The Central Alabama VA Medical Center - Tuskegee, is currently seeking full-time board certified/board eligible Psychiatrist to join our Mental Health Team. Actively recruiting outpatient generalist and specialist psychiatrist for our inpatient high intensity unit. CAVHCS provides health services to Veterans throughout central Alabama and west-central Georgia.

Psychiatrist will function as a highly skilled, independent care provider in the management of patients with behavioral health problems; carry a caseload and provide consultation to Behavioral Health, Primary Care, and other clinical programs within the VA Healthcare system, community agencies, and other clinicians caring for our veterans; be responsible to one or more Behavioral Health programs either on the main campus or at outlying clinics associated with the Tuskegee VA Healthcare Center (Columbus, Dothan, Fort Benning, Fort Rucker & Monroeville), and may participate in Tele-psychiatry duties.

VA Central Alabama Healthcare System – Tuskegee & Montgomery has teaching hospitals that provide a full range of health services for Veterans, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. VACAHS serves more than 49,000 Veterans in a 39-county area that covers central Alabama and parts of western Georgia, with over 433,00 outpatients visits per year.  Services include outpatient primary care, outpatient mental health, specialty care, substance abuse residential rehabilitation, Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC), HUD/VASH (VA Supported Housing), and Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) programs.

Benefits and Features

• Expected Salary range for well qualified Psychiatrist will be competitive for the academic rank with consideration given to candidate's qualifications, credentials and experience. Selected candidate may receive Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus), Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance) & be eligible to apply for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), and if approved, receive up to $200k in school loan repayment.
• The VA offers Psychiatrist and all employees industry leading full benefits and features package to support high quality professional practice & favorable work-life-family balance.
• Paid Time Off in the form of 26 Days paid annual leave, 13 Days paid sick leave per year, 12 weeks of maternity or paternity leave, 11 Federal holidays with pay. 
• Insurance to include Health-Dental-Vision care insurance programs to choose from with premiums partially paid by VA; Flexible Spending Accounts; Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government; and Long-term care insurance available as an option
• Federal Retirement Plans thru the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) - A three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits; 2) FERS-FRAE basic benefits (pension); and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan, with up to five percent government matching

Tuskegee is a beautiful community with rolling hills, spruce pines, lakes, streams and meadows naturally accenting the topography, located 21 miles west of Auburn (Opelika) in central Alabama and is the county seat of Macon County with nearly 9,000 residents. As a major part of Alabama’s history, Tuskegee is the birthplace of Rosa Parks, Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver. The city is also home to Tuskegee University, the state’s second-oldest historically black college, and the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. The city offers a number of recreational opportunities, including Lake Tuskegee.

Auburn-Opelika is the proud home of Auburn University, Alabama's biggest, and the Robert Trent Jones Trail, the world’s finest. It's the coolest college town in the South, according to us, and one of the top 10 cities in the US for small businesses, according to Forbes. Centrally located near Atlanta, Birmingham and Montgomery, Auburn-Opelika is easy to get to and easy to love.  Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama, with a 2020 population of 76,143. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 158,991, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 501,649 residents.

For more information, please forward your Curriculum Vitae to Hank Laguatan, VA National Healthcare Recruitment Consultant at Henry.laguatan@va.gov or call (206) 459-7927.

About Central Alabama VA Medical Center - Tuskegee

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.

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