Psychiatric Consultant

September 15

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Pediatrics • Urgent Care • Emergency Medicine

501 - 1000

Description

• Provide regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation to behavioral health care managers. • Case review consultations focus primarily on patients who are new to the caseload or who are not improving as expected under their current treatment plan. • Work with behavioral health care managers to oversee the status and population health of their assigned patient caseload. • The psychiatric consultant uses a registry to track all assigned patients and prioritize patients for case review and treatment adjustment. • Recommend any treatment adjustments through the case review process or in ad hoc consultations, including medication recommendations and other interventions, within 24 hours of consulting with a behavioral health care manager or other team members. • Advise on treatment for patients who may need more intensive or more specialized mental health care, supporting treatment in the medical setting until patients can be engaged in specialized care as appropriate. • Clearly communicate the limitations of the case review consultation and treatment recommendations if the patient is not evaluated in person. • Be available to provide occasional ad hoc telephone consultation to primary care providers for very complex patients or challenging patient situations. • Respond to telephone calls from primary care providers and behavioral health care managers within one business day. • Respond to urgent telephone calls within one hour, if available. • Coordinate with other psychiatric consultants for vacation coverage. • Optional Activities: Direct evaluation of patients with significant diagnostic or therapeutic challenges who are identified in discussion with the patient’s behavioral health care manager and/or primary care. • Maintain professional cell phone and email accounts for contact during usual business hours. • Check professional accounts daily and respond to email questions/consultations within two business days, sooner if urgent.

Requirements

• Board certified or board eligible in child and adolescent psychiatry • Demonstrated ability to work in collaborative care virtual clinic with psychology, social work, pediatricians, other child psychiatrist, and case managers • Strong knowledge in childhood disorders-ADHD, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorders • Work with children from ages 3-4 through early childhood • Comfortable prescribing medication for children • Able to provide consultation along with feedback and guidance to other team members in the clinic regarding difficult patients • Positive, flexible, and solution-focused attitude • Ability to quickly synthesize medical and psychiatric data and formulate effective and evidence based clinical recommendations • Desired: Board-eligible in psychiatry. • Experience with primary care psychiatry or consultation-liaison psychiatry.