What are the responsibilities and job description for the PSYCHIATRIST: ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT position at Central Minnesota Mental Health Center?
Position Type: Full-Time (32 hours per week), Exempt
Pay Range: $272,280 - $320,320 Annually Commensurate with experience
Schedule: Monday – Friday, with some evening and weekend involvement which may include on-call availability
Location: In-Person supporting our St. Cloud Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) within a four (4) county region (Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, & Wright). Office is located in Waite Park, MN
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center (CMMHC) has a rewarding opportunity to serve as a Psychiatrist within our St. Cloud Assertive Community Treatment Team. The Psychiatrist, in conjunction with the team leader, has overall clinical responsibility for monitoring client treatment and staff delivery of clinical services. The Psychiatrist provides psychiatric and medical assessment and treatment; clinical supervision, education, and training of the team; and development, maintenance, and supervision of medication regimens.
WHAT IS ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT?
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an intensive, non-residential mental health service for persons with serious mental illness. These individuals commonly experience multiple barriers to successful functioning, including co-occurring substance abuse or dependence, homelessness and unemployment. ACT teams help individuals treat and manage their mental illnesses and develop the skills they need for life in the community of their choice.
ACT services are:
- Provided by multidisciplinary team
- A blend of treatment, rehabilitation, therapeutic, and supportive services
- Directed to persons with a serious mental illness who require intensive services
- Offered on a time-unlimited basis and available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
Description of Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the team leader in sharing overall clinical responsibility for screening and admitting clients
- Monitoring clients' treatment and team member service delivery
- Educating staff on psychiatric and nonpsychiatric medications, their side effects, and health-related conditions
- Actively collaborating with nurses; and helping provide clinical supervision to the team
- Fulfill the following functions for assertive community treatment clients:
- Provide assessment and treatment of clients' symptoms and response to medications, including side effects
- Provide brief therapy to clients
- Provide diagnostic and medication education to clients, with medication decisions based on shared decision making
- Monitor clients' nonpsychiatric medical conditions and nonpsychiatric medications; and conduct home and community visits
- Serve as the point of contact for psychiatric treatment if a client is hospitalized for mental health treatment and shall communicate directly with the client's inpatient psychiatric care providers to ensure continuity of care
- Provide psychiatric backup to the program after regular business hours and on weekends and holidays. The psychiatric care provider may delegate this duty to another qualified psychiatric provider
Salary : $272,280 - $320,320