Duration: 3 Months

Shift Timing: 1st (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Role & Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations. Ensure medical history, mental status, and physical examinations are completed according to policy, TJC and CMS standards and other regulatory agencies.
• Follow treatment protocols for competency restoration to ensure rapid turnaround of pretrial forensic patients.
• Attend judicial hearings on campus, appropriate to the assigned patient population.
• Lead Treatment Planning Conferences and provide effective leadership in developing and maintaining the therapeutic process between physicians, nursing staff, psychologists, social workers, rehab staff and patients.
• Complete required documentation in a timely manner. Failure to complete documentation in a timely manner may result in withholding time card approvals and/or cancellation of contract.

Required Qualifications:

• 3 more years as a Licensed Practitioner, preferred.
• Autonomous license, preferred.
• Experience as the Head of Treatment Team (HOTT), preferred.
• Experience working with in-patient (preferred), adult admission, forensic admission, or geriatric admission and chronic geriatric inpatient populations is required.
• Experience conducting comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and forensic evaluations for competency restoration is required
• Comfortable working on admissions work up and potential rapid turnover.
• Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary treatment team.
• BLS Healthcare Provider certification is required.

Position Details:

• Facility Hospitalizations: Acute, Adult, Inpatient wards (male & female).
• Facility Demographics: Forensic, NGRI, Civil, Jail Transfer, and Geriatric populations.
• May be assigned Scheduling Coverage, as needed to other units.
• Facility Stay: Short and Long-term length of stay.
• Caseload varies by ward.
• Admissions unit: 10 patients per provider
• Geriatric (long-term) unit: 40 patients per provider.
• NGRI Units—30-40 patients per provider.