Inpatient Child Psychiatry Unit Director

Overview
Child Psychiatrist
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Lebanon, NH

The Department of Psychiatry is seeking to add a full-time Inpatient Child Psychiatrist to our team in Lebanon.

In this role, you will focus on providing comprehensive psychiatric care for patients on a 6-bed adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit as part of an interdisciplinary care team. The inpatient psychiatry service will care for youth 12-17 years old, including some patients with co-morbid medical issues and/or neuroimmune disorders. For the patients with medical and/or neuroimmune disorders, your role would be focused on the psychiatric care working alongside the pediatrics service.

This leadership position will involve developing the new inpatient program and providing ongoing administrative oversight of the inpatient service.

As an important member of the Department of Psychiatry, you will also contribute to the training of mental health clinicians across multiple disciplines. This role includes the daily supervision of trainees rotating on the inpatient unit including child psychiatry fellows, psychiatry residents and medical students. The ideal candidate will have relevant clinical experience, be an enthusiastic teacher, and have strong organizational and management skills, all of which are important in this role.

Responsibilities
Qualifications

• FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.00 - 1.00 - 40 hrs/week;
• Shift: Day;
• Job ID: 26545;

Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.