Part-Time Psychiatric Support Clinician; University Health Services

(Part-Time) Psychiatric Support Clinician (06000C) University Health Services 81338

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Departmental Overview

University Health Services serves the campus as a comprehensive campus-based health center providing fully accredited medical care, counseling and psychological services, and innovative health promotion programs for students, faculty, and staff.

Student Mental Health is a highly utilized, comprehensive student counseling service that assists students with a wide range of concerns including academic success, life management, career and life planning, crisis management, and emotional and psychiatric issues.

Learn more by visiting the UHS website, our strategic plan, and our UHS values.

University Health Services (UHS) and primary care are integrated care environments that support a holistic approach to patient-centered care. The collaborative care model at UHS allows for a novel and innovative approach to integrated behavioral health in outpatient healthcare settings. This position provides psychiatry coverage and offers an opportunity for the incumbent to help further develop this unique integrated approach.

In order to address demand for mental health services and to serve students who would benefit from integrated care, UHS has an interprofessional team focused on improving the student experience, reaching a broader array of students, improving the quality of care, and fostering enthusiasm for this way of working together. The model optimizes the talent, expertise, training, and spirit of expanded, multidisciplinary medical and mental health teams.

As a result, students experience comprehensive, seamless, timely, individualized, effective, safe and comfortable services that destigmatize mental health, address body, mind and emotions, and feel like, for those who desire it, that a team is taking care of them.

The psychiatrist supports multidisciplinary teams—medical providers, patients, behavioral health providers (BHPs), care managers, clinic nurses, counselors, and psychiatrists. They collaborate with members of the treatment team regarding appropriate medications and other treatment strategies, conduct direct clinical care in a brief model, provide educational support on diagnosing and managing behavioral health conditions, and support focused population management activities for students identified for care management support.

The psychiatrist is expected to be interruptible to support warm handoffs and urgent psychiatric matters.

Application Review Date

The First Review Date for this job is: 10/24/25. This job will remain open until filled.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Support - Consultation (35-55%)
  • Routinely provide consultation and recommend treatment adjustments to medical and mental health providers for complex patients or challenging patient situations.
  • Be responsive to telephone calls, secure electronic messages, and requests for EHR chart reviews.
• Direct Clinical Care (30%)
  • Provide direct in-the-moment and same-day evaluation of patients with significant diagnostic or therapeutic challenges who are identified in discussion with the patient's medical provider, mental health provider, and/or care manager. As appropriate, conduct assessments, identify disposition, provide brief and focused therapeutic support, and connect students with other mental health providers at UHS or in the community.
  • In some cases, accept a brief transfer of care for more extensive evaluation, diagnosis, disposition, and treatment in the medical setting until patients can be returned to their primary care provider (PCP) or engaged in specialized care in the UHS Psychiatry department or the…