Psychiatrist – CSU & Inpatient - Ventura, CA

### Job Responsibilities

- Provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and crisis stabilization services at Ventura County Medical Center (VCMC) and Hillmont Psychiatric Center in Ventura, California.
- Deliver psychiatric care across the Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU), Emergency Department, and main hospital through consultation services.
- Evaluate and treat patients experiencing acute psychiatric emergencies, including suicidal ideation, psychosis, severe mood disorders, agitation, and behavioral health crises.
- Conduct psychiatric risk assessments, including suicide risk, danger to others, and grave disability, to determine appropriate treatment and level of care.
- Provide emergency psychiatric consultation to emergency medicine physicians, hospitalists, and other medical specialists.
- Assess and manage psychiatric conditions in patients with co-occurring medical illnesses and complex behavioral health needs.
- Initiate, prescribe, monitor, and adjust psychiatric medications to support acute symptom management and psychiatric stabilization.
- Develop individualized, evidence-based treatment plans based on clinical presentation, psychiatric history, and patient needs.
- Evaluate patients for psychiatric hospitalization, continued crisis stabilization, or referral to appropriate outpatient and community behavioral health services.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including psychiatrists, emergency medicine physicians, nurses, social workers, case managers, and other healthcare professionals.
- Coordinate psychiatric admissions, transfers, discharge planning, and continuity of care with appropriate clinical teams.
- Provide psychiatric recommendations regarding treatment, medication management, and behavioral interventions to medical and nursing staff.
- Participate in clinical case discussions, interdisciplinary treatment planning, and psychiatric consultations.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive clinical documentation in accordance with hospital policies and applicable healthcare regulations.
- Follow established hospital protocols, patient safety procedures, and California mental health regulations, including applicable involuntary psychiatric evaluation and treatment requirements.
- Deliver compassionate, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and patient-centered psychiatric care to a diverse patient population.
- Support quality improvement initiatives and clinical best practices within emergency and hospital-based psychiatric services.
- Work collaboratively with hospital leadership and clinical teams to promote effective patient flow, timely psychiatric evaluations, and appropriate disposition planning.