Psychiatrist: Adult Consultation Liaison

MultiCare Health System; Washington, Puyallup (District of Columbia, WA); On-site; USD 270,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare network dedicated to providing innovative psychiatric consultation services. This exciting role offers the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team across multiple locations, focusing on patient care in acute settings. Enjoy a collaborative environment while also engaging in teaching opportunities within a new psychiatry residency program. With a commitment to community health and well-being, this position promises both professional growth and a chance to make a significant impact in the field of behavioral health.

Benefits

Flexible schedules

Opportunities for growth

Collaborative work environment

Protected time for teaching duties

Qualifications

• Completion of accredited psychiatry residency and board certification required.
• Experience in consultation-liaison psychiatry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead psychiatric consultation-liaison services in acute care settings.
• Provide assessments, diagnostics, and treatment recommendations.

Skills

Psychiatric Consultation

Patient Assessment

Treatment Recommendations

Collaboration

Education

ACGME or AOA accredited adult psychiatry residency

ABPN board certification in psychiatry

ACGME accredited consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship

Job description

You Belong Here.

At MultiCare, we strive to offer a true sense of belonging for all our employees. Across our healthcare network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers, opportunities for growth, safe workplaces, and flexible schedules. We are connected by our mission - partnering and healing for a healthy future - and dedicated to the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

The Opportunity:

MultiCare is seeking candidates to participate in the development and deployment of an innovative hub-and-spoke consultation model and teaching service. We are deploying a central hub of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry team members to provide consult services through onsite, telepsychiatry, and telephonic interventions. The use of the hub-and-spoke delivery design sets the stage for MultiCare to cast a vital behavioral health lifeline to our network of hospitals.

This 1.0 FTE (Monday - Friday, 8 am - 5 pm, no after-hours or weekend call) combined consult liaison psychiatrist & faculty role will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide service to 5 locations in the MultiCare Puget Sound region. The goal is to offer a collaborative work environment while serving a broad variety of patients in various inpatient and emergency department settings. The qualified candidate would lead the care team in providing psychiatric consultation-liaison services for patients in the acute care setting and emergency departments through assessments, diagnostics, consultations, and treatment recommendations. There will also be teaching opportunities and protected time provided for faculty duties related to teaching psychiatry residents in a new psychiatry residency training program.

Additional Requirements:

• Completion of ACGME or AOA accredited adult psychiatry residency
• Current ABPN board certification in psychiatry
• Completion of ACGME accredited consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship is a plus

FTE: 1.0, Shift: M-F 8-5, Schedule: Day

Starting Compensation Range: $270,633-$300,703

Contact Kate Loos at [e-mail] for more information.

Position Summary

Our Values

As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration, Kindness, and Joy. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.

Why MultiCare?

• Belonging: We work to create a true sense of belonging for all our caregivers
• Mission-driven: We are dedicated to our mission of partnering for healing and a healthy future and the patients and communities we serve
• Market leadership: Washington state's largest community-based, locally governed health system
• Employee-centric: Named Forbes "America's Best Employers by State" in 2023
• Technology: "Most Wired" health care system 15 years in a row
• Leading research: MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, 40 years of ground-breaking, clinical, and health services research in our communities
• Lifestyle: Live and work in the Pacific Northwest - offering breathtaking water, mountains, and forests at every turn.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.