Employer: Catholic Community Services
Job Type: Full Time, Part Time
Location: Western Washington State

Job Description:

Our Adolescent Psychiatrist who provides psychiatric/medical direction and consultation, as well as direct psychiatric services to youths of Family Behavioral Health. This role works in collaboration with program managers and clinical supervisors in all services to ensure quality psychiatric care of consumers and quality clinical consultation and training to staff. The successful candidate will collaborate with community partners, colleagues, and families to provide family-centered, strengths-based, individualized and tailored care to consumer of CCS services.

Job Duties:

• Conducts psychiatric assessment of Consumers, including both children and parents/guardians who are being served by the program.
• Participates in regular intervention reviews and ongoing treatment planning for all consumers.
• Meets regularly and as needed with consumers for medication monitoring/management; consults with families as appropriate.
• Provides regular psychiatric/medical consultation and direction to clinical staff.
• Evaluates medication needs, prescribes, and supervises ongoing medication needs for all consumers (and family members as needed).
• Participates in community collaborations and planning efforts on behalf of consumers. Consults regularly with leadership around service needs.
• Completes all paperwork and record keeping required of position.
• Provides after-hours, on-call response as needed.
• Provides periodic in-service training to staff regarding psychiatric/medical and clinical issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience/Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills:

• WA licensure and DEA certificate in good standing; ability to meet necessary privileging and credentialing criteria (JCAHO and NCQA).
• BC/BE as Adolescent Psychiatrist.
• Prefer 2 years’ experience working with children and families in an inpatient/outpatient clinical setting with strong knowledge of child, adolescent and family development.
• Demonstrated competence in assessment, diagnosis, medication evaluation and current, sound prescriptive practices for seriously disturbed children and adults.
• Commitment to strengths-based, family-centered, and individualized and tailored clinical approaches.
• Ability to understand and work with multiple, client-serving systems (mental health, child welfare, education, juvenile justice/courts, public health, social services) and commitment to working collaboratively with staff of diverse backgrounds, training and levels of experience.
• Must successfully pass required background clearances prior to an offer of employment.

How to Apply:

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Contact Information: 

Name: Karla Lacktorin
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 253-325-2864