• Job Reference Id:  ORD-210123-PhD-GA
• Title:  PhD
• Dates Needed:  ASAP - ongoing
• Shift Type:  Day Shift
• Assignment Type:  Outpatient
• Call Required:  No
• Board Certification Required:  No
• Job Duration:  Locums

The outpatient facility operates as a specialized psychiatric practice focused on comprehensive mental health treatment. The facility maintains an integrated behavioral health team approach with consistent referral patterns from in-house Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists. The practice emphasizes evidence-based treatment modalities and serves patients across all age groups with various mental health conditions.

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The clinician will provide comprehensive psychological services in an outpatient psychiatry practice focused on children, adolescents, and adults. Primary responsibilities include conducting diagnostic evaluations, ADHD assessments, and psychological testing to support treatment planning while receiving consistent referrals from an in-house Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. The clinician will collaborate with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners in an integrated behavioral health team and provide evidence-based therapy including CBT, trauma-informed care, and supportive therapy. The position requires managing cases involving depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma-related disorders, adjustment disorders, mood disorders, and treatment-resistant depression with a caseload of 6-8 patients per day depending on evaluation versus therapy schedule.

• Case Load/PPD:  6-8 depending on evaluation vs therapy schedule
• Support Staff:  Psychiatrists, Therapists, Operations Manager and Scheduling staff
• Patient Population:  All Ages
• Location Type:  On-Site
• Prescriptive Authority Required:  No
• Government:  No
• Shift Hours:  Part time (20 hours)
• Cases Treated:  Depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma-related disorders, adjustment disorders, mood disorders, treatment-resistant depression
• Average Length of Stay:  Not applicable
• Census:  Not applicable
• Med Checks/Follow-up per day:  45-60 min
• Initi
  
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