Avenue360 Health and Wellness
Psychiatrist (Heights/Midtown/Memorial)
Our Compensation Package Includes:
- Generous Paid Time Off- (11 paid holidays per year, 2 Floating Holidays per year, 14 paid Vacation days per year, 4 hours per month of accrued Sick days)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401K match up to 4%
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
Overview:
Provides psychiatric and counseling services to clients of Avenue 360 outpatient medical care programs as well as its mental health and substance abuse treatment programs.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Diagnostic Assessments: comprehensive evaluation for identification of psychiatric disorders, mental status evaluation, differential diagnosis which may involve use of other clinical and laboratory tests, case formulation, and treatment plans or disposition.
Emergency Psychiatric Services: rapid evaluation, differential diagnosis, acute treatment, crisis intervention, and referral. Available on a 24-hour basis, emergency room referral is allowable as the client’s needs warrant.
Brief Psychotherapy: individual, supportive, group, couple, family, hypnosis, biofeedback, and other psychophysiological treatments and behavior modification.
Psychopharmacotherapy: evaluation and medication treatment of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to, anxiety disorders, major depression, pain syndromes, habit control problems, psychosis and organic mental disorders.
Rehabilitation Services: some, but not necessarily all, of the following: physical, psychosocial, behavioral, and cognitive training.
Completes all EMR required fields after each visit including the e-signing of notes.
Quality Management: Performs QM/QA activities.
Other duties as assigned.
Educational and Job Related Requirements:
Current medical license within the State of Texas.
At least 5 years of experience in providing services to disenfranchised populations.
Current BLS Certification required.
Ability to relate to culturally diverse patients and community.
Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
Any CME requirments
Continuing Education and Training Requirements:
Participates in trainings required by the funding source and/or as required by licensure.