1. Examines patients to collect information about their physical condition and establishes a clinical diagnosis. 2. Conducts physicals, provides treatment, formulates a health care plan and counsels patients on various health practices. 3. Encourages compliance with treatments plan through education, assessment of patient understanding and regular patient monitoring. 4. Provides reasonable and prudent medical care, practices appropriate management, and uses sound clinical judgment based on best practice standards and evidenced based medicine. 5. Obtains, compiles, and records patient medical data, including health history, progress notes and results of physical examination. 6. Provides preventive health practices to patients to maintain and improve health and prevent illness. 7. Coordinates patient care including ordering of laboratory tests and radiographic studies. 8. Interprets diagnostic test results for deviations from normal. 9. Prescribes therapy or medication as necessary. 10. May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Skill/ability 1:  Providing comprehensive psychiatric assessments to all youth following facility admission/intake, including diagnostic evaluations that are consistent with the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- 5th Edition and ICD 11.

Required Skill/ability 2:  Ability to ensure that standards of care are consistently met in an outpatient setting with individuals who have severe and persistent forms of mental illness and/or who have co-occurring disorders.

Required Skill/ability 3:  Assessing mental status and assigning juveniles on proper precautionary status in accordance with suicide prevention policy.

Required Skill/ability 4:  Initiating & interpreting age-appropriate & condition-specific laboratory tests & diagnostic procedures.