Job Description

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center (PPC), an Office of Mental Health (OMH) Joint Commission accredited facility, is recruiting a Board-Certified Psychiatrist to serve as the Clinical Lead on their Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team. The ACT team provides comprehensive care that is community-based and occurs in the individual’s home. The goal of the ACT team is to maintain care to the individual in their natural environment and reduce demand on emergency departments and inpatient hospital services. This position is based out of PPC’s Patchogue, NY clinic.

As a Psychiatrist on the ACT Team, you will have an approximate caseload of 68 patients who reside in Patchogue, NY and the surrounding area and will provide comprehensive, patient centered, and recovery focused treatments to individuals, including:

• Meeting with clients daily and participating in ACT Team morning meeting
• Conducting comprehensive psychiatric assessments
• Creating treatment plans including medication management
• Providing crisis response and intervention
• Monitoring Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) patients and responding to AOT orders
• Providing Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment
• Teaching Psychiatry Residents
• Supervising Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners at the Yaphank Clinic

About PPC:

PPC serves the complex psychiatric needs of individuals with mental illness in Nassau and Suffolk County. PPC has a recovery-oriented treatment philosophy and provides a wide array of services including behavioral modalities, animal assisted therapy, and ECT. PPC is affiliated with several academic institutions and provides clinical training to Psychiatric Residents and Fellows.

If you would like to join PPC and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer the following benefits and opportunities:

• Psychiatrist Loan Repayment Program offering up to $120,000
• Supplemental income of up to 50% of salary by volunteering to provide evening, night, and weekend coverage on PPC’s inpatient units located in West Brentwood, NY
• Defense and Indemnification Protection- broader in scope than typical medical malpractice coverage
• OMH sponsored Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program
• Professional leave for additional learning activities
• Excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth
• Generous paid time off
• NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
• NYS Retirement programs – NYS Pension and Deferred Compensation

Minimum Qualifications:

Psychiatrist 2: License and current registration to practice medicine in New York State, and certification in psychiatry approved by the ABPN.

Additional Comments:

The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. OMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, OMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring OMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. OMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at [email protected].

In order to be hired and to maintain your employment, candidate’s cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists. If appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists, you may be terminated from your employment.

If appointed, you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.

Background checks are required.

This position is eligible for a Downstate Adjustment of $4,000.

Job Tags

Similar Jobs