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CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST, SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH

Employer
Northwell Health
Location
Amityville, New York
Posted Date
Jun 23, 2022

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Specialty
Psychiatry
Position Type
Permanent

Job Details

Northwell Health - South Oaks Hospital

Northwell Health’s Department of Behavioral Health is seeking a Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join The School Mental Health team at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, NY. We are seeking applicants with outstanding clinical and interpersonal skills who have a passion for collaboration and innovation.

This is a truly unique opportunity to join the expanding school mental health service as the lead psychiatrist for the Behavioral Health Center – an ambulatory crisis service that provides walk in assessments and short term crisis care to the students of contracted districts, while collaborating and supporting the school based clinical teams. The clinical team includes physicians, social workers, mental health counselors and other administrative personnel. In addition to providing clinical care for students, the Northwell school mental health team also provides professional and community education, curricular support, consultation and care coordination to participating school districts.

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest private employer and healthcare provider and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® with 23 hospitals, eight of which are Magnet® designated, more than 750 outpatient facilities, laboratories, world-class research facilities and more. We are located across Long Island, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Westchester and beyond. Our 74,000+ clinical and non-clinical professionals are redefining the way health care is delivered. Experience a career well cared for and make a difference in the lives of the people in the communities in which we live, love, and belong.

Benefits at Northwell Health include:

  • Nationally competitive salaries
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Four weeks’ vacation plus paid conference/CME time
  • Academic appointment in Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
  • Advanced education opportunities
  • College Tuition reimbursement for dependent children

Applicants must be Board Certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. School mental health or crisis/emergency psychiatry experience preferred.

Qualified candidates should forward their CV to Alice Perkins: APerkins2@northwell.edu.

Company

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.

Website

https://jobs.northwell.edu/career-specialties/physicians/

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