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Inpatient Division Director, Department of Psychiatry

Employer
Northwell Health
Location
Long Island, New York
Posted Date
May 14, 2019

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Specialty
Psychiatry
Position Type
Permanent

Job Details

Inpatient Division Director, Department of Psychiatry, Zucker Hillside Hospital/Long Island Jewish Medical Center of Northwell Health

The Department of Psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital (ZHH) is seeking an innovative Division Director of Inpatient Psychiatry with excellent clinical and administrative skills. 

The inpatient psychiatry service is comprised of ten inpatient units ranging in size from 20 to 31 beds. Six of the units are located in our state-of-the-art Behavioral Health Pavilion. There are five general psychiatry units, a women’s unit with a perinatal cluster, a young adult/college student unit, an adolescent unit, and two geriatric psychiatry units. Inpatient medical providers include 20 attending psychiatrists and four nurse practitioners, all of whom report directly to the Inpatient Division Director. In addition to an excellent and seasoned nursing team, units are additionally staffed by psychologists, social workers, and psychiatric rehabilitation personnel. Several units are residency training environments for R-1 and R-2 psychiatric house staff from our highly regarded residency training program; and units also serve as training sites for medical students and other allied health professional trainees.

Responsibilities include operational oversight of the service, interface with Central Intake, quality and performance monitoring and improvement, continued inculcation of a clinical culture adherent to evidence-based practices that increasingly employs measurement-driven and data-informed outcome/assessment processes. The position is further enriched through Interactions with our world-renowned Psychiatry Research programs, large ECT service, C/L service, emerging rTMS and planned ketamine programs, graduate medical and continuing education activities, and Behavioral Health Service Line, which enables cross-talk with other Northwell system hospitals and their inpatient psychiatry settings through system-wide committees (e.g. P & T, Performance Improvement Coordinating Group, Incident Review) and initiatives (e.g. new behavioral health EMR).

The Zucker Hillside Hospital is located approximately 15 miles from Manhattan and short distances from diverse Long Island-based recreational activities (e.g. beaches, biking, parks).

We offer an exceptional compensation and benefits package. Academic appointment is commensurate with credentials and experience at our exciting new medical school, The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

For additional information and to apply, please call: 718-470-7992 or e-mail your CV to Office of Physician Recruitment: 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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https://jobs.northwell.edu/career-specialties/physicians/

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