New York, New York
Fort Collins, Colorado
Posted: 30-Apr-23
Location: Amityville, New York
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: CAPS MD
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, CHILD AND ASOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST
Northwell Health – South Oaks Hospital, Amityville, NY
Northwell Health’s Department of Behavioral Health is seeking a BE/BC Psychiatrist to help lead the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service Line at South Oaks Hospital located in Amityville, New York. We are seeking applicants with outstanding clinical and managerial skills who have a passion for leading, directing, and developing an academically-oriented behavioral health center of excellence.
This key leadership position will provide senior oversight of hospital-based services at South Oaks Hospital. The Medical Director will work collaboratively with hospital and health system leaders to meet and exceed the department's organizational, clinical, operational, and financial goals. Responsibilities include education, supervision, strategic development, and process improvement initiatives.
South Oaks Hospital is a 202-bed behavioral health hospital located on the Nassau/Suffolk border of Long Island. For well over a century, we have established a local and national reputation for delivering high quality and compassionate care, crisis management, treatment and recovery services. Our extensive range of services for children, teens, and adults focuses on improving our patients’ functioning at home, work and school, and in their relationships with family, friends and others. Our inpatient services include child, adolescent and adult units, as well as substance use disorder treatments, including services tailored for healthcare professionals dealing with addictions. Our outpatient services include comprehensive behavioral services for young people ages 5 to 21, an adolescent partial hospitalization program, and treatment for substance use disorders for adolescents and adults.
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
Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer with 23 hospitals, 830 outpatient facilities and more than 16,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 76,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,800 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies.
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 permeate our educational and clinical initiatives. We have set a goal to make sure every one of our physicians receive 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.
Qualified candidates should forward their CV to Victoria DiCanio at vdicanio@northwell.edu and Alice Perkins at aperkins2@northwell.edu.