Behavioral Health & Recovery Services Medical Director

Overview

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Consults, advises, and makes recommendations to the Director of Behavioral Health & Recovery Services regarding the scope and quality of psychiatric, medical and other professional services provided.
• Supervises, assigns, trains, and evaluates psychiatric and clinical staff including independent contract status physicians and other positions.
• Coordinates the planning and implementation of medical training and education for physicians.
• Assists with the recruitment of physicians for the departments.
• Provides medical oversight for medical/clinical services of the Mental Health Plan.
• Assures appropriate medical and psychiatric consultation and liaison with primary health care providers and physicians.
• Makes appropriate business decisions in overseeing, directing, and managing assigned activities.
• Provides strategic leadership through communication, demonstration, and accomplishment of the organizational mission, vision, and values.
• Analyzes legislation and regulations for impact on mental health and substance abuse services.
• Implements appropriate departmental compliance procedures.
• Provides psychiatric, diagnostic, and therapeutic services including continuing patient care; jail-based psychiatric care; acute psychiatric care; emergency on-call consultation; conservatorship evaluation and court testimony.
• Consults with other medical and substance abuse practitioners.
• Directs nursing follow-up care.
• Completes medical records and court reports to mandated standards.
• Evaluates social support/rehabilitation needs. Also educates patient/families/staff and oversees intake and treatment plans.
• Establish, implement, and achieve goals and objectives.

License: Possession of a valid license to practice medicine issued by the California Medical Board.

Experience: Five (5) years progressively responsible experience in the practice of medicine in psychiatry.

Certification: Board certified or Board eligible in Psychiatric Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

• Operate a personal computer and other office equipment.
• Communicate effectively with others in person and over the telephone.
• Provide psychiatric, medical and medication evaluations and crisis intervention.
• Provide psychiatric consultations to primary care physicians treating mental health or substance abuse illnesses.
• Provide medical direction and oversight of County-operated Psychiatric Health Facility.
• Analyze data, interpret policies, procedures and regulations, develop appropriate conclusions, and prepare reports.
• Meet deadlines under stressful conditions.
• Develop, interpret and enforce policies, procedures and processes regarding medical/psychiatric services.
• Plan and ensure adequate medical staffing.
• Supervise, train, direct and evaluate medical and clinical staff.
• Resolve conflicts and respond appropriately to complaints.
• Complete multiple priority projects with conflicting deadlines.
• Maintain confidential information in accordance with legal standards and/or County regulations.
• Frequent use of depth perception, peripheral vision and color perception.
• Sit, stand, or walk for extended periods.
• Frequently lift, carry, reach, push, pull, twist and manipulate large and small objects.
• Kneel, bend, twist, squat, balance and crawl.
• Frequent use of hand-eye coordination.
• Frequent use of data entry device including repetitive hand and arm motion.
• Occasionally lift and carry up to 40 pounds.
• Normal dexterity, frequent holding and grasping.
• Represents the department with other government jurisdictions and community partners.
• Regular attendance is an essential function.

• General psychiatric medicine and forensic psychiatry.
• Psychosocial rehabilitation.
• Laws, legislation and regulations impacting mental health and substance abuse services.
• Community support systems.
• Fundamentals of staff supervision, training and development.

• Work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.
• Supervise and direct medical and clinical staff.
• Conduct and coordinate training.
• Manage patient flow efficiently.
• Consult/collaborate with multiple systems.
• Work with seriously mentally ill and their families.