Senior Psychiatrist - WPIC

For a complete listing of this position please inquire to: joyce.nagel@sfdph.org

Job Description:

WPIC is a Whole Person Integrative Care model that works collaboratively in small teams to engage and stabilize high risk and high vulnerability adult homeless individuals and to help prevent harmful effects of homelessness, establish care for chronic conditions and transition patients to effective healthcare.

The Senior Psychiatric Physician Specialist serves as a leader and subject matter expert as a member of a multidisciplinary team that includes health workers, community peer workers, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians and social workers.

WPIC works collaboratively with other SFDPH and city programs serving people experiencing homelessness.

The Senior Psychiatric Physician Specialist will provide services primarily in low barrier/outreach settings including streets and parks, congregate and non-congregate shelters, sobering centers, and permanent supportive housing sites. Services may also be provided in office, urgent, and drop-in clinic settings.

LOCATION: 555 Stevenson St. and various streets parks and shelters, San Francisco

SCHEDULE/SHIFT: Generally, Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, hours may vary, and evening and weekend shifts may be required

Desirable Experience and Qualifications:

• Desire to work with high risk/high vulnerability people experiencing homelessness in an inner city setting, who have multiple chronic problems, which may include medical, mental health, substance use and cognitive impairment
• >Two (2) yrs experience providing direct psychiatric care to vulnerable underserved populations with Serious Mental Illness (including but not limited to Psychotic Disorder, Bipolar, PTSD; may include Residency training in safety-net settings)
• Experience with crisis management, assessment for involuntary psychiatric holds and need for conservatorship
• Experience, knowledge and skills in Addiction Medicine particularly prescribing buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorder
• Experience working in and/or developing a trauma-informed care model
• Bilingual, bicultural in Spanish

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Current valid CA License medical by the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
2. Successful completion** of a residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association in a Psychiatric medical specialty area (i.e., Board Eligible).
3. Current valid Drug Enforcement Agency registration with the United States Department of Justice.