VA Psychiatrist Ambulatory Withdrawal Management-GREAT BENEFITS!

Job Title: Psychiatrist - Ambulatory Withdrawal Management

Location: Sacramento VA Medical Center, Mather, CA

Organization: VA Northern California Health Care System (NCHCS)

Overview: The VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards includes competitive salary, bonuses, benefits, and other incentives.

Key Benefits:

• Recruitment/Relocation Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized
• Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized
  
  • Contact: V21CCOEEDRP@va.gov for questions and assistance
• Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and regular salary increases
• Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm; potential for evening hours and weekends based on provider's request and supervisor's discretion
• Paid Time Off: 50-55 days per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays, and possible 5-day paid absence for CME)
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% matching contribution by VA
• Insurance: Federal health, vision, dental, term life, and long-term care (many programs can be carried into retirement)
• Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
• CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
• Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
• Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

On-Call Duties:

• Weeknight and weekend on-call duties for either the Behavioral Health Intensive Care Unit (BHICU) at the Sacramento VA Medical Center or the Joint Inpatient Mental Health Unit (JIMHU) located at Travis Air Force Base
• On-call rotations last one week and are usually Friday through Thursday, including weekends and holidays
• On-call duties include potential admissions to the inpatient psychiatric unit, evaluating patients, evaluating emergent psychiatric consults, and rounding on the inpatient psychiatric unit during weekends and holidays
• Psychiatrists generally are on-call three to five times per year depending on site

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide same-day addiction services to support patients with Substance Use Disorders (SUD), especially Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorder
• Work with ARTS nurse case managers to assess and diagnose patients, complete ambulatory detox, and follow up with patients until stabilized
• Prescribe medications for psychiatric comorbidities as needed
• Order and follow up with labs, coordinate care
• Provide SUD education to patients and staff
• Act as liaison to other MH programs and medical departments
• Offer inpatient consultations and co-management with outpatient teams for complicated patients
• Maintain a panel of patients to ensure longitudinal care within ARTS

Qualifications:

• Ability to conduct assessments, formulate diagnoses, and develop treatment plans for patients with substance use and/or other psychiatric disorders using an interdisciplinary team approach
• Manage psychiatric medication, evaluate general medical suitability for withdrawal management, detoxification, and/or psychiatric hospitalization
• Ability to prescribe medications for the treatment of substance use disorders, including buprenorphine, as well as medications for other psychiatric disorders
• Strong collaboration, coordination, and cooperation with colleagues within and across disciplines
• Reports to the NCHCS ARTS Program Director and the NCHCS ARTS Medical Director

For more information and to apply, please contact: Kelly De Boer, VA Physician Recruiter kelly.deboer@va.gov 

The Department of Veteran Affairs Northern California Health Care System (VANCHCS) is an integrated health care delivery system, offering a comprehensive array of medical, surgical, rehabilitative, mental health and extended care to veterans in Northern California. The health system is comprised of a medical center in Sacramento; a rehabilitation and extended care facility in Martinez; outpatient clinics in Martinez, Fairfield, Vallejo, Stockton, Modesto, Sonora, Sacramento (Mather and McClellan Park), Auburn, Yuba City, Redding, Chico, and Yreka; and dental clinics in Vallejo, Sacramento and Redding.

The Sacramento VA Medical Center is a 81-bed, state-of-the-art, inpatient facility offering a full range of comprehensive health care services including medical, surgical, primary and mental health care. The medical center, which is comprised of 25 medical-surgical beds, 30 TCU beds, 10 ICU beds, 16 BHICU, and a four room operating suite, also a cardiac catheterization lab, a gastrointestinal & endoscopy suite, angiography capability and 16,000 square-feet of research laboratory. Offers a wide range of outpatient and diagnostic services, including mammography, MRI, CT, and PET scanning.

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Sacramento, California is one of the most historic cities in California. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and American River, two hours between both San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains with access to exceptional wine in Napa and Sonoma. Known as America's Farm-to-Fork Capital, recognized for its cutting-edge cuisine, farm-fresh restaurants, and plentiful farmers' markets. Sacramento has many cultural and artistic events, live music, dining and the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Come see why this is the place to live, work and play!

Paid Time Off:

• 26 Days paid annual (vacation/personal) leave
• 13 Days paid sick leave each year with no limit on accumulation
• 11 Federal holidays with pay annually
• 5 Days paid absence to attend approved CME courses

Insurance:

• Health Insurance: VA employees have an outstanding number of health insurance plans from which to choose (premiums are partially paid by VA) Lifetime Healthcare Insurance options available
• Dental & Vision: Our insurance options also include exceptional vision and dental plans (premiums are partially paid by VA)
• VA employees have the option to use Flexible Spending Accounts, which allow you to use tax-free dollars to pay for medical, dental, and vision care expenses that are not reimbursed by your health insurance plan
• Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government
• Long-term care insurance is available as an option

Federal Retirement Plan:

• VA employees are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits, 2) FERS-RAE basic benefits (pension), and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan
• How is the pension funded? VA employees automatically contribute 4.4% of their salary each pay period and the VA contributes 12.2% of the employee’s salary each pay period for a total annual contribution percentage equal to 16.6% of the employee’s salary
• Similar to the 401(k) savings plans widely available in the private sector, the TSP allows employees to tax defer a portion of their income each year, subject to the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. For calendar year 2020, employees under the age of 50 may contribute up to $19,500, while those over age 50 are eligible to make catch-up contributions that allow them to defer up to $25,500.
• The Federal Government also provides an automatic basic contribution (1% of salary) and up to 4% of salary in matching contributions, depending on the amount of the employee contribution
• For retired military personnel, these benefits are in addition to full monthly retirement pay or pension
• In addition to FERS, VA provides health care insurance coverage for retired personnel
• Disability Retirement
• Employees are vested in a federal pension after only 5 years service