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Job Summary

Provides general addiction and psychiatric care throughout Denver Health Hospital, which includes general medical floors, intensive care units, Ob/Gyn, pediatric unit, psychiatric units, and child & adolescent psychiatric unit. Diagnose and treat children and adults, including patients with complex and co-occurring medical, psychiatric and substance use disorders.  Provides expert assessment and clinical care in one or more of these areas and provides teaching and scholarly work in their area of expertise.  The majority of patients seen will have an substance use disorder (80%), and some will have a co-occurring psychiatric disorder (20%). The physician will have responsibility for clinical education of various trainees and will enjoy the benefits of a hospitalist flex schedule.

Essential Functions:

• Obtains relevant medical histories, makes appropriate diagnoses, implements and directs effective addiction and psychiatric treatments including during high-risk and/or life-threatening conditions including during pregnancy and peri-partum periods. Consults with medical providers in the care of patients with psychiatric and substance use disorder . (70%)
• Assesses and mitigates the risk of suicide or violence among patients at risk due to psychiatric illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar, depressive, anxiety, substance use disorders, and personality disorders. (10%)
• Teaches medical students and advanced trainees from other health disciplines including in nationally accredited training programs. (10%)
• Applies treatment statutes for involuntary psychiatric and/or substance use disorder treatments. Interprets the results of relevant laboratory and imagining studies and applies them to the diagnosis and treatment of addiction and psychiatric symptoms. (10%)

Education:

• Doctorate Degree Graduate of an accredited medical school. Required

Licenses:

• MD or DO-Physician - State Medical Board Required and
• BLS-Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) - AHA - American Heart Association Required
• Certification in Addiction Psychiatry or Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Preferred, but Not Required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 1. Knowledge of and ability to apply professional medical principles, procedures and techniques.
  
  2. Thorough knowledge of pharmacological agents used in patient treatment.
  
  3. Able to effectively manage and direct medical staff support activities while providing quality medical care.
  
  4. Able to receive detailed information through oral communications; express or exchange ideas by verbal communications.
  
  5. Excellent written and verbal communications, listening, and social skills.
  
  6. Able to interact effectively with people of varied educational, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, skill levels and value systems.
  
  7. Performs in a tactful and professional manner.
  
  8. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
  
  9. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals

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Benefits

• Competitive pay

• Outstanding benefits

• Education opportunities

• Shared leadership and advancement opportunity

• State-of-the-art facilities

• Immediate retirement plan matching

• Professional clinical advancement program

• Participation in evidence-based projects

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer

• National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

• Respect

• Belonging

• Accountability

• Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.

Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver's 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.

As Colorado's primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.

Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.

We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).

Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For more about our commitment to diversity visit: https://www.denverhealth.org/for-professionals/careers/diversity-and-inclusion

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About Denver Health

Take your career to the next level at Denver Health, where we offer a robust benefits package and endless opportunities for growth. Denver Health is a nationally-ranked, locally-trusted, premier healthcare institution located in the heart of Denver, Colorado.Twenty-five percent of all Denver residents, or approximately 150,000 individuals, receive their health care here. We are known as an integrated health care system that encompasses multidisciplinary academic specialties, a community health system, a level I adult trauma center, pediatric emergency and urgent care center home to Denver Public Health and many of the nation's leaders in medicine.Denver Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Denver Health we pride ourselves on our commitment to diversity. Equal opportunity is a fundamental principle of Denver Health. As an equal opportunity employer, Denver Health is committed to recruit, hire, promote and administer all human resource actions in a non-discriminatory manner. Denver Health is committed to providing equal opportunities in all business practices and to all persons regardless of age, race, color, national origin, genetic information, religion, sex, pregnancy, disab...ility, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status or veteran status (collectively “protected status”). Denver Health strives to maintain a work environment that is free from unlawful harassment and discrimination and will not tolerate any such conduct by employees or directed at employees within the scope of their employment. Read the full Human Resources Employee Principles and Practices policy.

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