Full-Time Adult Inpatient Psychiatrist Locum Tenens Job in the Greater Los Angeles, California AreaDetails/Requirements:*Need starts ASAP and ongoing for onsite adult inpatient coverage plus psychiatric consults on the med/surg floor of the hospital as needed.*Preference is for candidates who are local to the area and already credentialed with L.A. County DMH and Kaiser.*Need is for 40 hours a week working for sure Saturdays and Sundays plus flexible on which other 3 days for weekdays. May consider a Monday-Friday schedule. *Hours: 8am to 4pm, 8-hour day shifts. Round on every patient each shift, including on weekends, and do psych consults on the med/surg floor as needed. The NP does most of these and the locums will supervise the NP for any in-hospital consults they do. And will handle new admissions and discharges.*Call is shared 1 in 2 for night call after the locums’ day shift that day and it’s just for the behavioral health unit, not for in-hospital consults which can typically wait until the following day. Phone consults only. The locums doctor won’t ever be called back in to see a patient when on night call. May get called like 3-4 times per week when on night call. *27 bed acute adult inpatient unit covered by both the locums doctor and one of the client’s staff psychiatrists. Occasionally, the locums doctor may be the only doctor covering on a weekend. *ADC is 16, ALOS is 4 days. Average daily caseload is 8-10 patients on weekdays. On weekends it's also 8-10 patients, but occasionally will cover the entire unit on a weekend day in which case there could be 16-18 patients. *Medical physicals for new admissions are done by an NP. The locums won’t supervise the NP for the medical physicals, the client’s medical director will do that.*Takes approximately 3 to 3.5 months for hospital credentialing/privileging. *E.H.R. is Meditech. Must be computer savvy. *Client prefers 6-month minimum assignments.
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