PRN Pediatrician

North Spring Behavioral Healthcare is currently hiring a PRN Pediatrician to join our multidisciplinary clinical team!

The PRN Pediatrician will provide medical and diagnostic care to patients with mental, emotional and behavioral disorders in collaboration with our treatment team. Additionally, they will deliver quality medical care, serve actively and constructively as a member of the multidisciplinary clinical team, and support the organization and our program's treatment philosophy.

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.

• Participates as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team. Provides clinical services to the facility in coordination with the facility Medical Director.

• Actively participates as needed in treatment team meetings.

• Attends and participates in department and other program or clinical meetings, as needed.

• Assess, direct, and intervene in crisis situations.

• Diagnose, prescribe medication, monitor medication side effects and participate in the treatment process of residents.

• Provides and supports evidence-based practice within the scope of the hospital's Strategic vision and policies.

• Provides on call services based on hospital need and within the parameters of the employment agreement.

• Participates as needed with the hospitals utilization review processes.

Location: Beautiful Leesburg, Virginia, 40 miles Northwest of Washington DC. Named one of the best places to live by Money magazine. 45-acre campus in a rural area on the northern edge of Leesburg with a gymnasium, beautiful outdoor campus and high ropes course. Excellent public school system.

North Spring Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. is a multifaceted behavioral healthcare system comprised of three programs to serve children and adolescents with a broad spectrum of psychiatric service needs. Programs of service include an 87-bed, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services licensed, Joint Commission accredited psychiatric residential treatment facility, a Partial Hospitalization Program, and a 40-bed acute psychiatric hospital. Our strategic plan for the past two years has been centered on improving fidelity to our evidence-based clinical methodology. North Spring is part of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) one of the Nation's largest and most respected healthcare management companies, operating through its subsidiaries acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers nationwide. Founded in 1978, UHS subsidiaries now have more than 83,000 employees. The UHS business strategy is to build or purchase healthcare properties in rapidly growing markets and create a strong franchise based on exceptional service and effective cost control. Our success comes from a responsive management style and a service philosophy based on integrity, competence and compassion.

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• Graduate of an accredited medical school; completion of a pediatric residency.

• Licensed as a Pediatrician in the State of Virginia.

• Knowledge of appropriate assessment and evaluation tools and tests, diagnoses, & interventions with patients; Knowledge of milieu management; Advanced skills in medication management; Knowledge of acute adolescent and child medical disorders. Professional experience of at least 5 years.

• Prior experience in a residential or acute inpatient treatment program is preferred.

• Prior experience in child and adolescent psychiatric care is preferred.