Child Partial Hospital ​/Outpatient Psychiatrist Opportunity in Harrisburg, PA

Child Partial Hospital /Outpatient Psychiatrist Opportunity in Harrisburg, PA

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health for Penn State College of Medicine and the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is seeking a Child Psychiatrist for a combined partial hospital and outpatient position at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (PPI) in Harrisburg, PA.

The primary focus of this position is to provide partial hospital services in a team-based care model in brand new space designed explicitly for pediatric behavioral health. The child partial hospital psychiatric program includes a multidisciplinary team of nurses, teachers, therapists, and psychiatrists. Learners on the unit include medical students, residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows. Patients are generally seen in the morning, followed by team meetings on 2 days per week.

There are opportunities to provide ongoing general outpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents to supplement the acute care provided in the partial hospital setting. There are also options to dedicate a portion of time to any of the subspecialty areas in the clinic that is of interest to the applicant. The general outpatient services are in the same building as the partial hospital and provide a spectrum of services including individual therapy, medication management and group programs with full time dedicated master level therapists care coordination, nursing, and administrative staff.

Workplace culture promotes a team-based collegial atmosphere that allows faculty to provide patient-centered care, while advancing their scholarly interests and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

As the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health for Penn State College of Medicine and the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, we are committed to enhancing the quality of life through improved mental and behavioral health, the professional preparation of those who will serve the mental and behavioral health needs of others, and the discovery of knowledge that will benefit all.

We achieve excellence through the integration of education, research, patient care, and service to the community. We use the resources of Penn State University as an R1 land grant university, and strengths in neurosciences, methodology, and social and biological sciences, to discover new ways to improve the lives of people with mental and behavioral illness.

We host specialty clinical and research programs, including research that crosses the translational spectrum. Our educational programs include psychiatry residency, psychiatry child and adolescent fellowship, psychology internship, psychology externship, and psychology post-doctoral fellows. We have a strong collaboration with basic and clinical science in other neuroscience and public health disciplines across several Penn State campuses.

At the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (PPI), located in uptown Harrisburg, PA, we have a full spectrum of care including 89 inpatient beds, partial hospital programs, neuromodulation services, an Advancement in Recovery addiction treatment program, and general and specialty outpatient programs for children and adults. Services through Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center include programs in general and specialty adult and child psychiatry and psychology, adult partial hospital, sleep medicine and behavioral sleep medicine, eating disorders, psychiatry and addiction consultation/ liaison, and integrated care with primary care and medical/surgical specialties.

To better serve the needs of our regional community, we completed a programmatic expansion of our child mental and behavioral health services including operating an inpatient child unit, a partial hospitalization program, outpatient medication management, expanded child therapy services, group therapy, consultation to pediatricians State-wide and a consultation-liaison psychiatry team.

• Ability to practice all aspects of Child Psychiatry in a department with almost 40% of its faculty in the…