Sanford Health in Fargo, N.D., is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Child Psychiatrist to join its leading team of Child Behavioral Health specialists. This role offers the opportunity to provide comprehensive care for children and adolescents with developmental, mental, behavioral, addictive, or emotional disorders. The successful candidate will work within a large rural healthcare system that includes a designated Children's Hospital and a robust network of outpatient pediatricians and family practice providers.
Practice Info
- Join an experienced team comprised of 2 child Psychiatrists, 7 child Psychologists, 1 psychiatric nurse practitioner, RN support, and a designated social worker.
- The department offers a full spectrum of office-based specialists providing PCIT, TF-CBT, testing, and short and long-term therapy services.
- Sanford Health has a nationally recognized eating disorder program that includes clinic-based services, a partial hospital, and inpatient levels of care across all ages.
- Work with a Partial Hospital Program for patients aged 12 to 17 years old and their families, offering intensive DBT-based treatment.
- Work closely with the Traumatic Stress Treatment Center, offering therapy for children who have experienced psychological trauma.
- Affiliated with the University of North Dakota's General Psychiatry Residency Program, with 6 residents per year rotating through the child psychiatry department.
Responsibilities
- Admit, evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation to children and adolescents who suffer from developmental, mental, behavioral, addictive, or emotional disorders.
- Provide consultation to the inpatient pediatric unit.
- Provide consultation to primary care providers both directly and with the support of integrated health therapists located within the outpatient clinics.
- Teaching opportunities available with a clinical faculty appointment to UND School of Medicine.
Compensation
- Nationally competitive compensation plan.
Benefits
- Physician benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401K plan.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Life insurance.
- CME allowance.
- Allowed time away.
- Malpractice insurance and tail coverage.
- Relocation allowance.
Requirements
- M.D. or D.O. degree.
- Successful completion of a hospital-affiliated Psychiatry residency program with two additional years of residency training in child and adolescent psychiatry accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada.
- Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/subspecialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as applicable.
- If not board certified at the time of application but completed residency training within the last five years, must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of residency training.
- Demonstrate active involvement of inpatient, outpatient, or consultative services in child or adolescent psychiatry to at least 30 patients in the last 12 months (if not applying directly out of residency).
- If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant's clinic activity for the last 12 months is required, demonstrating active involvement in the care of 30 child or adolescent patients in clinical practice in the last 12 months.