Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill full-time and part-time vacancies. This position includes a $2,500.00 gross signing bonus at hire and $2,500.00 gross bonus at the completion of the probationary period for full-time positions. A prorated bonus will be earned for part-time positions ($1,250.00 gross signing bonus at hire and $1,250.00). Arlington County Department of Human Services (DHS) is hiring Psychiatrists in the Behavioral Health Division (BHD). DHS provides a broad continuum of social services, behavioral healthcare, public health, and employment programs to approximately 60,000 customers per year in an integrated, collaborative approach. DHS has a recovery and best practice-oriented mission, and this Psychiatrist will have the opportunity to be a part of projects which are at the forefront of mental health service delivery, including health care integration and innovative access models. BHD provides a range of services that promote recovery, independence, and community integration for adults with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders. These services include emergency mental health, discharge planning, medical services, case management, and linkage to other services which are provided directly by County staff or through contract, at the Sequoia Plaza offices, at community-based locations, in the County jail, in homeless shelters, and on the streets. This full-time Psychiatrist will provide emergency and community-based outpatient services in the Behavioral Healthcare Division (BHD). To learn more about Arlington County's Psychiatric Services, please visit DHS. Specific duties include: * Performing diagnostic psychiatric evaluations; * Ongoing psychiatric management, including psycho-pharmacologic treatment, psycho-therapeutic support, and crisis intervention; * Assuring comprehensive healthcare needs are identified and treated; * Providing team consultation and clinical oversight of nurse practitioners as well as participation in interdisciplinary treatment planning meetings; * Educating clients about their illness and providing health management information * Documenting clinical care in the electronic clinical record; and * Providing backup physician coverage as needed to the Division outpatient services. Arlington County DHS is committed to delivering client services in an effective, equitable, respectful, and trauma-informed manner. Our staff is dedicated to ensuring our clients are approached, engaged, and cared for in ways that demonstrate competency, sensitivity, and awareness of factors that impact the client experience, including but not limited to: cultural identity, gender, racial, and ethnic diversity, religious/spiritual ascription, physical capability, cognitive and literacy levels, sexual orientation, and linguistic needs. Selection Criteria Minimum: * M.D. from an accredited college or university * Four years' experience in psychiatry. * Must be licensed (or licensable) to practice medicine in the State of Virginia and be eligible to take examination of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Desirables: Preference may be given to candidates with experience in one or more of the following: * Board Certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; * Emergency services/crisis intervention; * Serving senior adult and/or intellectually and developmentally disabled populations; * Completion of fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry or experience working with Opioid and other SU disorders; * Providing services in an outpatient community setting working intensively with patients with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders; and/or * Working on an interdisciplinary team serving a diverse and chronically ill population. Special Requirements: Please note: A cover letter is considered part of this application. Must be licensed or license eligible to practice medicine in the State of Virginia and be eligible to take examination of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Must pass a criminal background check and State of Virginia Central Registry check. Employment restrictions: To ensure that dual relationships are avoided and that employees who are also clients do not relate to their service provider as co-professionals, employees will not be hired by the County to provide or support services to the team or program in which they are current clients: * You cannot concurrently receive behavioral health services from Arlington County Community Service Board (CSB) programs while employed in an Arlington County CSB program (exception Crisis Intervention services). * At least 24 months must have passed between receipt of CSB services from Arlington County and employment in an Arlington County CSB program. Additional Information: Work Hours: Monday through Friday, 18-20 hours per week with flexible scheduling. Participation in after-hours telephone calls with additional compensation. Salary includes Malpractice Insurance. Your responses to the supplemental questionnaire are considered part of the selection process. Please do not enter "see resume" as a response to the questions. Each section of the application must be completed. A resume may be attached; however, it will not substitute for the completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered