Description

Job Summary

Under minimal supervision, provides psychiatric care as a member of our multidisciplinary consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry team throughout Denver Health Hospital, which includes general medical floors, medical and surgical intensive care units, surgical step-down units, labor & deliver/mom-baby/ob-gyn services, pediatrics, and the correctional care medical facility. Diagnose and treat children and adults, including patients with complex and co-occurring medical, psychiatric, and substance use disorders.  Provides expert assessment and evidence-based, trauma-informed clinical care. Provides teaching and supervision to multi-disciplinary and multi-level learners and trainees including psychiatry residents, psychology interns, APPs, and medical students. Opportunities will be available to be involved in quality improvement projects, data monitoring, and scholarly work (e.g. publications, grant proposals, research). As needed, will perform administrative support functions and assist in dispositional planning.

Essential Functions

• Provide high quality clinical services to individuals currently hospitalized, often for co-occurring complex medical and psychiatric conditions, that is diversity-equity-inclusion-informed and trauma-informed as well as developmentally appropriate.
• Works on a 7-on / 7-off schedule (Monday thru Sunday) with responsibilities to cover medication for opioid use disorder consults on weekends.
• Obtains relevant medical histories, makes appropriate diagnoses, implements effective, evidence-based treatments.
• Conducts risk assessments for suicide and violence among patients at risk due to psychiatric illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar, depressive, anxiety, substance use disorders, and personality disorders.
• Applies treatment statutes for involuntary psychiatric and/or substance use disorder treatments.
• Consults with providers who are part of the primary medical/surgical team and generates recommendations, referrals, and case management as indicated.
• Interprets the results of relevant laboratory and imagining studies and applies them to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric symptoms.
• Generates documentation of assessment and intervention in the medical record in a timely manner.
• Provides teaching and supervision to multi-disciplinary trainees and medical students.
• Participates in quality improvement projects and academic efforts in research and professional writing.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in additional trainings, educational programs, reviewing current literature, and attending in-service meetings and workshops.
• Adheres to, complies with, and demonstrates support for the mission and values of Denver Health.
• Has regular and predictable attendance

Requirements

Education

Doctorate Degree Graduate of an accredited medical school. Required
Completion of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship is preferred.

Work Experience

1-3 years of work experience preferred.

Licenses

• MD or DO-Physician - State Medical Board Required
• BLS-Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) - AHA - American Heart Association Required
• Certification in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Preferred, but Not Required
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of and ability to apply professional medical principles, procedures, and techniques.
• Thorough knowledge of pharmacological agents used in patient treatment.
• Able to effectively manage and direct medical staff activities while providing quality medical care.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, and social skills.
• Able to interact effectively with people of varied educational, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds, skill levels and value systems.
• Performs work duties in a professional manner.
• Knowledgeable and compliant with all regulatory standards, including specialty level requirements.
• Knowledge of major concepts, principles, and theories related to psychiatric disease processes (including serious and persistent mental illness, eating disorders, and trauma disorders), traumatic brain injury, intellectual disability, and recovery from polytrauma across the lifespan.
• Ability to thoughtfully assess different psychiatric conditions co-occurring with complex medical conditions, ability to liaise with medical teams and advocate for patient needs.
• Must have training in topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and be willing to voice these values throughout work duties. This includes, but is not limited to, work with the underserved and unhoused population, social justice-oriented work, and trauma-informed, inclusive work.
• Ability to respond to feedback and incorporate it into practice.
• Prior formal research publications and presentations is appreciated but not required.
• Proficient in the use of computers and computer systems and Microsoft Office Suite; Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• Knowledge of electronic health record preferred.