Job Title: Outpatient Client Psychiatrist
Unit: Outpatient Services
Annual Salary Range:
$185,000 - $195,000 for Board Certified
Location of Position:
250 North Avenue, Athens, GA 30601
Posting Date: December 9, 2015
Application Deadline Date: Until filled
Outpatient Client Psychiatrist
Position Summary
Outpatient Client Psychiatrists provide direct clinical care to clients who may have mental health conditions or disorders.
They diagnose and treat mental illness through a combination of methods including personal counseling and helping
clients find solutions in behavioral patterns, through psychoanalysis, prescribing medication to correct any
chemical/neurological imbalances, and by recommending hospitalization. Psychiatrists help clients with finding solutions.
Duties and Responsibilities
Day-to-day duties include:
 Provide psychiatric initial evaluation, ongoing assessments, or crisis assessments.
 Provide patient education on diagnosis, medication, monitoring response to treatment and side effects of
medication, informed consent, treatment adherence, and other topics as individualized for the patient
 Provides sufficient documentation in the medical record to reflect the diagnosis, treatment goals, interventions
and standards of the agency to meet requirements of state and federal funding entities.
 Documents and signs assessments, progress notes, and medication or lab orders within timeframes established by
ABHS.
 Signs needed orders for service (OFS) prior to initiation of services.
 Reviews individual service plan of clients and signs when service plan addresses the goals and treatment
interventions appropriate for the client.
 Prescribes appropriate medication and obtains baseline metabolic indices as indicated and in accordance with
ABHS standards of care and all applicable professional, state and federal standards.
 Prescribes monitors, modifies, and/or discontinues medications as indicated and documents medical necessity
and these processes in the medical record of client.
 Orders medical assessments, consultations, referrals, medications and laboratory tests as indicated for patients.
 If serving as Officer of the Day, signs MICP and Orders for Service within designated timeframe established by
ABHS; responds to nursing and clinician inquiries.
 Serves as delegating physician for (and as determined) nurse practitioners or clinical nurse specialists
 Participates in the Medical Staff peer review/documentation/utilization review processes and maintains agencyestablished targeted outcomes
 Participates, as indicated, in medical education for healthcare students in training programs in Medicine, Nurse
Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Pharmacy, Nursing, Medical Assisting, and other healthcare professionals as
determined by organization’s clinical agreements
 Provides ongoing clinical and administrative supervision, and performance-evaluations of staff, particularly, nurses
 Responds to communications from Medical Services Office as needed and indicated in a timely manner
 Respond to phone inquiries of patients and pharmacies
 Attends monthly Medical Staff meetings as indicated
 Attend all required Agency meetings and trainings
 May be shadowed by peers on the job
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Active Physician license in the state of Georgia. Valid Georgia driver’s license.
Minimum Qualifications
Graduate from a medical school recognized by AND an active Physician license granted by the Georgia composite state
board of medical examiners. Licensure to practice medicine at a state institution OR in the state of Georgia as provided by
state law is required.
Preferred Qualifications
Meet the minimum qualifications plus at least 2 years of post-licensure psychiatric experience in multidisciplinary mental
health setting and certification(s) in one or all of the following specialties: General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry.
TO APPLY
Applications must be received by the deadline date to be considered. Apply for the available position by
submitting your resume to recruiter@advantagebhs.org. Once your resume is considered, you will be asked to
complete the State Application.
State application can be found at http://www.advantagebhs.org/employee-forms.cms.
Advantage Behavioral Health Systems
Human Resource Recruiter
250 North Avenue, Athens, Georgia 30601
Applicants are subject to criminal records, drug screening, employment, and/or background checks.
(Internal) This announcement is ONLY open to employees of Advantage Behavioral Health Systems
Advantage Behavioral Health Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer