Amazing Psychiatrist Opportunity in Durham/Raleigh, North Carolina

Durham VA Health Care System

The Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System is seeking a full-time Psychiatrist to join our dynamic team in Durham or Raleigh!

Duties:

The psychiatrist will provide psychiatric evaluations, follow up care and medication management. The psychiatrist will be fully qualified, credentialed and privileged to function in the clinical role assigned. This individual is delegated the authority and responsibility to assume clinical, consultative, educational and administrative duties and assignments related to the care of mental health outpatients. The psychiatrist must be skilled in general outpatient psychiatry, including diagnostic evaluations, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. He/she should be competent in the management of individuals with a broad range of clinical symptoms, including post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, substance use disorders, and mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders. The psychiatrist will serve as a collaborative member of a multidisciplinary team in managing an outpatient panel. The position may include administrative responsibilities, teaching and supervising students and residents as applicable.

Clinical:

• The primary focus of practice is the clinical management of patients assigned.
• Maintain effective relationships with other team members to determine and meet the social, environmental, economic and psychological needs of the patient.
• Participates as a key member of the patient care team to formulate treatment plans and monitor patient progress. Involvement with both, psychiatric and medical treatments.
• Utilizes and promotes approved standards of care, procedures, methods, techniques, safety precautions, and protocols in their application to treatment and management of acute and chronic mental illnesses for psychiatric outpatients.
• Provides and/or recommends medication management and individual and group psychotherapies as clinically indicated. Primary treatment modality will be medication management.
• Collaborates with other health care system resources to insure continuity of care.
• Keeps abreast of the latest trends, skills, procedures, equipment and protocols relevant to the care of patients.
• Facilitates the care of patients as well as their entry and exit from various health care systems by establishing and maintaining liaison with a variety of medical professionals and associated staff.
• Recording pertinent findings, impressions and plan of care in the patient's medical record for all patient encounters. This will generally be in the form of diagnostic interviews for new patients and progress notes for existing patients.
• Order laboratory tests, imaging studies, and psychological tests, and utilize the results in clinical decision-making.
• Provides coverage when peer is absent from the clinic to maintain continuity of clinical services.
• Other clinical duties as assigned by the supervising physician.

Administrative/Education:

• Promotes and participates in the delivery of patient and family health care education.
• Attends conferences and committee meetings as assigned by the supervising physician.
• Participates, directs, and provides opportunities for staff development through in-service education if requested.
• Facilitates responses/actions to patient inquires, including forms, regarding care and treatment received.
• Assures self-development responsibilities and maintains current knowledge of trends in the management of patients. Completes educational and training requirements in a timely manner
• Supervises assigned trainees and provides them with meaningful educational experiences.
• Other administrative and/or educational duties as assigned by the supervising physician.

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized for highly qualified applicants.
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment)

About the Durham VA Health Care System

Since 1953, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been improving the health of the men and women who have so proudly served our nation. We consider it our privilege to serve your healthcare needs in any way we can. Services are available to more than 200,000 Veterans living in a 27-county area of central and eastern North Carolina.

Community-Based Outpatient Clinics 

In addition to our main facility in Durham, we offer services in three community-based outpatient clinics. These clinics are located in —

Raleigh, North Carolina
Greenville, North Carolina
Morehead City, North Carolina 

Paid Time Off:

• 26 Days paid annual (vacation/personal) leave
• 13 Days paid sick leave each year with no limit on accumulation
• 11 paid Federal holidays per year
• 5 Days paid absence to attend approved CME courses

Insurance:

• Health Insurance: VA employees have an outstanding number of health insurance plans from which to choose (premiums are partially paid by VA) Lifetime Healthcare Insurance options available
• Dental & Vision: Our insurance options also include exceptional vision and dental plans (premiums are partially paid by VA)
• VA employees have the option to use Flexible Spending Accounts, which allow you to use tax-free dollars to pay for medical, dental, and vision care expenses that are not reimbursed by your health insurance plan
• Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government
• Long-term care insurance is available as an option

Federal Retirement Plan:

• VA employees are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits, 2) FERS-RAE basic benefits (pension), and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan
• How is the pension funded? VA employees automatically contribute 4.4% of their salary each pay period and the VA contributes 12.2% of the employee’s salary each pay period for a total annual contribution percentage equal to 16.6% of the employee’s salary
• Similar to the 401(k) savings plans widely available in the private sector, the TSP allows employees to tax defer a portion of their income each year, subject to the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. For calendar year 2020, employees under the age of 50 may contribute up to $19,500, while those over age 50 are eligible to make catch-up contributions that allow them to defer up to $25,500.
• The Federal Government also provides an automatic basic contribution (1% of salary) and up to 4% of salary in matching contributions, depending on the amount of the employee contribution
• For retired military personnel, these benefits are in addition to full monthly retirement pay or pension
• In addition to FERS, VA provides health care insurance coverage for retired personnel
• Disability Retirement
• Employees are vested in a federal pension after only 5 years service

In the late 1860s, Washington Duke left the Confederate army and walked 137 miles back to his farm in Durham, where he took up life again as a tobacco farmer. That first year, he started grinding and packaging the crop to sell in small packets. In 1880, he decided that there was a future in cigarettes -- then a new idea -- and, along with his three sons, set to work to manufacture them on a small scale. By 1890, the family had formed the American Tobacco Company, and a legendary American manufacturing empire was underway.
Durham, a small village when Duke returned, blossomed into an industrial city, taking its commercial life from the "golden weed." And it still does. From September until the end of December, tobacco warehouses ring with the chants of auctioneers moving from one batch of the cured tobacco to the next, followed by buyers who indicate their bids with nods or hand signals.

Even Duke University, the cultural heart of Durham, owes its life's breath to tobacco. The university was quiet little Trinity College until national and international prominence came with a Duke family endowment of $40 million in 1924. Along with a change in name, the university gained a new West Campus, complete with massive Gothic structures of stone, flagstone walks, and box hedges. Its medical center is one of the most highly respected in the world.