| About the Opportunity Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (Children’s) is seeking a collaborative leader with a strong clinical foundation to serve as a Psychiatrist for a new Clinic and Co-Management opportunity within Children’s Behavioral and Mental Health (BMH). Outpatient Referral Clinic Children’s is working to combat the stigma related to behavioral and mental health while also ensuring our most vulnerable patients receive access to outpatient services that will improve their quality of life and ability to thrive. The goal is to better serve this population of patients and increase the continuity of their care, moving towards a more connected model of “whole-child” care. The Outpatient Referral Clinic will serve as a “hub” for the organization, providing a key point of access for internal providers to refer kids to who require more BMH care than they can obtain at their current place of care within the system. Children’s is working to open “hub” clinic in the Q3 2021. Co-Management Co-management is a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to care that aims to integrate BMH resources into primary care practices while promoting a shared responsibility for the patient’s care. The goal of co-management is to foster partnerships between pediatricians and BMH experts to encourage this collaborative approach while increasing access to BMH care. Our embedded clinicians will support school, behavioral, and emotional challenges, as well as diagnoses such as anxiety and depression requiring further evaluation. This innovative approach requires a pilot phase, planned to begin in the spring of 2021, during which Children’s will implement multiple care models that include a psychologist, licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and care navigator in separate practice locations to subsequently study, measure, adjust in order to expand over to additional primary care practices over time. As a psychiatrist for the Behavioral and Mental Health Outpatient Referral Clinic and Co-Management model for Children’s, the Psychiatrist will participate in a model of care centered around integrated, multidisciplinary services, with seamless collaborations with psychiatry, psychology, social work, medical specialties and other behavioral and mental health disciplines. - The Behavioral and Mental Health Psychiatry services include:
- Inpatient/Hospital Consult Service: The consult psychiatry service covers inpatient and emergency room consult requests at our 3 hospitals and Emergency Departments.
- Outpatient Service: The outpatient service provides psychiatry ambulatory/outpatient care in our multidisciplinary behavioral and mental health clinic(s).
Responsibilities - Clinical responsibilities for 47 weeks/year.
- Clinical Outpatient: a minimum of 4 days per week (8 clinic equivalents) and 1 day (2 clinic equivalents) of indirect patient care and academic activities.
- Clinical Inpatient: a minimum of 10 weeks of inpatient service including weekdays and weekends.
- Clinical caseload includes case management for patients, conducting evaluations, oversight of clinical staff, and supervision of trainees.
- Clinics to be held at the Children’s Behavioral and Mental Health clinic and related Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta facilities.
- Participation in a model of care that addresses psychiatric needs and is centered on integrated, multidisciplinary services, with seamless collaborations with other medical specialties, psychology, social work and other disciplines.
- Participation in Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Children’s Care Network Activities (e.g. quality forum, QI initiatives) that is required for practice to remain member in good standing.
- Demonstrate a pattern of excellence and ongoing contributions in clinical care.
- Education of pre-doctoral interns, post-doctoral fellows, medical residents, and students in child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology, medicine and other health-related professions during usual conduct of care.
- Participation at team conferences and meetings
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