Attending Consultation/Liaison Psychiatrist in New York City Hospital
- Employer
- Northwell Health
- Location
- Queens, New York
- Posted Date
- Jan 17, 2019
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- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Position Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Attending Consultation/Liaison Psychiatrist in New York City Hospital with Significant Perinatal Population – Forest Hills Hospital
Northwell Health’s Behavioral Health Service Line is seeking a board-certified or board-eligible psychiatrist to join our Consultation/Liaison (C/L) Psychiatry team at its Long Island Jewish Hospital at Forest Hills (LIJ-Forest Hills) site.
The C/L Service provides psychiatric assessment and treatment to hospitalized adult medical-surgical inpatients including a large labor and delivery service; teaching and supervision to medical residents and other medical and allied health professional trainees, and is academically and administratively linked to the Department of Psychiatry and the C/L Service at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
The successful candidate will be an energetic and engaged clinician with good communication skills and experience and/or interest in C/L Psychiatry. A completed C/L Psychiatry Fellowship is preferred, and new fellowship graduates are encouraged to apply. Opportunities also exist for emerging departmental leadership roles and participation in diverse hospital committees.
LIJ-Forest Hills is a 312-bed community teaching hospital that provides inpatient medical and surgical care, intensive care, and obstetrics and gynecology services. The hospital is designated as a Level II Perinatal Center. Its Emergency Department (ED) is a 911 receiving site, a certified heart station, as well as a New York State-designated Stroke Center. Patients presenting in the ED with psychiatric complaints are evaluated and adjudicated by Northwell’s central emergency telepsychiatry ‘hub.’
In 2017 at LIJ-Forest Hills, there were approximately 16,500 inpatient discharges, including 2,000 women who delivered babies at the hospital; more than 55,000 ED visits, and 4,000 ambulatory surgery procedures.
\Northwell Health offers a highly competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package that includes partial reimbursement of undergraduate and graduate school tuition expenses for eligible dependents, and advanced education opportunities. The department subsidizes academic conferences and professional expenses. Participation in trainee (resident and medical student) education/supervision and academic appointment at our exciting new medical school, the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, are available.
Forest Hills is a mostly residential neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. The neighborhood is surrounded by two of the largest parks in Queens and has two commuter railroads that makes commuting to Manhattan and other NYC and Long Island areas very accessible. It is also home to many appealing shops, cafes, restaurants, and a large outdoor stadium.
For further information and to apply, please send your CV to: opr@northwell.edu
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About Northwell Health
Northwell Health includes 21 award-winning hospitals and more than 750 community based practice locations throughout Long Island, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester. Northwell is the most awarded health system in all of New York, and home to the #1 hospital in the state – North Shore University Hospital* (NSUH) – according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospital Rankings survey. Additionally, six Northwell hospitals earned top 50 national rankings across 39 medical specialties, with nine hospitals ranked among the best in the state.
We have access to the wide range of resources that Northwell Health has to offer, and we are also affiliated with a number of other excellent organizations. Northwell Health Physician Partners provides exceptional, comprehensive and quality clinical care to patients, families and communities through an integrated approach and with a commitment to exceeding customer expectations. At Northwell Health, we define tomorrow’s health care through clinical care, community health, education, research and entrepreneurship.
At Northwell Health, we seek innovation and excellence in everything we do. This passion can be observed throughout our system of 21 hospitals and more than 700 ambulatory and physician practices. We are NYS largest health care provider and private employer. Our mission is to redefine patient care and the way it is provided. Are you Made for this?
Diversity and Health Equity
Northwell Health is committed to training, supporting and nurturing physicians from all backgrounds. We fully understand that diversity is integral for our institutional excellence and a means to attaining health equity. As a result our diversity and inclusion efforts are a part of everything we do, from education, to clinical care, to research, to physician well-being.
Diversity and inclusion permeates our educational and clinical initiatives. We have set a goal to make sure every one of our physicians receives training on how to deliver high quality, culturally competent care. Our recent educational areas of focus have been on social determinants of health, community engagement and developing a medical-legal partnership for our physicians-in-training. One of our many strengths is our diverse patient population and our expectation is that our diverse patient populations receive equitable care, irrespective of who they are. As a result, we continually recruit a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of our diverse patients.
Salary Disclosure
Full-time clinical base compensation at Northwell Health ranges from $125K to $750K, which is impacted by various factors, including but not limited to physician specialty, level of experience, quality of care, academic accomplishments, patient experience and productivity. The base compensation range listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.
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