Psychiatrist Full-time
Squirrel Hill Health CenterMake a Difference in Healthcare
Squirrel Hill Health Center (SHHC), a comprehensive primary healthcare center established in 2006, is seeking a dedicated Psychiatrist to join our interdisciplinary primary care/mental health team. SHHC provides high-quality care to everyone in our community, regardless of income level or insurance status, with a special concern for religious beliefs, ethnic and cultural background, language spoken, age, sex, and disability status. Our services include primary and preventive medical care, mental and behavioral health services, dental care, and case management. As a Participating Provider with Pennsylvania’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, we complete initial health screenings for newly arriving refugees in Pittsburgh and provide ongoing integrated care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Evaluate, treat, and assist patients in overcoming mental health, social/emotional, and economic barriers.
- Provide integrated mental and behavioral health services, including medication management and therapy sessions.
- Collaborate with SHHC clinicians and behavioral health staff to ensure high-quality patient care.
- Maintain accurate and prompt documentation in the Electronic Medical Record.
- Supervise SHHC’s licensed clinical social worker and other behavioral health staff.
- Provides supervision for advance practice psychiatric provider as necessary.
- Participate in creating a smoothly functioning mental/behavioral health team.
- Provide supervision and serve as a resource for SHHC management and staff.
Essential Functions:
- Elicit and record patient mental health history.
- Assess and create appropriate treatment plans.
- Prescribe and monitor medications.
- Ensure patient confidentiality.
- Make house and emergency calls as needed.
- Be available to patients and clinicians by phone during non-scheduled hours.
- Prepare and sign all necessary forms for patient care and billing within three working days.
Minimum Qualifications:
- MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.
- Completion of a 3-year residency program in psychiatry.
- Board certification in psychiatry.
- Unrestricted license to practice medicine in Pennsylvania or willingness to obtain.
- Participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs or willingness to obtain.
- Enrollment in required managed care and insurance contracts or willingness to obtain.
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, planning, and organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Computer proficiency.
- BLS certification.
- Knowledge of a second language preferred.
- Dedication to providing high-quality health care to all patients.
- Willingness to receive and remain current with all CDC recommended vaccines.
Work Environment:
- Hybrid of telehealth and in-person visits, subject to change based on patient or SHHC needs.
To Apply: View us online at www.squirrelhillhealthcenter.org
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SHHC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SHHC does not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices to include hiring, transferring and promotion practices on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, handicap, disability, religion, religious creed, ancestry, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.