Job Description: WPIC is a Whole Person Integrative Care model that works collaboratively in small teams to engage and stabilize high risk and high vulnerability adult homeless individuals and to help prevent harmful effects of homelessness, establish care for chronic conditions and transition patients to effective healthcare.
The Senior Psychiatric Physician Specialist serves as a leader and subject matter expert as a member of a multidisciplinary team that includes health workers, community peer workers, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians and social workers.
WPIC works collaboratively with other SFDPH and city programs serving people experiencing homelessness.
The Senior Psychiatric Physician Specialist will provide services primarily in low barrier/outreach settings including streets and parks, congregate and non-congregate shelters, sobering centers, and permanent supportive housing sites. Services may also be provided in office, urgent, and drop-in clinic settings.
LOCATION: 555 Stevenson St. and various streets parks and shelters, San Francisco
SCHEDULE/SHIFT: Generally, Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, hours may vary, and evening and weekend shifts may be required
Job Responsibilities:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES: The Senior Psychiatric Physician Specialist performs the following duties:
*Serves as an experienced psychiatric representative/consultant including, but not limited to, interactions with other programs or outside agencies; assists in the development and implementation of policies, methods, and procedures within the specialty area; including but not limited to Quality Assurance activities; prepares or reviews detailed and complex medical and technical records and reports.
*Provides psychiatric care to high risk / high vulnerability people experiencing homelessness;
*Provides addiction psychiatry services including treatment of patients with
“medications for addiction treatment” (MAT) and management of patients with cooccurring disorders;
*Serves as team resource in areas where psychiatry and homelessness intersect including providing trainings and assisting in the development of policies and procedures;
Develops innovative interventions and models to improve care of high risk/high vulnerability individuals experiencing homelessness;
Performs other related duties within the scope of practice as assigned/required.
Required education/experience:
Desirable Experience and Qualifications:
- Desire to work with high risk/high vulnerability people experiencing homelessness in an inner city setting, who have multiple chronic problems, which may include medical, mental health, substance use and cognitive impairment
- Two (2) yrs experience providing direct psychiatric care to vulnerable underserved populations with Serious Mental Illness (including but not limited to Psychotic Disorder, Bipolar, PTSD; may include Residency training in safety-net settings)
- Experience with crisis management, assessment for involuntary psychiatric holds and need for conservatorship
- Experience, knowledge and skills in Addiction Medicine particularly prescribing buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorder
- Experience working in and/or developing a trauma-informed care model
- Bilingual, bicultural in Spanish
Required licenses/certifications:
- Current valid CA License medical by the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
- Successful completion** of a residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association in a Psychiatric medical specialty area (i.e., Board Eligible).
- Current valid Drug Enforcement Agency registration with the United States Department of Justice.
If you are interested in this job posting:
Joyce Nagel
[email protected]
628-271-6716