Remote Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (NY license!) - Part Time or Full Time

• Work as part of the virtual behavioral health team, providing patient services using evidence based medicine

• Diagnose and assess mental/behavioral health disorders for pediatric, adolescent and young adult patients; formulate differential diagnoses

• Demonstrate appropriate clinical judgement in assessment and treatment, following established clinical care guidelines

• Collaborate and communicate with therapist team and medical leadership to discuss patient treatment plans

• Order and interpret diagnostic tests when appropriate

• Conduct patient history and initial evaluations of incoming patients

• Prescribe medications as part of the patient’s treatment regime as allowed by license

• Provide both medication management and counseling for patients

• Educate patient and parent on medication side effects, risk/benefits and proper usage of new medication and reasonable outcome expectations of medications

• Establish and modify patient treatment plan based on clinical assessment and re-assessment with screening tools

• Appropriately document each patient visit in the electronic medical record, including subjective and objective data, assessments, treatment plan, and other documentation as necessary

• Communicate patient’s plan of care with behavioral health team and patient’s primary care physician

• Work with members of the healthcare team in educating the patients of their medical care

• Continually update clinical knowledge and skills through consultation, formal and informal education and review of literature for the benefit of themselves as well as for the healthcare team

• Provide appropriate referrals when necessary

• Provide supervision to psychiatric nurse practitioners

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