Inpatient Psychiatry Physician - Unit Chief Co-Occurring Disorders Service - Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center - Manhattan NY
Inpatient Psychiatry Physician - Unit Chief Co-Occurring Disorders Service - Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center - Manhattan NY
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The Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center is seeking an exceptional and talented Psychiatrist to serve as the Unit Chief of its CoOccurring Disorders Inpatient Service
The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a psychiatrist with addiction psychiatry fellowship training or experience with substance use disorder treatment to join our team in a new transformational communityoriented facility for behavioral health with integrated services for mental health substance abuse physical health and social service needs. Located on the Lower East Side the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center offers opportunities for leadership career 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 destinationits streets are lined with trendy places to drink dance and hear live music. Many of the areas museums and restaurants serve as reminders of its immigrant history.
The Icahn School of Medicines Department of Psychiatry is a vibrant community of clinicians researchers educators and trainees committed to discovering the causes of and better treatments for mental illness and substance use disorders. We are ranked #6 nationally in NIH funding and listed as one of the top regional hospital departments by U.S. News & World Report. The Mount Sinai Behavioral Health service line encompasses the clinical behavioral health services at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Mount Sinai Hospital Mount Sinai Morningside Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Queens.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities of the CoOccurring Disorders Inpatient Service include:
- Leads and supervises an academic multidisciplinary inpatient psychiatry teama multidisciplinary academic care team which includes psychiatrists psychiatry residents psychologists nursing staff social workers counselors and occupational therapists
- Participate in the assessment and treatment of adult patients with acute psychiatric illnesses who require active treatment in an inpatient setting
- Provide clinical supervision of psychiatry residents fellows medical students and other trainees on the inpatient psychiatry service.
- Participate in educational activities including lectures and case conferences as scheduled by the Department of Psychiatry.
- Collaborate with training program directors in all elements of administrative and clinical responsibilities.
- Collaborate with the department MSBHC MSHS leadership to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe care.
- Monitor clinical staff training needs and implements quality improvement strategies
- Ensure complete and timely documentation.
- Contribute to regulatory compliance and continual accreditation readiness
- Model outstanding professionalism high quality patient care educational excellence and a scholarly approach to work.
- Contribute to an environment where respectful discussion is welcome.
- Conduct a faculty practice under the auspices on the Mount Sinai Faculty Practice if interested.
Clinical/Technical/Service
- 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
- Collaborates with health care professionals across disciplines and sites for shared patient care and transfer approvals
- Participates in the peer review process
- Participates in departmental meetings
- Participates in direct patient care activities as specified in the delineation of privileges
- 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
Qualifications
- Board certified/board eligible Psychiatrist
- Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (preferred) or experience evaluating and treating individuals with substance use disorders
- Possess a NYS license to practice medicine
- Excellent clinical knowledge and communication skills required
- Outstanding teaching skills
- Must possess highly collaborative and proactive approach and demonstrate commitment to highquality costeffective health care
- A strong work ethic and desire to participate in and grow a teamoriented performancedriven department
- Qualifications for Assistant Professor or higher level required
Compensation range from 265K to 300K(not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits)
Salary Disclosure Information:
Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors including experience specialties historical productivity historical collections and hospital/community need. As such an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range and in certain circumstances may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for fulltime employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.
Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:
Alex Cano
Executive Director Physician Recruitment
Mount Sinai Health System
Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full Time
