Summary
The Psychiatrist provides comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment services to patients across the lifespan within a Federally Qualified Health Center. This role plays a key part in advancing integrated behavioral health care, collaborating closely with primary care providers, behavioral health clinicians, and care management teams.
Responsibilities
- Conducts psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and medication management for patients with mental health and co-occurring conditions for adults, adolescents, and children.
- Develops and implements individualized treatment plans consistent with evidence-based practices.
- Provides substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment.
- Provides crisis intervention and risk assessments as needed.
- Adheres to FQHC standards, federal and state regulations, and clinical best practices.
- Applicants must have a medical degree from an accredited medical school in the U.S., be Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry. Have an unrestricted Maine license to practice medicine. And have a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency registration with authorization to prescribe controlled substances.
Qualifications
- Experience working in an FQHC, community mental health center, or similar setting.
- Experience with telepsychiatry.
- Familiarity with trauma informed care and social determinants of health.
- Proficiency in the use of at least one ONC-certified electronic medical record system and basic Microsoft applications.
- Must not have an active record on the System for Award Management (SAM) website.
- Must show proof of immunity or have been immunized for MMR, Hep B, Influenza (required annually) and the COVID primary series.