Senior Psychiatrist

4 days ago


New York, New York, United States NYC Health Hospitals Full time
Job Title: Senior Psychiatrist

NYC Health + Hospitals is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Psychiatrist to lead our mental health services in a correctional setting. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing clinical leadership, training, and supervision to our psychiatric staff, ensuring the highest quality of care for our patients.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement clinical workflows, policies, and quality metrics in collaboration with the Medical Director and Chief of Mental Health.
  • Recruit, hire, and train staff to provide care in the correctional setting.
  • Ensure the highest possible quality of mental health care, including active participation in quality improvement initiatives, staff and patient safety, treatment supervision, and personnel mentorship and management.
  • Collaborate with other leadership to design, implement, and monitor clinical facility-specific procedures, policies, and operating manuals.
  • Direct clinical individual and group supervision of psychiatric prescribing staff, including psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and psychiatric physician assistants.
  • Closely collaborate with other relevant disciplines within the mental health, medical, nursing, and operations departments, as well as the Department of Correction.
  • Ensure timely completion of medication renewals and adherence to standard of care.
  • Educate clinical staff on new developments in best practices in psychiatric care, with a focus on issues specific to the correctional setting.
  • Ensure compliance with all regulatory standards.
  • Oversee the orientation of new staff to the facility or program.
  • Conduct regular multi-disciplinary case conferences and educational programming.
  • Report to the CHS Morbidity and Mortality review committee as needed.
  • Collaborate with other mental health leadership to manage clinical schedules, vacation requests, CME activities, and other relevant activities.
  • Participate in policy revision and creation, and practice guideline development, related to psychiatric care.
  • Lead interdisciplinary mental health staff meetings in coordination with local MH leadership.
  • Manage personnel, including setting quality standards, establishing effective recruitment and retention strategies, and managing workforce complaints.
  • Perform administrative tasks, including coordinating scheduling and assignment of patient care appointments, scheduling of staff, and management of referrals to mental health services.
  • Direct clinical care, as determined by facility needs, which may include direct supervision of psychiatric trainees.
  • Participate in on-call responsibilities for off-hours issues requiring high-level clinical intervention.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the Medical Director of Mental Health or the Chief of Service.
Requirements:
  • Completion of a 4-year psychiatric residency training program.
  • Completion of a forensic psychiatry fellowship.
  • Active certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry.
  • At least two years of post-residency experience working with individuals with mental illness in a criminal justice setting or public health community setting.
  • At least one year of post-residency experience in a supervisory role in psychiatry.
  • At least one year of post-residency experience working with individuals with serious mental illness.
  • Excellent diagnostic and treatment skills, with particular attention to issues of psychopharmacology, safe administration of medication in a variety of settings, medical complications of mental illness, and therapeutic resistance.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines, including DOC staff.
  • Strong leadership skills, with ability to identify staff needs and provide mentorship and education to suit those needs.
  • Buprenorphine waiver training.
Corporate Title Qualifications:
  • Graduation from a medical school approved by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association.
  • Completion of an acceptable internship in an approved hospital.
  • A license to practice medicine in the State of New York.
  • Certification by American Board in the field of specialization or a faculty appointment of Associate Professor or higher in a medical school recognized by the American Medical Association.
  • Eight (8) years of satisfactory full-time paid experience in the field of specialization, including at least three (3) years in a supervisory or administrative capacity.

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