Description
Access TeleCare, a leading behavioral health solutions provider, is currently seeking board-certified Consult-Liaison Psychiatrists to join our team! This is a unique opportunity to lead and innovate in a fully remote role, helping to shape the future of behavioral health at scale.
Opportunity Highlights:
The Consultation–Liaison Psychiatrist provides remote psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for patients admitted to medical and surgical units within the hospital. The role focuses on the interface between medical illness and mental health, supporting primary medical teams in the management of psychiatric conditions that affect patient care, recovery, and safety.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide psychiatric consultation for patients admitted to medical, surgical, ICU, and specialty units.
- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, including assessment of mood disorders, delirium, psychosis, anxiety, substance use, cognitive disorders, and behavioral disturbances.
- Diagnose and manage psychiatric conditions in medically ill patients.
Initiate and adjust psychotropic medications with attention to medical comorbidities, drug interactions, and organ dysfunction.
Assess decision-making capacity for medical treatment and provide documentation as needed.
Evaluate and manage suicidal ideation, self-harm risk, agitation, and behavioral emergencies in the hospital setting. - Assist with management of delirium and neuropsychiatric complications of medical illness.
- Available for Shifts: Monday-Friday; 8:00am-5:00pm CST (specific to the hospital location) which includes two weekends per month
Consultation and Collaboration:
- Work closely with hospitalists, surgeons, intensivists, nurses, and allied health professionals.
- Provide recommendations to primary teams regarding psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.
- Participate in multidisciplinary care planning and rounds.
- Support staff in managing behaviorally complex patients.
Documentation:
- Complete timely consultation notes, follow-up notes, and capacity evaluations in the electronic medical record.
Document risk assessments, treatment recommendations, and communication with primary teams.
Education and Support - Provide education to medical staff and trainees on psychiatric conditions in medically ill patients.
- Assist in developing protocols for delirium management, suicide risk assessment, and behavioral emergencies.
Typical Conditions Managed:
- Delirium
- Depression and anxiety in medically ill patients
- Suicide risk and self-harm
- Substance use and withdrawal
- Psychosis and severe mental illness
- Behavioral disturbancesCognitive impairment and dementia
Qualifications:
- Board Certified MD or DO
- Experience or fellowship training in Consultation–Liaison Psychiatry preferred
- Telehealth experience would be helpful, but not necessary
- Licensed in a priority state below: (*Combination of these states is a plus)
North Carolina, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Tennessee
Eligible for medical licensure and hospital credentialing
Skills:
- Strong interdisciplinary communication
- Expertise in psychopharmacology in medically ill patients
- Crisis assessment and risk management
To learn more or explore this opportunity, please send your CV and reach out to us. We look forward to connecting with you!
Ashley LeMaster | Access TeleCare
Clinical Sourcing Specialist
https://accesstelecare.com/telepsych-careers/
Access TeleCare is the nation’s largest multi-specialty telemedicine physician group that is focused on high-acuity, high-complexity inpatient care. As a physician lead organization, our clinical AND business philosophy is centered around one thing: clinical excellence. Our clinical workforce provides access to care in 8 core service lines throughout the country, all from their home base or home office. As a group, we have been in operation for nearly two decades, so our platform is very well established, and our success stories go as far back as our date of inception
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Board Certified MD or DO
- Telehealth experience would be helpful, but not necessary
- Experience or fellowship training in Consultation–Liaison Psychiatry preferred
- Licensed in a priority state below: (*Combination of these states is a plus)
North Carolina, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Tennessee - Eligible for medical licensure and hospital credentialing
