Psychiatry Opening in Lawrence, MA

Company: Summit Recruiting Group
Location: Lawrence
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

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**Outpatient Psychiatrist Opening in Massachusetts**
Lawrence, MA: 30 miles from Boston

**About the Job:**
- Full-time, permanent
- Provides direct outpatient psychiatric services through comprehensive evaluation (in urgent care and outpatient setting), diagnosis, treatment planning, counseling, and psychopharmacological treatment of assigned patients.
- Works as member of an interdisciplinary team for the management of complex psychiatric patients in a community mental health clinic setting.
- Position has a hybrid schedule of in-person and telecommute duties.

**Basic responsibilities:**
- Provides psychiatric evaluations, ongoing psychiatric assessments and treatments, and counseling to assigned patients.
- Analyzes patient data and test or examination findings in the diagnosis of mental disorders of assigned patients.
- As a physician within the medical staff has duties within a multidisciplinary team based client care which includes, but is not limited to: team clinical rounds, critical patient risk review, teaching of clinical interns/medical students/psychiatric residents, and participates in quality improvement initiatives.

*Data acquisition/coordination of treatment:*
- Gathers and maintains patient information and records, including social, medical, and substance use history obtained from patients, relatives and significant others, and other sources.
- Collaborates with physicians, psychotherapists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychologists, social workers, or other professionals to obtain client history and to discuss treatment plans and progress.

*Treatments:*
- Develops individualized care plans involving evidence-based psychotherapeutic and/or medication treatments to assigned clients, when indicated.
- Monitors patient responses to these treatments (including adverse effects for medications) and makes necessary adjustments or recommendations.
- Focuses on and screens for patient safety and harm-reduction with each patient meeting and with all forms of treatment.

*Documentation:*
- Completes and submits billing sheets and progress notes within seven (7 days of providing service. Completes progress notes and other documentation within 24 hours.

*Supervision:*
Participates in periodic supervision by the Medical Director and integrates recommendations and other feedback into clinical work performance.

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