Psychiatry – Tele Consult Service for Hospital / Emergency Job Listing at Essentia Health in Duluth, MN (Job ID 3523034-2024-05-21)

Description

About the position:

• Our ideal candidate would be a strong team player, desiring .8 FTE.
• 7-day, service coverage model
• Call is 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Overnight and weekend call is shared by the physician pool.
• Telehealth or could be in-person (up to candidate)
• Telehealth to critical access hospitals in area
• Managing the care of psychiatric patients in the emergency department, including leading care rounds, triage, and evaluation
• Consultation to Level 1 Trauma Center

About our Behavioral Health Team:

• Join a group of 9 adult and 4 child and adolescent psychiatrists as part of a Behavioral Health Care Team. Other members of the team include doctoral level psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychotherapists, RN's, and clinical assistants. The Behavioral Health Division provides a spectrum of care for children and adults, including inpatient psychiatric care, consult-liaison, and emergency psychiatry, ECT procedures (not providing at the current time but the goal is to start again), intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization services, and an outpatient behavioral health clinic. The Division also includes Health Psychology doctorate and master's level psychologists.
• The Behavioral Health Department provides a spectrum of care for children and adults, including inpatient psychiatric care, consult-liaison and emergency psychiatry, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization services, and an outpatient behavioral health clinic.
• Integrated pharmacist team includes a Hospitalist and Pharmacist
• Essentia Health Duluth hospital: Adult in-patient unit has 44 beds; Child/Adolescent inpatient unit has 16 beds.

Requirements:

• BC/BE Psychiatry
• Interest in ECT would be a plus.

Location:

• Duluth, MN – a harbor city which is located at the westernmost tip of beautiful Lake Superior
• 150 miles north of the metropolitan Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul
• Duluth city population: 86,000; Regional service area: 460,000