Psychiatric Practitioner
Company: Staff Today Inc. (STI)
Location: Williamsburg
Posted on: January 21, 2023
Job Description:
Staff Today Inc. is currently seeking a Psychiatric Practitioner
to work at a facility in Williamsburg, VA. These are registry
positions with our company Staff Today Inc.
Pay Rate: $134 / hour
Assignment:
- Available to start immediately (pending credentialing)
- Initially 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)
Qualifications:
- Experience working with adult 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 an admissions work up and potential
rapid turnover
- Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary
treatment team
- BLS Healthcare Provider certification is required
Position Details:
- Facility Hospitalizations: Acute, Adult, Inpatient wards (male
& female)
- Facility Demographics: Forensic, NGRI, Civil, Jail Transfer,
and Geriatric populations
- 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
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- 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
time card approvals and/or cancellation of contract.
If interested, please apply through this job post. You may send a
copy of your most recent resume. If you have any questions, please
feel free to call Staff Today Inc. at 800-928-5561 and ask to speak
with Tawnya Monday-Friday (08:30 AM - 05:00 PM PST)
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Keywords: Staff Today Inc. (STI), Newport News , Psychiatric Practitioner, Healthcare , Williamsburg, Virginia
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