PHYSICIAN SPECIALIST - OPT D

Job Requisition ID: 48765 

Opening Date: 08/05/2025
Closing Date: 09/02/2025
​Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: PHYSICIAN SPEC OPTION D - 32224 
Skill Option: Special License - IL License to Practice Medicine - Psychiatry & Neurology 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $18,269 - $25,590 per month ($219,228 - $307,080 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Sangamon
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC063 Professional Employees, Educators,Juvenile Justice School Counselors and Special Education Resources Coordinators,and Physicians AFSCME
Merit Comp Code: 

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This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.

 

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Position Overview

The Division of Division of Mental Health is seeking to hire a Physician Specialist, Opt. D for Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center in Springfield, Illinois to perform highly responsible and exacting professional work as a staff psychiatrist on an assigned hall.  Performs and writes psychiatric evaluation and progress notes.  Provides support and expertise to staff in working with patients. Provides education in areas of patient health, interrelationship of bio-social issues to patient care, especially in-regards to the use of psycho tropic medications, side effects toxicities, etc.  Serves as an active and contributing member on assigned facility committees, staff meetings, teaching conferences and clinical committees.  Provides psychiatric services and consultation to other Division of Mental Health hospitals via tele-psychiatry and periodic on-site review of cases. Provides clinical information and guidance to other clinicians.

Essential Functions

• As a non-administrati