Medical Director - Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Walden Behavioral Care

Dedham, MA

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• Works alongside Walden management and staff to support specialized eating disorder care within our residential and inpatient programs
• Responsible for admission orders and evaluations
• Responsible for admitting or denying admissions
• Coverage of admissions and supervision of APRN in medical director’s absence.
• Accountable for assigned patients and is responsible for promoting and enhancing professional psychiatric practice in the residential and inpatient unit
• Provides integrative care including consultation and recommendation for medications, dietary changes, supplementation, healthy lifestyle counseling, and other integrative medicine approaches
• Communicates with other providers to ensure healthcare continuity and coordination
• Functions as part of an interdisciplinary integrative medicine team and participates in case conferencing as needed.
• Promotes patient care consistent with the philosophy and objectives of Walden Behavioral Care

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited MD program.
• Adult Psychiatry Residency completed from an accredited institution.

Experience:

• Knowledge and skills compatible to an individual with board certification in Psychiatry
• Minimum of 2 years’ prior relevant psychiatric experience
• Experience with adults, children and adolescents, strongly preferred

Licensure/Certification:

• Licensed in the state of MA in Psychiatry (MD/DO)
• Board eligible/Board certified in Psychiatry

Knowledge:

• Must possess knowledge of general and psychiatric processes, therapeutic relationships and processes, age specific growth and development, limit setting, behavior and crisis management.
• For the purposes of treatment and referral, must be knowledgeable about a broad range of integrative medicine approaches and open to their application as warranted by specific patient need.