What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychiatrist position at Houston Area Community Services, Inc.?
Overview:
Provides psychiatric and counseling services to clients of Avenue 360 outpatient medical care programs as well as its mental health and substance abuse treatment programs.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Diagnostic Assessments: Comprehensive evaluation for identification of psychiatric disorders, mental status evaluation, differential diagnosis which may involve use of other clinical and laboratory tests, case formulation, and treatment plans or disposition.
- Emergency Psychiatric Services: Provide Crisis Resolution Services and make appropriate recommendations for other crisis services as needed.
- Brief Psychotherapy: Individual, supportive, group, couple, family, hypnosis, biofeedback, and other psychophysiological treatments and behavior modification.
- Psychopharmacotherapy: Evaluation and medication treatment of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to, anxiety disorders, major depression, pain syndromes, habit control problems, psychosis and organic mental disorders; provide case consultation to other providers in organization as needed.
- Rehabilitation Services: Some, but not necessarily all, of the following: physical, psychosocial, behavioral, and cognitive training.
- Completes all EMR required fields after each visit including the e-signing of notes.
- Quality Management: Performs QM/QA activities.
- Other duties as assigned.
Educational and Job Related Requirements:
- Current license with the State of Texas.
- Current Board Certification through the ABPN.
- 5 years of experience in providing services to disenfranchised populations.
- Current BLS Certification.
- Ability to relate to culturally diverse patients and community.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
Continuing Education and Training Requirements:
Participates in trainings required by the funding source and/or as required by licensure.
