Psychiatry, Full Time Psychiatrist

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Christopher's Hospital for Children - Tower Health summary: The Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at St.
Christopher’s Hospital for Children provides outpatient psychiatric care, supports inpatient service coverage, and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams in a pediatric academic medical center.
The role involves clinical service, education, program development, and community-based behavioral health expansion.
Candidates must be board-certified or board-eligible psychiatrists with a focus on culturally responsive and patient-centered care for children and adolescents.
Christopher’s Hospital for Children – Child/Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatrist Christopher's Hospital for Children is seeking a compassionate, board-certified or board-eligible Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist to join our growing division of behavioral health.
The child and adolescent psychiatrist will provide direct patient care, ensure the highest quality of clinical services, collaborate with other clinical teams in our children’s hospital and participate in education and teaching activities within our large urban pediatric hospital.
Preferred candidates will have experience in community-based or outpatient settings and a collaborative approach to working with medical students, residents, psychologists, social workers, therapists, staff, community-based organizations, families, and schools.
As our program expands, we value candidates who are adaptable and eager to help develop workflows and processes that will support the needs of the department and the children and families we serve including collaborating on coverages of our inpatient service in collaboration with other child and adolescent psychiatrists.
Provide direct outpatient clinical services to children, adolescents, and their families Provide support for inpatient coverage with collaboration and working with the Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Position housed within the Department of Pediatrics at St.
Christopher’s Hospital for Children, with a faculty appointment through Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM).
Join a collaborative team of physicians, therapists, community partners, psychologists, behavior analysts, medical assistant, and administrative support team.
Collaborate with pediatric primary care and specialty care teams to provide consultations and supporting integrated care delivery with the potential future opportunity to embed within a primary/specialty care team.
Play a key role in shaping an onsite outpatient psychiatric clinic, with the potential for growth, offering a unique leadership opportunity for candidates with interest in program development and expanding community-based behavioral health services.
Opportunity to support children and adolescent psychiatry fellow, psychiatric residents, pediatric residents, medical residents (neurology) psychology resident, and other trainees across the hospital through supervision, didactic and clinical education.
Opportunities for education, research, quality improvement and working with our medical team and physicians for ongoing professional development in the Department of Pediatrics and Drexel University College of Medicine.
Report to the Chair of Pediatrics and Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St.
Christopher’s Hospital for Children.
Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance Retirement savings plan with employer automatic contribution and employer match.
Commuter Benefits- tax-free transit or parking Relocation assistance Supportive health system to advance goals Putting Kids and Families First Since 1875 Christopher's Hospital for Children's nationally recognized programs and pediatric specialists provide exceptional care to children from throughout the Greater Philadelphia area and around the world.
Christopher's Hospital for Children is to provide quality pediatric services in a caring, progressive environment.
Christopher's Hospital is committed to quality through teamwork, technology and service in a child-friendly, family-oriented environment.
For more than 100 years, our hospital has served children, families, and communities in Greater Philadelphia and surrounding communities.Caring for children is our passion.
We’re an academic medical center, which means we bring you the latest in diagnostics, treatments, and innovations — all tailored specifically to the needs of your child.
Through our research, academics, and clinical care, children and families depend on the leading-edge care found only at an academic medical center.
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Its network includes Reading Hospital, Phoenixville Hospital, Pottstown Hospital, and St.
Christopher's Hospital for Children (in partnership with Drexel University).
Committed to academic medicine and training, Tower Health offers various programs, including residency and fellowship programs, the Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health, and the Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences.
Additionally, the system provides a wide range of healthcare services, such as Reading Hospital Rehabilitation at Wyomissing, home healthcare via Tower Health at Home, TowerDirect ambulance and emergency response, Tower Health Medical Group, Tower Health Providers (a clinically integrated network), and Tower Health Urgent Care facilities across its service area.
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