Our Psychiatrists provide complex psychiatric medical work in the field of Psychiatry that is involved in the administering of psychiatric services to the inpatient units, departmental divisions, and branch programs.  

• Provide clinical management of adult and/or child inpatient services.
• Provide admission and discharge order for voluntary and involuntary hospitalization.
• Formulate initial treatment and discharge planning and determine the appropriate course of treatment  during hospitalization and follow-up.
• Conducts rounds with inter-disciplinary team of nursing staff and outpatient clinical staff in the treatment and discharge planning of patients.
• Participate in weekly comprehensive treatment planning for new patients or revisions of treatment plan for long term patients.
• Write discharge summary of patients  within 72-hours of discharge.
• Maintain accurate and legible documentation in medical records of patients.

Psychiatric Coverage of Outpatient Services:

• Provide medication management and crisis intervention to outpatients.
• Provide consultation and staffing for GBHWC programs in the community.
• Provide consultation and staffing when needed to outpatient clinical staff in the diagnosis, treatment planning and case management of outpatients.
• Provide proctorship to eligible staff that conducts emergency intake assessments.
• Performs psychiatric evaluations of outpatients; this includes limited psychiatric evaluation of court ordered cases.
• Participate in interdisciplinary treatment team conference with clinical staff.
• Participate in 3-month review of case conference, including assessments and the continual need for services, as well as update of comprehensive treatment planning.

Scope of Services:

• Participates in teaching and in-service training.
• Provide alternated on-call coverage at the GBHWC as scheduled and communicate with staff through agreed methods.
• Provide abbreviated coverage for other Consultant/Staff Psychiatrists when they are on leave.
• Provide community outreach psychiatric services.

Provide Psychiatric administrative duties and responsibilities:

• Advise on the scope of other medical and nursing work in the GBHWC.
• Participate in the planning, development and evaluations of programs and services.
• Participate in Professional Support Unit's working sessions, meetings and presentations.
• Perform on-call duties as needed.