**Federal Employment**
Duties:Serve as a General Psychiatrist.Assess and resolve complex social, economic and psychosocial problems that may impact on service members and their families medical treatment as outpatients by providing direct casework services, to include screening, assessment, treatment, referral, consultation and education. Assess and resolve complex social, economic and psychosocial problems that may impact on service members and their families medical treatment as inpatients or while the service member is being evaluated for medical discharge from the service by providing direct casework services, to include screening, assessment, referral, consultation and education. Conduct psychosocial evaluations and provide therapeutic interventions including medication management. Evaluate the impact of diagnosis or lack of diagnosis with unexplained chronic symptoms on individual and family systems as well as assess patients functioning within work, family and routines of daily living and identify areas needing continued support, resources, and treatment in order to assist patients.Provide services to high-risk populations including service members pending medical discharge due to physical and or behavioral health injuries/illnesses, service members who were wounded as a result of their military duties, and the families of service members KIA.Support local and remote Soldier Readiness Processing (SRP) events that prepare large numbers of service members for mobilization, deployment, demobilization and redeployment in clinical and non-clinical settings. This support shall include provision of behavioral health clinical care management services, screening, evaluation and referrals for Soldiers who report deployment-related symptoms on Pre-Deployment Health Assessment (DD Form 2795), Post Deployment Health Assessment (DD Form 2796), Post Deployment Health Reassessment (DD Form 2900) or other screening forms, assistance with administrative requirements for transfer from active to reserve status and other administrative requirements. The SRP events may occur as frequently as bi-weekly or as infrequently as semi-annually.Develop, implement, and maintain a partnership with patients, other contract service providers and community resources as applicable. The contract service provider shall develop a comprehensive treatment care plan in accordance with behavioral health care standards for patients and their families. Coordinate services for those patients who move out of the region to ensure continuity of care. They shall facilitate transfer of the case to local behavioral health care case management resources, as appropriate.Advocate for patients as needed, and assist with negotiating systems in obtaining appropriate referrals. Some of these referrals may include communicating with physicians, nurses, behavioral health professionals, prevention specialists, family members, etc. Other referrals may be acquiring resources and services dealing with financial benefits and housing issues including assisting with completing proper paperwork.Coordinate and assist installation community agencies and the MTF in the referral process, to provide re-integration training and services for Soldiers returned from deployment. Provider shall educate patients, their families, commanders and health care staff on community resources including information and referral for financial, housing, educational, employment and childcare resources as required by patients needs assessment.Qualifications:Education: Required to hold a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) degree from an accredited graduate school of Medicine. The physician must have completed psychiatric residency training program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The physician must be Board Eligible or Board Certified in Psychiatry. Licensure/Certification/Registration: Must have and maintain a current license to practice Medicine in any one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands that allows for the independent practice of clinical services. This license must be current (not revoked, suspended, or lapsed in registration), valid (the issuing authority accepts and considers QA information (i.e. practitioner professional performance and conduct in determining continued licenses)), and unrestricted (not subject to restriction pertaining to the scope, location, or type of practice ordinarily granted to other applicants for similar licenses in granting jurisdiction). Experience: A minimum of one year in the practice of psychiatry, preferably in a Government setting such as a DOD or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) MTF. Basic Life Support Training (BLS)