Psychiatrist

Why New Vista Oakwood

The mission of New Vista is to assist individuals and families in the enhancement of their emotional, mental and physical well-being by providing mental health, intellectual/developmental disabilities and substance abuse services.  Oakwood’s Specialty Clinic is a state of the art facility providing the highest quality medical, dental and psychiatric care to individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).

Position Description

The Psychiatrist works 37.5 hours per week, providing ongoing Psychiatric Assessments to each individual receiving psychotropic medication, which will be documented in the Progress Notes.  They will be integrated into the Interdisciplinary Team’s function at monthly meetings.  They will integrate with the Clinical Specialist and exchange data on at least a monthly basis.  Also will attend Post-Epileptology and Neurology Clinic meetings and interface with the Epileptologist and/or Neurologist specifically regarding their patients.  The Psychiatrist will attend the Morning Medical Meetings, the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee, and the Infection Control Committee meetings, and may be requested to be a part of a Behavior Intervention Team meeting and the Human Rights Committee.  They also provide individualized services to meet the treatment needs of each of the specialty intermediate care (IC) clinic patients for services in field of care.  They shall meet requirements of 902 KAR 20:410 Specialty Intermediate Care Clinics as warranted.  Oakwood New Vista provides support for CEUs.           

Qualifications

•    Doctorate of Medicine

•    Licensed as a Medical Doctor for the state of Kentucky 

•    Behavioral expertise and IDD experience strongly preferred

Site Description

New Vista Oakwood is located on the shores of Lake Cumberland in the heart of Somerset, Kentucky; a growing, friendly city.  Somerset provides a highly livable environment because of affordable cost of living, healthy lifestyle, excellent school systems and exceptionally high quality of life.

Our employees experience all the benefits of working for a company that values their employees by providing a robust incentive and benefits package.

•    Generous and flexible Annual Leave and Sick Leave plan
•    FREE Onsight Primary Care Clinic for employees and their dependents
•    Health, Vision and Dental insurance
•    Retirement savings 401K with up to 5% company match
•    Company paid Life and AD&D insurance at 1.5 times your annual salary
•    Employee Assistance, Wellness, Perks and more!

New Vista prohibits discrimination and harassment against any applicant, employee or contractor based on sex, race, color, age, national or ethnic origin, religion, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law.  This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, working conditions, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, wage and salary administration, employee benefits and training. It is also the company’s policy to prohibit all forms of retaliation against any individual who has complained of harassing or discriminatory conduct, encouraged another to complain, participated in an investigation into such complaints, or opposed unlawful discrimination.