Description
Incentives Available:
- Relocation assistance up to $10,000 (candidate must submit invoices to claim relocation expenses)
- Sign-on bonus up to $15,000 for employees new to state service with a one-year commitment
- Recognition bonus up to $10,000 on one-year work anniversary with an additional one-year commitment
- Competitive Pay starting at $332,000 (salary commensurate with experience)
Position Overview:
Western State Hospital is seeking a psychiatrist to serve as Chief Medical Officer (CMO). This leadership role will supervise full-time and part-time psychiatric providers, oversee all Medical Staff activities, and manage Primary Care, Admissions Office, and Pharmacy Managers. The CMO ensures that policies, procedures, and outcomes of healthcare activities comply with regulatory, legal, and medical standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with performance planning and evaluation systems, complete evaluations by deadlines with proper documentation
- Address and document performance, behavior, and attendance issues promptly
- Review cases at the request of treatment teams, CEO, CQO, and/or Patient Advocate; prepare written reports as needed
- Provide oversight of patient admission, risk assessment, treatment, transfer, and discharge processes
- Ensure Joint Commission and CMS standards for medical care and treatment are met with minimal citations
- Support quality educational experiences for trainees to enhance knowledge and interest in psychiatry
- Chair or participate in hospital and community committees, performance improvement teams, and collaborative initiatives
- Conduct regular rounds throughout the facility
- May be required to take patient load, calls and provide backup coverage for medical staff
Benefits Include:
- Relocation reimbursement
- Sign-on bonus
- Recognition bonus
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Retirement with cash match
- 13 paid holidays
- Paid time off (annual, sick, family/personal, and community service)
- Life insurance
- Malpractice coverage
Minimum Qualifications
- Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathy degree and completion of an accredited psychiatry residency training program
- Current, full, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Virginia or eligible for a license.
- Active DEA registration prior to the start of work
- Current Certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Additional Consideration
- Clinical experience in hospital psychiatry with some familiarity with forensic psychiatry.
- Past administrative experience in hospital psychiatry.
- Experience supervising non-clinical departments.
- Bilingual in Spanish
- Veteran or Veteran Spouse
Special Instruction
Western State Hospital is a tobacco-free facility in all state buildings and on facility grounds.
To apply, submit a completed state application online at:
https://www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/search?query=Western+State+Hospital
If assistance is needed, contact Samantha.Leep@dbhds.virginia.gov.
Important Application Instructions:
- Ensure your online application is complete. Missing information will result in an incomplete application and will not be processed.
- Verify that all telephone numbers and addresses are up to date.
- Remember your confirmation number. You have not completed the application until you receive this number.
- If connected to a printer, print the confirmation number before clicking OK.
- If not connected to a printer, write down the confirmation number before clicking OK.
Reasonable accommodations for the application and/or interview process are available upon request for individuals with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Minorities, Veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. WSH is an EEO-compliant facility.
Commonwealth Alternate Hiring Process:
To support inclusion, individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply through the Commonwealth Alternate Hiring Process. Applicants must provide a Certificate of Disability (COD) issued by a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor from:
- Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS)
- Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Veterans are encouraged to answer veteran status questions and, if applicable, submit disability documentation to DARS/DBVI to obtain a COD.
To obtain a Certificate of Disability:
- Visit: https://www.vadars.org/drs/cpid/PWContact.aspx
- Call DARS: 800-552-5019
- Call DBVI: 800-622-2155
