Psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

PrimeCare Medical, Inc. (PCM) has been in operation since 1986. We're a privately owned, physician-founded, nationally accredited correctional healthcare practice.

PCM provides comprehensive medical and mental health care services to over 80 county jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers throughout 5 different states in the Northeastern US (PA, MD, FL, NY, & NH).

Correctional medicine is a unique, challenging, and exciting opportunity for today's mental health professional in that it provides the ability to truly utilize all of your learned skills and knowledge on a daily basis. Correctional mental health care is the perfect hybrid of outpatient, inpatient, and addiction psychiatry; serving an underserved, extremely diverse, and very appreciative patient population.

We are currently looking for an on-site, full-time psychiatrist to join our team and share their time weekly at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville, PA and the Chester County Prison in West Chester, PA.

This position requires 40 hours of on-site psychiatric care each week, Monday to Friday, during normal business hours (i.e., 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM).

We are offering a $15,000 sign-on bonus for this full-time position!

Job Description

• Provide service to the inmate/patient population while utilizing current, acceptable standards of psychiatric practice.
• Assume responsibility for clinical management of the mental health program in accordance with NCCHC/ACA Standards, as well as PCM policies and procedures.
• Provide psychiatric treatment to confined inmates/patients (i.e., restricted housing, behavioral units, etc.).
• Provide psychiatric consultation to all professionals (i.e., physicians/nursing) within the unit.
• Oversee and supervise all psychiatric clinical services provided.
• Ensure complete, accurate and timely psychiatric entries are made for each inmate/patient contact.
• Available for consultation and/or emergency psychiatric coverage.
• Work collaboratively and supervise clinical activities of fellow psychologists and medical staff while on duty.
• Evaluate all inmates/patients referred with mental health concerns for presence or absence of mental illness.
• Refer inmates/patients as necessary to appropriate psychiatric facilities when appropriate.
• Work collaboratively with pharmacy to evaluate and approve all medications and other medicinal preparations that comprise the facility formulary.
• Establish and monitor standards of care provided by physicians, psychologists, and nurses in accordance with NCCHC/ACA and accepted psychiatric standards.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Medicine or Osteopathic Medicine, specialty in Psychiatry.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible.
• Licensed to practice Psychiatry within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
• Maintain current DEA number and be eligible to prescribe medications in Pennsylvania.
• Maintain current Driver's License.

Benefits

• Salaries are negotiable and commensurate based on experience. Annual salary range is $250,000.00 - $320,000.00.
• Family health care offered (i.e., medical/prescription/dental/vision).
• Company-paid life insurance provided & additional insurance benefits offered.
• Retirement benefits offered (i.e., 401k with discretionary company match).
• Company-paid liability insurance (including tail coverage) provided.
• Generous PTO package provided. Paid time off will accrue for a maximum accrual of twenty (20) days (or 160 hours) per year. In addition, you will also receive six (6) floating holidays, pro-rated within your first year of employment as dictated by your effective hire date.
• Annual licensure reimbursement offered and more!