Psychiatrist

Company Description

International Health and Medical Serivces delivers customized medical and security risk management and wellbeing solutions to enable our clients to operate safely and effectively in environments far from home. Founded in 1984, we operate in 92 countries providing integrated medical solutions to organizations with international operations. Our innovative technology and medical and security expertise focus on prevention, offering real-time, actionable insights and on-the-ground quality delivery. We provide clinical services to include “hands on” direct care at over 800 sites around the world, many of which include inpatient clinical care capabilities. With 12,000 staff (including 5,200 medical and behavioral health providers) our services include the design, deployment, and operation of healthcare solutions including freestanding surgical facilities in remote and austere environments, telemedicine consultation through a wide range of virtual modalities, referrals to a global network of more than 100,000 vetted providers, and global aeromedical evacuation. Within our portfolio of companies, International Health and Medical Serivces, headquartered in Houston, Texas provides contracted healthcare support to Government defense and civil agencies and government contractors, including support to military exercises and operations, diplomatic missions, natural disasters, and refugee care. To protect your workforce, we are at your fingertips: https://www.ihmsusa.us/

Job Description

This project is in the proposal stage, we’re awaiting to be awarded the contract.

International Health and Medical Services is looking for an experienced Psychiatrist to provide comprehensive mental health assessments, diagnoses, and treatment plans for patients, ensuring they receive appropriate care. This role involves collaborating with the healthcare team to promote mental well-being, manage psychiatric conditions, and facilitate crisis intervention when necessary. 

Key Responsibilities

• Provides a full range of psycho-diagnostic services including assessment and the most appropriate psychotherapeutic techniques. 
• Performs psychiatric evaluations for patients via onsite and telepsychiatry services for scheduled appointments, emergency, or urgent care visits. 
• Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions and has clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessments, medication evaluation and management, suicide risk assessments, crisis interventions. 
• The Psychiatrist may serve as a mental health team leader with responsibilities for coordinating consults and triage.  
• Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning. 
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members which enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care. 
• Orders diagnostic tests and consultations and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.  
• Ensures that the practice of psychiatric medicine is consistent with Joint Commission and clinical practice psychiatric guidelines, VISN standards, national statutes and regulations. 
• Participates in supervision and teaching in support of the psychiatric residency program. 
• Performs on call duties. 
• Involved in performance improvement and quality assurance initiatives. 
• Provides leadership guidance and consultation to staff. 
• Serves as a consultant to other medical center staff and Advanced Practitioners to assist in implementation of treatment plan as appropriate regarding their patients.  
• Consults with the Clinical Director for complex psychiatric patients and as required by client policy. 
• Provides infirmary care including admission, discharge, and daily rounds for patients that require higher levels of psychiatric care or monitoring. 
• Performs comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and initiates treatment plans for patients as required by client policy, or as required for patient psychiatric complaint. 
• Follows client policies in the management of significant mental illness including prevention of violence, homicide, self-harm and suicide.  
• Applies knowledge of drugs and therapeutics when prescribing medication. 
• Applies patient-specific knowledge to monitor and control stress levels and provide emotional support and counseling to patients. 
• Coordinates psychiatric care needs of patients including referrals to off-site consultants. 
• Solicits and reviews pertinent psychiatric records as indicated. 
• Adheres to universal precautions. 
• Utilizes and documents interpretation and/or translation and/or assisted communication services as needed to ensure ability to communicate with patients or others who are Limited English Proficient (LEP) or have a communication disability o