Psychiatrist- Child / Adolescent

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📍 Dartmouth, MA, USFULL TIME

About this role

Overview

Southcoast Behavioral Health – Now Hiring: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Southcoast Behavioral Health is a 192-bed inpatient behavioral health hospital dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality mental health care. Our multidisciplinary team works together to deliver evidence-based treatment in a supportive and collaborative environment. With modern resources, including the WellSky electronic medical record system, we are committed to helping patients achieve lasting recovery.

We Are Hiring For:

  • Full-Time Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (1 Opening)

What We're Looking For:

  • Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry
  • Experience or interest in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • DEA Waiver required
  • Passion for providing exceptional inpatient behavioral health care
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills to work alongside clinicians, nurses, and the multidisciplinary treatment team

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide psychiatric care on a 24-bed adolescent inpatient unit.
  • Participate in treatment team meetings and complete clinical documentation.
  • Collaborate closely with clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop and implement individualized treatment plans.

Position Highlights:

  • Full-time, 40-hour work week
  • Average caseload of 12 patients per day
  • Call responsibilities with additional call pay
  • Competitive negotiable compensation
  • Sign-on bonus
  • Productivity bonus
  • Relocation assistance
  • Student loan repayment assistance
  • Comprehensive Acadia benefits package
  • Interview process includes an initial virtual interview followed by an onsite visit

If you're looking to make a meaningful impact in the lives of children and adolescents while working with an experienced behavioral health team, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Summary:

  • Responsible for providing clinical services to patients at the facility within medical protocols defined by federal and state regulations, as well as by corporate, facility policy or procedures.
  • Review medical information on patients to ensure medical stability and to offer medical recommendations.
  • Ensure the physical health and care of patients, working constructively and collaboratively with other healthcare professionals is held to the highest standards.
  • Review and complete medical information for individual care plans.
  • Direct services and information in a timely manner, maintaining appropriate confidential documentation, compliance and billing in accordance with the policy and procedures.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required.
  • One or more years’ experience as a staff physician with the population served by the facility preferred.

Licenses/Certifications

  • Current license to practice medicine, by the state in which the facility(s) operates.
  • Board certification or certificate of admissibility for board certification in a behavioral health specialty.
  • Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working.
  • Additional specific DEA credentials may be required, per state and facility regulations or policy.

Our Comprehensive Treatment Network 

 ~23,500 Employees · ~11,400 Beds · 258 Locations · 38 States · 1 Network 

 As a leading provider of behavioral healthcare services in the United States and Puerto Rico, Acadia Healthcare operates 258 treatment facilities across 38 states. Our network of treatment facilities offers multiple levels of care for various behavioral health and substance use disorders. At Acadia, our primary goal is to meet patients where they’re at in their treatment process. We do this by providing a multitude of levels of care, including detoxification, residential treatment for substance use, residential treatment for dual diagnosis, acute psychiatric inpatient hospitalization, medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services, and an array of outpatient programming options, ranging from partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) and intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) to traditional outpatient services. Our expansive network of treatment facilities creates greater access to care, reduces the stigma associated with mental illness and substance use, and offers those in our communities a safe environment in which to receive the treatment they need. 

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