About the Position: This position falls under the Defense Health Agency Atlantic Network at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Directorate of Behavioral Health-Mental Health, providing comprehensive psychiatric medical care to a broad range of patients of all ages with common and complex medical concerns. Care includes, but is not limited to, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric and substance abuse disorders, and serving on boards/committees. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Serve as a recognized board-certified expert in the delivery of Psychiatric medical care to a wide range of patient psychiatric presentations, ages, conditions and complexities. Provide treatment services in any capacity including, inpatient services, consultation liaison services, partial hospitalization, day programs, emergency psychiatric services, tele-psychiatric services and routine and intensive outpatient services. Provide continuing follow-up care for inpatients and outpatients with mental health disorders and for complications related to these disorders and provides psychiatric care for walk-in patients presenting with acute illness. Conduct thorough biopsychosocial evaluations of presenting patients including but not limited to integration of laboratory, radiological and clinical findings. Prescribe appropriate pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment. Make fitness and suitability for duty and other administrative determinations. Determine and provide mental health assessments of fitness and suitability for duty and deployments of service members based on psychiatric clinical assessment. Collaborate with physicians in other medical specialties on cases involving complicated and multifaceted problems. Provide professional consultation, supervision, and collaborative medical support to other professional staff within the hospital and across other mental health clinics. Serve as member of the professional medical staff and/ or faculty to provide advisory and consultative services on various meetings, committees, conferences, and/ or boards. Develop medical policy, guidance, and standard of care determinations within the Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) specific to Psychiatric medical care. Participate in continuing education programs to update and maintain skills, and attend/or participate in nationally recognized conferences as requested.

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