Psychiatrist – Admissions – Variable Hourly – Board Certified (GRHA)
Decatur, GAJob Description:
Under the supervision of a licensed forensic psychologist, providing clinical and forensic psychological services to an inpatient program, an outpatient pre-trial referral program, and a conditional release program for persons acquitted as Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, with the following specialties: Conduct court-ordered evaluations and expert testimony to State, Superior and Juvenile courts, as needed, regarding opinions of competency to stand trial and degree of criminal responsibility (i.e., sanity); Supervises assigned inpatient clinical staff, as able and needed; Conduct violence risk assessments and other clinical or forensic psychological evaluations; Provide group and/or individual psychotherapy with forensic inpatients or outpatients, as needed; and, Other clinical/forensic psychological services as able and needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:
• Certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• Experience in treating persons with serious and persistent mental illnesses, and in providing care as leader and member of an interdisciplinary treatment team
• Experience working with consumers in adult mental health, addictive disease, forensic psychiatry
• Completed Residency in Psychiatry
• Board Certified as a practicing Psychiatrist.