Clinical Psychologist Needed for Locum Coverage at Outpatient Facility in Georgia

Job description

About the facility

The outpatient facility operates as a specialized psychiatric practice focused on comprehensive mental health treatment. The facility maintains an integrated behavioral health team approach with consistent referral patterns from in-house Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists. The practice emphasizes evidence-based treatment modalities and serves patients across all age groups with various mental health conditions.

About the facility location

This Georgia region features diverse natural attractions including scenic state parks, botanical gardens, and mountain destinations alongside recreational opportunities at local wineries and vineyards. The area offers year-round outdoor recreation activities with hiking trails, camping facilities, and educational venues such as science museums. Visitors can explore various parks, nature preserves, and cultural sites throughout the northwest Georgia region.

About the clinician's workday

The clinician will provide comprehensive psychological services in an outpatient psychiatry practice focused on children, adolescents, and adults. Primary responsibilities include conducting diagnostic evaluations, ADHD assessments, and psychological testing to support treatment planning while receiving consistent referrals from an in-house Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. The clinician will collaborate with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners in an integrated behavioral health team and provide evidence-based therapy including CBT, trauma-informed care, and supportive therapy. The position requires managing cases involving depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma-related disorders, adjustment disorders, mood disorders, and treatment-resistant depression with a caseload of 6-8 patients per day depending on evaluation versus therapy schedule.

Additional job details

• Case load/PPD: 6-8 depending on evaluation vs therapy schedule
• Support staff: Psychiatrists, Therapists, Operations Manager and Scheduling staff
• Patient population: All Ages
• Location type: On-Site
• Prescriptive authority required: No
• Shift hours: Part time (20 hours)
• Cases treated: Depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma-related disorders, adjustment disorders, mood disorders, treatment-resistant depression
• Average length of stay: Not applicable
• Census: Not applicable
• Med checks/follow-up per day: 45-60 min
• Initial evaluation time: 60-90 min