Clinical Director - Psychiatrist

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester•Town/Village of Harrison, NY

About The Position

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, a division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center, is hiring a full-time Clinical Director for its White Plains Behavioral Health Center, serving the White Plains area of Westchester. The Clinical Director establishes and maintains the program's treatment approach and quality-improvement activities, ensures that patients receive care consistent with high best-practice standards, and provides clinical leadership and teaching to interdisciplinary staff and trainees. The role supervises direct-care medical staff, including PNPs and other psychiatrists, and provides diagnostic assessments, treatment-needs evaluations, and direct psychiatric care responsive to patients and the physician's specialty expertise. The Clinical Director collaborates with families and others involved in patient treatment. Working closely with the administrative Program Director, the Clinical Director helps oversee clinic operations and program requirements, including budget goals, and fosters an integrated, mutually supportive multidisciplinary team within the clinic and across the St. Vincent's/St. Joseph's hospital system. The position also collaborates with the White Plains Hospital Primary Care clinic in the same building and other affiliated medical services to treat mutual patients. A faculty appointment at New York Medical College may be possible for candidates interested in teaching in the newly accredited psychiatry residency training program. The position is 35 hours per week. Salary is competitive, and benefits depend on the number of hours worked.

Requirements

Board certification is preferred; board-eligible candidates will also be considered.

Nice To Haves

Board certification.
Interest in teaching in the psychiatry residency training program, with a possible faculty appointment at New York Medical College.

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain the program's treatment approach and quality-improvement activities.
Ensure patients are treated in accordance with high best-practice standards.
Provide clinical leadership and teaching to interdisciplinary staff and program trainees.
Supervise direct-care medical staff, including PNPs and other psychiatrists.
Organize program rounds and staff meetings.
Perform diagnostic assessments and evaluate patients' treatment needs.
Provide direct psychiatric care responsive to patient needs and reflective of the physician's specialty expertise.
Collaborate with family members and other individuals or agencies involved in patient treatment.
Work with the administrative Program Director to oversee clinic operations and program requirements, including budgetary goals.
Foster an integrated, mutually supportive multidisciplinary team within the clinic and across the St. Vincent's/St. Joseph's hospital system.
Work with the White Plains Hospital Primary Care clinic and affiliated medical services to treat mutual patients.