Addiction Medicine Physician

Associate Medical Director
(specialty in psychiatry and / or addiction medicine)
Escondido, CA
40 hrs week
Competitive Benefits Package

North County Serenity House provides a gender-responsive and trauma-informed environment, using evidence-based and best practices that recognize and account for the role that trauma frequently plays in substance use and criminal histories of women. For clients with co-occurring mental illness, we provide integrated substance use and mental health services which treat both conditions as primary. Our Escondido residential facility serves up to 120 women (with capacity for up to 20 children under 5 years of age) seeking recovery from substance use disorders.

Our North County Serenity House Outpatient Program in Oceanside offers outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use treatment to women and pregnant or parenting female teenagers.

Education and Experience

Required:

A valid and unrestricted California Physician s License (MD or DO) with a specialty in psychiatry and / or addiction medicine
Valid DEA certificate
Experience serving adults with chronic medical conditions and co-occurring severe mentally illness and substance use challenges.
A minimum 5 years post-licensure experience in direct participant care in intensive psychiatric and substance use treatment settings

Desired:
Board Certification in Psychiatry and/or Addiction Medicine
A minimum of 2 years experience as medical director to a psychiatric or substance use treatment program

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