physician's patients
•Seeing 1C/1D Psychiatry Service - Ward Patients
• Admitting
•Diagnosis of patients
•Developing Treatment Plans
•Managing, including the performance of timely treatment
•Discharge/Transfer
•Including all needed medical record documentation
•Outpatient Care
•Seeing all new patient referrals with accompanying medical records
• Seeing severely mental ill patients
• Evaluation disposition E-consult
• Post-discharged follow up
• Patients must be seen by provider in 30 days Clinic and Residential Care: Contractor's physician(s) shall provide clinical psychiatry services. Clinical duties include direct patient care.
•Contractor's physician (s)shall operate the clinic, examine patients, and interpret reports as required by the VA.
• Contractor's physician(s) shall be present and on time for any scheduled clinics as documented by physical presence in the clinic.
• The contractor's employees will be required to work with VA staff. Should clinic hours need to be changed, VA will provide the contractor a thirty-day advanced notice of the change. Approximate case load is as follows:
• 6 to 6.5 patient bookable hours per day.
• 6 patients for an hour each or roughly 12 patients for one half-hour each; or any combination of one-hour and one-half hour appointment per day totaling 6 to 6.5 bookable patient hours per day.
Licensure Requirements
•Contractor's physician(s) shall be responsible for: Inpatient Care: All psychiatrists will be required to work in collaboration with Mental Health staff who are part-time or full time salaried by the VA for inpatient care duties including but not limited to:
•Operating and collaborating physician's patients
•Seeing 1C/1D Psychiatry Service - Ward Patients
• Admitting
•Diagnosis of patients
•Developing Treatment Plans
•Managing, including the performance of timely treatment
•Discharge/Transfer
•Including all needed medical record documentation
•Outpatient Care
•Seeing all new patient referrals with accompanying medical records
• Seeing severely mental ill patients
• Evaluation disposition E-consult
• Post-discharged follow up
• Patients must be seen by provider in 30 days Clinic and Residential Care: Contractor's physician(s) shall provide clinical psychiatry services. Clinical duties include direct patient care.
•Contractor's physician (s)shall operate the clinic, examine patients, and interpret reports as required by the VA.
• Contractor's physician(s) shall be present and on time for any scheduled clinics as documented by physical presence in the clinic.
• The contractor's employees will be required to work with VA staff. Should clinic hours need to be changed, VA will provide the contractor a thirty-day advanced notice of the change. Approximate case load is as follows:
• 6 to 6.5 patient bookable hours per day.
• 6 patients for an hour each or roughly 12 patients for one half-hour each; or any combination of one-hour and one-half hour appointment per day totaling 6 to 6.5 bookable patient hours per day.
Licensure Requirements
- Physician(s) shall be Board Certified /Board Eligible by the American Board of Psychiatry
- Active BLS/ACLS
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