Impact Lives, Impact Community

Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) is passionate about providing exceptional health care to all, especially underserved communities with limited health care options. Founded by a Latina grandmother/community advocate over 50 years ago in Barrio Logan, FHCSD has grown into one of the largest community health systems in the country. With over 62 sites, over 227,000 patients, and over 417,000 visits last year, we provide a wide variety of health care and outreach services to a very diverse patient population. We are proud of our mission, our lasting community impact, and the cultural and individual diversity of our staff.

Title: Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Who we are:

Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) is looking for a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join our team at our FamilyHealth-Youth Counseling Center. Located in the San Diego community of Logan Heights, the FamilyHealth-Youth Counseling Center provides high-quality comprehensive treatment for children and teens with behavioral and emotional health challenges. The Psychiatrist will provide psychiatric services, including assessment/evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment in assigned areas, to a diverse patient population as an independent practitioner. If you are passionate about providing caring, high quality mental health services with a special commitment to the uninsured, low income, and the medically underserved, FHCSD is looking for people like you.

Responsibilities:

• Completes all required documentation accurately, in a timely manner, and thoroughly in accordance with department standards; in addition, documentation complies with patients' insurance requirements.
• Maintains satisfactory peer reviews: able to assess medical information including pathophysiology, patient presentation, differential diagnosis, etc., in order to facilitate health promotion and disease prevention.
• Meets clinic site and organization needs in a reliable and flexible manner; prioritizes work and makes an effort to adhere to schedule.
• Provides comprehensive evaluations, diagnosis and treatment of patients with mental illness, emotional disorders and/or substance abuse.
• As needed, examines patients to determine presence of physical disease utilizing physical finds, laboratory results and medical history.
• Maintains the appropriate productivity expectation based on contract, program or clinic assignment.
• Works effectively as a member of the multi-disciplinary treatment team.
• Communicates with providers, physicians, case managers, scheduling staff, referring providers, and with outside agencies and authorities, in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Coordinates and links psychiatric treatment plan with both FHCSD therapy, case management, primary care "medical home," and with community support systems as appropriate. In integrated behavioral health sites, provides consultation and support to primary care providers in the management of primary care patients with mental health concerns.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Board certified or Board eligible in a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry field
• Experience with underserved, low-income persons, or homeless persons preferred
• Ability to work effectively with patients from diverse social, cultural and economic groups
• Current American Heart Association healthcare provider CPR (BLS), or Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support, or Advance Resuscitation Training
• DEA license
• Graduate from an accredited school of medicine; completion of a 3 year residency in Psychiatry OR current status as a 3rd year resident in a Psychiatry program
• Must possess current unrestricted license to practice in the State of California
• Second language fluency in Spanish is preferred

Rewards:

• Job type: Full Time or Part Time Available
• Competitive Salary with Excellent Benefits
• Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Paid Time Off, Extended Sick Leave and Paid Holidays
• Medical/Dental/Vision/FSA/Life Insurance
• Employee Discounts and Wellness Programs

FHCSD was founded by community activists working towards a common goal: caring, affordable, high-quality medical care for all. We are proud to continue this mission today as we provide accessible services to over 210,000 patients across San Diego County. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated commitment to community medicine and providing culturally competent psychiatric services to the medically underserved.

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base range for this position, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses.

If you are hired at Family Health Centers of San Diego, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, jurisdictional requirements, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to these factors - we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is what we reasonably expect to pay for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on our benefits offerings is available here: