Eastern State Hospital is seeking BC/BE ADULT, GENERAL, FORENSIC, AND
GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRISTS to assist with locum tenens coverage. Experience working with an acute, adult inpatient populations is required.
Eastern State Hospital is seeking a PSYCHIATRIC PRACTITIONER (Preferred DNP/NP) to assist with locum tenens coverage on an admitting forensic or NGRI units . Also, candidates must have experience working with acute, adult inpatient and populations. Details for the assignment are provided below:
Assignment:
- Available to start immediately (pending credentialing)
- Initial Appointment for 3-month assignment, with option to extend 3 -6 month assignment, if the position remains unfilled
- Full-time, 40 hours a week with assigned office hours of Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm with 1 hour lunch break
- NOT approved for overtime
- No weekends, no holidays, no on-call duty
- Ability to provide cross coverage, to include forensic populations, as required
- Once a month, participation in Lunch Coverage Call (12:00 PM – 1:00 PM)
Apply NowQualifications:- 3+ more years as a Licensed Practitioner, preferred
- Autonomous license, preferred
- Experience as the Head of Treatment Team (HOTT), preferred
- Experience working with in-patient (preferred), adult admission, forensic admission, or geriatric admission and chronic geriatric inpatient populations is required
- Experience conducting comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and forensic evaluations for competency restoration is required
- Comfortable working on admissions work up and potential rapid turnover
- Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary treatment team
- BLS Healthcare Provider certification is required
Responsibilities:- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations. Ensure medical history, mental status, and physical examinations are completed according to policy, TJC and CMS standards and other regulatory agencies.
- Follow treatment protocols for competency restoration to ensure rapid turnaround of pretrial forensic patients.
- Attend judicial hearings on campus, appropriate to the assigned patient population.
- Lead Treatment Planning Conferences and provide effective leadership in developing and maintaining the therapeutic process between physicians, nursing staff, psychologists, social workers, rehab staff and patients.
- Complete required documentation in a timely manner. Failure to complete documentation in a timely manner may result in withholding timecard approvals and/or cancellation of contract.
Position Details:- Facility Hospitalizations: Acute, Adult, Inpatient wards (male & female)
- Facility Demographics: Forensic, NGRI, Civil, Jail Transfer, and Geriatric populations
- May be assigned Scheduling Coverage, as needed to other units
- Facility Stay: Short and Long-term length of stay
- Caseload varies by ward
- Admissions unit: 10 patients per provider
- Geriatric (long-term) unit: 40 patients per provider
- NGRI Units—30-40 patients per provider
- Admissions/Discharges
- Admission unit: 5-10 per week
- Geriatric (long-term) unit: 4 per month
- PCP coverage provided
- Full complement of interdisciplinary team members
- Weekly Notes for New Admissions
- Monthly Notes for patients over 60 days following admissions
