Psychiatry - Comprehensive Evaluation Service Express Behavioral Health - Physician - Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center - Manhattan, NY

Exciting opportunity to join an expanding clinical service at the new Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center on the Lower East Side!

The Mount Sinai Health System is looking for a psychiatrist to join our team in a new transformational, state-of-the-art, community-oriented facility for behavioral health with integrated services for mental health, substance abuse, physical health, and social service needs on the Lower East Side. The Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center offers opportunities for leadership, quality development, teaching, and scholarship within the Department of Psychiatry and the Mount Sinai Health System.

The Lower East Side is in New York County and is one of the best places to live in New York. This vibrant downtown neighborhood is a popular nightlife destination—its streets are lined with trendy places to drink, dance and hear live music. Many of the area’s museums and restaurants serve as reminders of its immigrant history.

The Comprehensive Evaluation Service (CES) and new Express Behavioral Health Care Service (EC) offer scheduled and walk-in outpatient evaluations. This “no wrong door” approach provides a single point of entry into the full-continuum of ambulatory services offered by the Center. As a member of a multidisciplinary team, this full-time Psychiatrist position in CES and EC provides direct care to patients who present for an evaluation or short-term, outpatient treatment and supervises other clinical staff and trainees. The psychiatrist reports to the Medical Director of CES/EC.

• Oversight of day-to-day CES/EC clinical services and operations to ensure the efficient and effective operation of the program
• Provides clinical coverage of the CES/EC Service and associated services when needed
• Supervises clinical staff including psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatry residents, and psychologists
• Monitors clinical staff training needs and implements quality improvement strategies
• Collaborates with the Medical Director of CES in quality and safety initiatives
• Ensures complete and timely documentation
• Contributes to regulatory compliance and continual accreditation readiness
• Collaborates across MSBHC services to facilitate access to evaluations including ambulatory services, inpatient behavioral health services, medical services, substance use treatment services, and community referrals
• Models outstanding professionalism, high quality patient care, educational excellence, and a scholarly approach to work
• Contributes to an environment where respectful discussion is welcome

Clinical/Technical/Service

• Based on best practices, assumes the evaluation, treatment and supervision of outpatients at the discretion/direction of the Medical Director
• Correctly documents all outpatient services in a timely and accurate manner.
• Supervises the work of assigned residents or fellows; reviews and attests to the resident documentation, and directly treats patients
• Signs medical records and related patient care documents as required by regulations
• Available to collaborate with other health care professionals as assigned by the CES Medical Director
• Participates in the peer review process
• Participates in departmental meetings
• Participates in direct patient care activities as specified in the delineation of privileges and contract
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the patients served
• Participates in Quality and Safety initiatives of the department

These duties may be modified from time to time by the Chair/Director based on Institutional needs.

Compensation range from 240K to 265K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits)

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Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:
Physician Recruitment Department
Mount Sinai Health System
[email protected]

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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