Child Psychiatrist Needed in Four-Season Community with UPMC!

UPMC Western Behavioral Health at Safe Harbor, located in Erie, Pennsylvania is seeking a child psychiatrist to join a well-established comprehensive, community behavioral health outpatient program.

This opportunity will allow you to live in a beautiful, four-season, affordable city on the water, in a family-friendly community with short commutes to the hospital from many surrounding neighborhoods. Plus, Erie is situated less than two hours from Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo. Toronto is less than four hours away. You will love living here! You will love living here!

Qualified candidate will join an established practice serving more than 7,900. Safe Harbor provides a collaborative and team-oriented work environment with collegiality and nursing support. Join a group of two full-time psychiatrists, two additional psychiatrists and six APPs, to provide a continuum of nursing, case management, therapy, addiction services, and crisis intervention services support with the delivery of quality care. This job opportunity offers J waiver sponsorship.

Candidates should possess:

·       A strong interest in community mental health and serious mental illness

BENEFITS

•       Competitive starting base salary

•       Retention bonus

•       No call rotation

•       Flexible work schedule

•       Nursing team manages phone calls and works on behalf of the provider to troubleshoot    

•       Stable and friendly work environment

•       Five annual CME days and stipend

REQUIREMENTS

•       Board-eligible/board-certified

•       Preferably 2-5 years’ experience in community mental health setting

•       Three appointments per hour with flexibility to manage acuity

About UPMC Western Behavioral Health at Safe Harbor

UPMC Western Behavioral Health at Safe Harbor has a primary focus in serving adults with serious and persistent mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance. Safe Harbor has been recognized for its innovation in behavioral health programming including comprehensive crisis intervention services, hospital diversion programming, and partnership with local law enforcement. Safe Harbor’s Crisis Services is a National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Center.

About UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital

UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital currently employs more than 150 psychiatrists and manages more than 400 psychiatric beds across the network. We have more than 390,000 outpatient visits a year and over $80 million in research funding. A leader in the treatment of mental health and addictive disorders, UPMC is consistently ranked among the nation’s top hospitals for psychiatry by U.S. News & World Report.

About UPMC Hamot

UPMC Hamot is a 458-bed hospital in Erie, PA, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services, and serves as a regional referral hub and Level II Trauma Center. Supported by over 650 physicians and nearly 4,000 dedicated employees, UPMC Hamot’s mission is to serve its patients, communities, and one another in the UPMC Hamot tradition of quality, health, healing, and education. UPMC Hamot’s superior health care services are continually recognized by notable accrediting bodies.

About UPMC

A $26 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. The largest nongovernmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates 95,000 employees, 40 hospitals, 800 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, and a nearly 4.5 million-member Insurance Services Division, the largest medical insurer in western Pennsylvania. In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC contributed $1.5 billion in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution, and paid more than $900 million in federal, state, and local taxes. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial, and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International. U.S. News consistently ranks UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside among the nation’s best hospitals in many specialties and ranks UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on its Honor Roll of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals.

Our Values

At UPMC, we’re driven by shared values that guide our work and keep us accountable to one another. Our Values of Quality & Safety, Dignity & Respect, Caring & Listening, Responsibility & Integrity, Excellence & Innovation play a vital role in creating a cohesive, positive experience for our employees, patients, health plan members, and community.

Supporting a Diverse Workplace

UPMC respects that talent and skill are not limited but enhanced by the diversity and cultural expertise staff brings to the workplace. Having a diverse employee presence at all levels provides a wealth of benefits. It ensures we have the knowledge, critical thinking, agility, and innovation required of a leading and forward-thinking integrated health care system.

About Erie, PA

Located on beautiful Presque Isle Bay and Lake Erie, Erie County is a short drive from the major metropolitan areas of Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Toronto via Interstates 79, 90 or scenic routes such as Route 5 (The Great Lakes Seaway Trail - An America’s Byway™) and Historic Pennsylvania Route 6. It is home to approximately 260,000 residents, making Erie the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania. A true gem of Lake Erie, the City of Erie is Pennsylvania’s only Great Lakes Port City and offers a wide range of fun, affordable things to do such as boating, water skiing, wind surfing, sailing and fishing. Proximity to the Allegheny Mountains affords easy access to Alpine and Nordic skiing. Cultural offerings include a symphony orchestra, ballet and dance companies, playhouse theatre groups and the Presque Isle Downs and Casino. Erie is also home to AA baseball and ice hockey teams. For children, Erie offers a planetarium, the Erie Zoo, children’s museum, community parks, an amusement park and indoor and outdoor water parks. Erie has a selection of excellent public, private and parochial schools, as well as four local universities. Erie’s easy to navigate street system allows for little to no traffic headaches, making it effortless to get from point to point. Set your course for our welcoming shores and get ready for a stress-free, relaxing adventure.

Ready to join us? Apply today!