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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.
Benefits at Northwell Health include:
- Nationally competitive salaries
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Four weeks' vacation plus paid conference/CME time
- Academic appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
- Advanced education opportunities
- College Tuition reimbursement for dependent children
Northwell Health is New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, with 21 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. Experience a career well cared for and make a difference in the lives of our community.
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 Alice Perkins at aperkins2@northwell.edu.
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