Psychiatrist

Education and Certification:

• MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.

• Licensed or eligible for medical licensure in Utah

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of clinical practice.
• Experience with underserved and marginalized populations, including those with mental health and substance use disorders.
• Experience in Addiction Medicine
• Leadership experience in correctional health, public health, or community health.
• Familiarity with correctional healthcare systems, policies, and accreditation standards (e.g., NCCHC, ACA).

Skills:

• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to public health principles.
• Proficiency in implementing quality improvement and population health initiatives.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

• Clinical Care
  • Evaluate, diagnose, and treat mental health and substance use disorders in incarcerated individuals.
  • Develop and implement individualized treatment plans, including psychopharmacology and psychotherapy.
  • Provide emergency and crisis psychiatric care as needed.
  • Monitor and adjust treatment regimens for effectiveness and safety.
  • Providing clinical care via telehealth.
  • Position may require some travel to a secondary facility.
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  Leadership and Collaboration
  • Collaborate with medical staff, behavioral health teams, and correctional officers to ensure continuity of care.
  • Serve as a consultant on mental health cases for other healthcare providers.
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  Policy and Program Development
  • Ensure compliance with correctional healthcare accreditation standards (e.g., NCCHC, ACA).
• Education and Training
  • Mentor and support staff in delivering mental health services.
• Documentation and Reporting
  • Maintain accurate and timely documentation in the electronic health record (EHR).
  • Ensure adherence to confidentiality and ethical standards in all aspects of care.

If offered this position, your employment will be contingent upon passing a background check and drug testing. There will be no cost to you for these checks. This check will include fingerprinting, which will be available at various DHHS locations for your convenience and drug testing at a facility close to your location. Fingerprinting will be completed prior to your first day of employment.

Supplemental Information

• Current unlimited license to practice medicine in the State of Utah (MD).
• Requires certification in psychiatry or neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or to be eligible for board certification upon completion of training.
• Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g. working at great heights, working in extreme outdoor weather conditions, being subject to possible physical attack, etc.
• Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to perform the work; however, there may be some walking, standing, bending, carrying light items; driving an automobile, etc. Special physical demands are not required to perform the work.

• Effective July 1, 2021, State of Utah Employees must either reside in Utah or be in the process of relocating to Utah within 30 days of their start date.

• This position may currently be a hybrid of both in-office and remote work days. Please note, a position's eligibility for remote work is established by agency management and is subject to change at their discretion, at any time, and for any reason