Psychiatric - Mental Health Physician

Full-Time Adult Inpatient Psychiatrist Locum Tenens Job in the Greater Los Angeles, California Area

Details/Requirements:
Need starts ASAP and ongoing for onsite adult inpatient coverage plus psychiatric consults on the med/surg floor of the hospital as needed.
Preference is for candidates who are local to the area and already credentialed with L.A. County DMH and Kaiser.
Need is for 40 hours a week working for sure Saturdays and Sundays plus flexible on which other 3 days for weekdays. May consider a Monday-Friday schedule.

Hours:

8am to 4pm, 8-hour day shifts. Round on every patient each shift, including on weekends, and do psych consults on the med/surg floor as needed. The NP does most of these and the locums will supervise the NP for any in-hospital consults they do. And will handle new admissions and discharges.
Call is shared 1 in 2 for night call after the locums' day shift that day and it's just for the behavioral health unit, not for in-hospital consults which can typically wait until the following day. Phone consults only. The locums doctor won't ever be called back in to see a patient when on night call. May get called like 3-4 times per week when on night call.
27 bed acute adult inpatient unit covered by both the locums doctor and one of the client's staff psychiatrists. Occasionally, the locums doctor may be the only doctor covering on a weekend.
ADC is 16, ALOS is 4 days. Average daily caseload is 8-10 patients on weekdays. On weekends it's also 8-10 patients, but occasionally will cover the entire unit on a weekend day in which case there could be 16-18 patients.
Medical physicals for new admissions are done by an NP. The locums won't supervise the NP for the medical physicals, the client's medical director will do that.
Takes approximately 3 to 3.5 months for hospital credentialing/privileging.
E.H.R. is Meditech. Must be computer savvy.
Client prefers 6-month minimum assignments.

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