MultiCare Health System is seeking a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist for their growing child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient service located at Tacoma General Hospital. This opportunity is a 1.0 FTE. The Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit has 25 beds and houses voluntary and involuntary patients ranging in age from 13 to 18. Expectations for duties on the unit:1. Will be covering a maximum of 7-8 patients which will include 1-2 discharges, 1-2 new admits a day.2. All admissions can be voluntary, or Family initiated or Detained patients3. The legal status is taken care of when patient is initially admitted by intake coordinators and paperwork is reviewed by intake nurse. 4. New Admits will also have a pediatrician to complete the physical examination on the day of admit so if there is any question for any ongoing medical problems, they are available to consult.5. Discharge planning and setting up all done by SW team6. All documentation will be expected to be completed within the 24 hours from seeing patient.7. Team meetings to be attended daily in the morning with the team to review and present all cases.8. Templates for all intakes, communication notes, progress notes and discharge summaries are in place and will be available to all clinician's.Requirements:-Board certified/eligible at time of employment-Licensed in the state of WA by the time of employment-DEA, NPI & prescriptive authority-Current BLS for Healthcare Providers certification by the American Heart AssociationAs a Psychiatrist at MultiCare, you'll enjoy a competitive salary, a full array of benefits, a healthy work/life balance, and a great location which makes this an ideal choice for the physician who is looking to experience the best of Northwest living: from big-city amenities to the pristine beauty and recreational opportunities of the great outdoors.Based in Tacoma, WA, MultiCare Health System is a leading-edge, integrated not-for-profit healthcare organization.About us:MultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization committed to our mission of "partnering for healing and a healthy future". Our 20,000 team members (employees, providers and volunteers) are united by MultiCare's values of respect, integrity, stewardship, excellence, collaboration and kindness.Our roots date back more than a century to the founding of Tacoma's first hospital. Since then, we've grown to become Washington State's largest community-based, locally governed health care system with numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services - including Immediate Clinic, MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care, Pulse Heart Institute and MultiCare Rockwood Clinic. Our system of care also includes eleven hospitals:
Allenmore Hospital (Tacoma)
Auburn Medical Center (Auburn)
Capital Medical Center (Olympia)
Covington Medical Center (Covington)
Deaconess Hospital (Spokane)
Good Samaritan Hospital (Puyallup)
Mary Bridge Children's Hospital (Tacoma)
Navos Behavioral Health Hospital (Seattle)
Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma)
Valley Hospital (Spokane)
Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital(Tacoma)MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach.Heart Association.For more information, please contact Kate Loos at Kate.Loos@multicare.org.
Position Type: Full-Time Regular Full Time Employee: YesPrimary Shift: Day Work Schedule: TBD
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho.
MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network; MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care; Pulse Heart Institute; MultiCare Medical Associates, affiliated physicians; MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and MultiCare Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization.
Eleven hospitals complete the organization: Allenmore Hospital, Auburn Medical Center, Capital Medical Center, Covington Medical Center, Deaconess Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital — the Puget Sound region’s only children’s hospital and state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center for Western Washingt...on — Navos Behavioral Health Hospital, Valley Hospital, Tacoma General Hospital — which is home to the South Puget Sound region’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — and Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital.
Our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness, 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.
MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach.
