Psychiatry - Child Physician Job with MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, WA
Tacoma, WA, United States
MultiCare Health System is seeking a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist for their growing child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient service located at Tacoma General Hospital. This opportunity is a 1.0 FTE, inpatient, and in-person role, although we are open to hybrid and remote options. The Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit has 25 beds and houses voluntary and involuntary patients ranging in age from 13 to 18.
Expectations for duties on the unit:
1. Will be covering a maximum of 7-8 patients which will include 1-2 discharges, 1-2 new admits a day.
2. All admissions can be voluntary, or Family initiated or Detained patients
3. The legal status is taken care of when patient is initially admitted by intake coordinators and paperwork is reviewed by intake nurse.
4. New Admits will also have a pediatrician to complete the physical examination on the day of admit so if there is any question for any ongoing medical problems, they are available to consult.
5. Discharge planning and setting up all done by SW team
6. All documentation will be expected to be completed within the 24 hours from seeing patient.
7. Team meetings to be attended daily in the morning with the team to review and present all cases.
8. Templates for all intakes, communication notes, progress notes and discharge summaries are in place and will be available to all clinician’s.
Requirements:
-Board certified/eligible at time of employment
-Licensed in the state of WA by the time of employment
-DEA, NPI & prescriptive authority
-Current BLS for Healthcare Providers certification by the American Heart Association
As a Psychiatrist at MultiCare, you'll enjoy a competitive salary, a full array of benefits, a healthy work/life balance, and a great location which makes this an ideal choice for the physician who is looking to experience the best of Northwest living: from big-city amenities to the pristine beauty and recreational opportunities of the great outdoors.
Based in Tacoma, WA, MultiCare Health System is a leading-edge, integrated not-for-profit healthcare organization.
About us:
MultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization committed to our mission of “partnering for healing and a healthy future”. Our 20,000 team members (employees, providers and volunteers) are united by MultiCare’s values of respect, integrity, stewardship, excellence, collaboration and kindness.
Our roots date back more than a century to the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital. Since then, we’ve grown to become Washington State’s largest community-based, locally governed health care system with numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Immediate Clinic, MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care, Pulse Heart Institute and MultiCare Rockwood Clinic. Our system of care also includes eleven hospitals:
• Allenmore Hospital (Tacoma)
• Auburn Medical Center (Auburn)
• Capital Medical Center (Olympia)
• Covington Medical Center (Covington)
• Deaconess Hospital (Spokane)
• Good Samaritan Hospital (Puyallup)
• Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital (Tacoma)
• Navos Behavioral Health Hospital (Seattle)
• Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma)
• Valley Hospital (Spokane)
• Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital(Tacoma)
MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach Heart Association.
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