Physician (Psychiatry)

Overview

 

Physician (Psychiatry) Schofield Barracks, Hawaii

 

About the Position: This position is with Defense Health Agency located at the Desmond T. Doss Health Clinic, Psychiatry Services, on Schofield Barracks, HI.This is a Direct Hire Solicitation.

The Island of Oahu in Hawaii is often nicknamed (or translated as) "The Gathering Place". It is currently the most populated Hawaiian Island. The city of Honolulu is the largest city, state capital, and main deep water marine port for the State of Hawaii. As a jurisdictional unit, the entire island of Oahu is in Honolulu County, although as a place name, Honolulu occupies only a portion of the southeast end of the island. Well-known features found on Oahu include Waikiki, Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, Hanauma, Kane’ohe Bay, Kailua Bay, North Shore, and the resort destination, Ko’Olina.

Oahu is also known for having the longest rain shower in history, which lasted for 200 consecutive days. Kāneʻohe Ranch reported 247 straight days with rain from August 27, 1993 to April 30, 1994. The average temperature in Oahu is around 70–85 °F (21–29 °C) and the island is the warmest in June through October. The weather during the winter is cooler, but still warm with an average temperature of 68–78 °F (20–26 °C).

Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid-time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions.

 

 

 

Responsibilities

Serves as a Physician (Psychiatry) in a Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) responsible for providing examinations, diagnoses, and treatment of diseases affecting mental health including the brain, nervous system, substance abuse of drugs or chemicals, and personality disturbances.

 

 

Major Duties

 

1. Clinical Duties:

 

Serves as a recognized technical authority in the delivery of Psychiatric medical care to a wide demographic and large variety of psychiatric patient presentations, symptoms, conditions, and complexities. Provides treatment services in any capacity including, but not limited to, inpatient services, consultation liaison services, partial hospitalization, day programs, emergency psychiatric services, tele-psychiatric services, and routine and intensive outpatient services. Makes recommendations on major diagnostics and treatment plans. Develops treatment and rehabilitation plans and provides appropriate therapeutic treatment services that may include medication management, electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, various individual therapy modalities, group therapy, and new treatments as they arise. Monitors treatment effectiveness through evidence-based medicine and alters course of treatment as needed through individualized treatment plans, provides continuing follow-up care for inpatients and outpatients with mental health disorders such as psychosis, organic brain syndrome, substance abuse/addictions, etc. and for complications related to these disorders and provides psychiatric care for walk-in patients presenting with acute illness. Conducts thorough biopsychosocial evaluations of presenting patients, including but not limited to integration of laboratory, radiological, EKG, psychological testing, and clinical findings. Prescribes appropriate pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment.

Provides appropriate referrals to other medical and mental health care providers in and outside of MTF, including network providers, network and hospital contractors, and patient assistance groups outside the agency such as Unit and Family Services, Military One Source, service component community Services, etc. Identifies patient treatment needs and arranges for a safe therapeutic outcome. Collaborates with physicians in other medical specialties on cases involving rare, complicated, and multifaceted cases that require advanced treatments. Provides professional consultation, supervision, and collaborative medical support to other professional staff such as psychologists, advanced practice nurses, social workers, and other healthcare providers within the hospital and across other mental health clinics. Serves as member of local Medical Evaluation Boards for assessment and determination of duty. Determines and provides mental health assessments of fitness and suitability for duty, weapon handling, and deployments of service members based on psychiatric clinical assessment and interpretation and application of various relevant policies and instructions from the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Health Agency (DHA), DoD Service component regulations, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), and local hospital. Provides timely communication to patient’s Command on