Psychiatrist (1099) - Nitelines Usa - Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:00:51 -0600

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Psychiatrist (1099)

Pay rate: $230.00-$235.00 per hour (1099).

Location: Memphis, TN.

Schedule:

VA Business Hours: All referenced times are in Central Time. The Mental Health Clinic is open Monday–Friday 8:00am-4:30pm. On call hours commence at 4:30pm and concludes at 8:00am, Monday–Friday. Weekend inpatient coverage hours are from 8:00am–4:30pm Saturday and Sunday.

Physician shall be available and present in clinic during normal facility clinic hours, which will be established, and may be revised. Currently, normal clinic hours are as follows:

General Mental Health Clinic: Monday–Friday, 8:00am–4:30pm.

Inpatient Psychiatry: Monday–Friday, 8:00am–5:00pm.

Specialty Clinics: Monday – Friday, 8:00am–4:30pm. Specialty Clinics include, Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC), Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MHICM), PTSD clinic, and Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Programs.)

Off-hours coverage:

Physician must be available on-call during all hours when the facility clinic is closed, including evenings, weekends and holidays.

Physician(s) must be available at all times for phone consultations with VA residents and Physicians.

On-call providers mut be available within 15 minutes by phone and on-site, within 60 minutes.

Qualifications:

License: Shall have a current license to practice medicine in any State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia when services are performed onsite on VA property.

All licenses held by the key personnel shall be full and unrestricted licenses. Physician(s) who have current, full and unrestricted licenses in one or more states, but who have, or ever had, a license restricted, suspended, revoked, voluntarily revoked, voluntarily surrendered pending action or denied upon application will not be considered.

Board Certification: Shall be Board Certified /Board Eligible by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology http://www.abpm.org/, and be currently certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or equivalency. All continuing education courses required for maintaining certification must be kept up to date at all times.

Description:

Direct patient care: Estimated 95% of the time involved in direct patient care.

Inpatient care: All Psychiatrists will be required to work in collaboration with Mental Health staff who are part-time or full time salaried by the VA for inpatient care duties including but not limited to:

Operating and collaborating physician's patients.

Seeing 1C/1D Psychiatry Service-Ward Patients.

Admitting.

Diagnosis of patients.

Developing treatment plans.

Managing, including the performance of timely treatment.

Discharge/transfer.

Including all needed medical record documentation.

Outpatient care.

Seeing all new patient referrals with accompanying medical records.

Seeing severely mental ill patients.

Evaluation disposition E-consult.

Post-discharged follow up.

Patients must be seen by provider in 30 days.

Clinic and residential care:

Shall provide clinical psychiatry services.

Clinical duties include direct patient care.

Shall operate the clinic, examine patients, and interpret reports as required by the VA.

Shall be present and on time for any scheduled clinics as documented by physical presence in the clinic.

Approximate case load is as follows:

6 to 6.5 patient bookable hours per day.

6 patients for an hour each or roughly 12 patients for one half-hour each; or any combination of one-hour and one-half hour appointment per day totaling 6 to 6.5 bookable patient hours per day.

Peer review:

Shall provide professional Psychiatry Service with Mental expertise for peer review of selected cases. This shall include, but not be limited to tort claims, patient family complaints, Mental Health case reviews, peer reviews, and Health case reviews, peer reviews, and benefit appeals.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.