Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatrist

We are recruiting for a motivated Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatrist to join our team!

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Department

Adult Psychiatrists

With over 700 employees, Behavioral Health Services (BHS) at Denver Health is a large and rapidly expanding department that provides psychiatric care for patients in community, emergency, inpatient, justice, medical, mobile, and outpatient settings. As a non-profit committed to meeting community needs and promoting health equity, Denver Health offers psychiatrists a practice full of meaning and purpose. All physicians at Denver Health have an academic appointment at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. As such, Denver Health is an excellent place to work for physicians with an interest in clinical education.

Job Summary

The Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry and Substance Use Disorder Medical Provider delivers high-quality clinical psychiatric care within the department of Behavioral Health Services (BHS). This role focuses on direct patient care, interdisciplinary collaboration, teaching, and scholarly activity, without formal supervisory or administrative authority over other clinicians or staff. The provider contributes clinical expertise to support quality, safety, access, and patient outcomes for adolescents with complex psychiatric and substance use disorders.

This role provides expert assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of adolescents with complex, co-occurring medical, psychiatric, and substance use disorders, including patients experiencing homelessness, poverty, and treatment resistance. The provider participates in education and scholarly work within their area of expertise and collaborates closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure excellent clinical care and a safe, therapeutic environment.

Essential Functions:

• Provide Expert Clinical Care and Scholarship. Deliver evidence-based psychiatric and substance use disorder care while contributing to education, training, and scholarly activities as appropriate. Serve as a clinical resource to colleagues through consultation and collaboration.
• Diagnose and Treat Adolescents. Evaluate, diagnose, and treat adolescents with psychiatric and/or substance use disorders requiring inpatient psychiatric care and/or ASAM 3.7 / 3.7-WM level of substance use treatment.
• Focus on Superior Patient Care by 1) practicing evidence-based, high-quality state-of-the art medicine; 2) encourage increased patient understanding, involvement in care, and treatment decisions; 3) achieve and maintain optimal patient access; 4) insist on departmental focus on superior patient service; 5) assisting with patients who have barriers to disposition; 6) work with community partners (e.g. Signal, CDHS) to improve outcomes and access to community resources; and 7) participate in or support education and research.
• Collaborate on Care Delivery by 1) leading multidisciplinary teams of case managers, discharge planners, nursing, occupational therapy, psychotherapists, physicians, and other professionals to provide clinical care and meeting with non-direct report disciplines’ leadership; 2) including staff, other physicians and management in both service and patient care improvements; 3) treating all members with respect; 4) demonstrating the highest levels of ethical and professional conduct; and 5) behaving in a manner consistent with Denver Health values and goals.
• Listen and Communicate by 1) providing clinical information in a clear and timely manner; 2) requesting information and resources needed to provide care consistent with Denver Health goals; and 3) provide and accept feedback in a respectful manner from all staff.
• Provide training by teaching residents, medical students and advance trainees from psychiatric and other health disciplines (including nationally accredited training programs) while supporting these GME training programs so they can continue to have their learners train on site.

Education:

• Doctorate Degree Graduate of an accredited medical school. Required

Work Experience:

Licenses:

• Board Certification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Required 
• Board Certification in Addiction Psychiatry or Addiction Medicine. Preferred 
• BLS-Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) - AHA - American Heart Association Required 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Thorough knowledge of pharmacological agents, including buprenorphine, used