Psychiatrist

Location:

Carpenter House - Staten Island, NY 10301

Position Type:
Part Time

Education Level: PhD

Salary Range: $88,740.00 - $ Salary

Job Shift: Day

The Psychiatrist provided professional psychiatric evaluations, medication prescription and management, brief therapy, and street outreach too hard to reach, mentally ill, chemically abusing (MICA) and severely and persistently ill (SPMI) homeless clients.

The Psychiatrist performs any duties as required to meet the needs of the program and the clients we serve.

• The psychiatrist assesses, evaluates and diagnoses all clients with regard to their mental status for the purposes of admittance to Carpenter House.
• The psychiatrist prescribes, manages and reviews medication.
• The psychiatrist engages clients in brief therapy as appropriate.
• The psychiatrist completes all paperwork used to obtained client entitlements including but not limited to, SSI, SSD, VESISD, NY-NY.
• The psychiatrist completes all paperwork necessary to the maintenance of client charts, for the purposes of internal and external audits and recordkeeping.
• The psychiatrist provides formal and informal, on-going staff training and functioning as a team member, participates in weekly clinical staff meetings.
• The psychiatrist is available by pager for emergency consultation on a 24-hour basis.