Psychiatrist

Job Description: The job of the Child Psychiatrist specialist is to provide psychiatric oversight to the clinic’s programs and services.

Purpose of the post

• Undertake psychiatric assessments of children and young people referred to the clinic.
• Contribute to child, parenting and family assessments in the clinic
• Contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the clinic
• Supervise and manage the clinic’s multidisciplinary team.
• Provide consultation, teaching, and training to external visitors and allied professionals on occasion
• There are no on call duties for this post.
• The Child Psychiatrist reports to the Director of the BSCBCD
• Specific responsibilities include:
• Psychiatric Evaluations, Assessments and patient Summaries
• Provide Individual and Family or Collateral Psychotherapy
• Review and approve client treatment plans
• Provide psychiatric consultations as member of treatment team
• Participation and lead in treatment team meetings
• Medication management
• Follow-up recommendations on evaluations for clinic clients
• Consultation regarding diagnostic changes
• Calling parents when diagnosis changes
• Additional responsibilities as assigne
• Service Evaluation, Monitoring and Development
• To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the service.

Administration

• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the post-holder’s professional body.
• To head the clinic and the team

Meetings

• To attend and participate in staff and the clinic team meetings.

Package:

• Monthly $3000
• Housing Monthly $500
• Air-Tickets per contract term
• Health Coverage