Job Description
The South Island Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Island Health is seeking to fill a 0.6 FTE Child and Adolescent Psychiatry position.
This role provides psychiatric services to children and youth in the Greater Victoria area. Services include:
- Psychiatric consultation to the emergency department and Pediatric Inpatient Unit at VGH (those admitted under psychiatry and those referred in a consultation liaison context under pediatrics)
- Psychiatric management including pharmacotherapy of Mental Health and Substance Use conditions for children and youth admitted under pediatric psychiatry to the pediatric unit.
- Collaboration with the mental health crisis team, pediatricians, emergency department physicians, patient transfer network and other care team providers.
- Attendance at Quality meetings
- Participation in program development and division meetings.
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