Westchester Medical Center is seeking a compassionate, collaborative, and clinically skilled Emergency Department / CL Psychiatrist to join our growing behavioral health services team. In this critical role, you will provide rapid psychiatric assessment, crisis intervention, and treatment planning for patients presenting evenings, overnight and weekends with behavioral health, substance use, and psychiatric emergencies in a fast-paced emergency department environment. You will also provide consultation-liaison psychiatry services to the hospital's inpatient medical services as needed.

As an integral member of the emergency care and medical/surgical teams, you will work alongside emergency and med/surg physicians, nurses, and behavioral health clinicians to ensure safe, timely, and effective care for some of our community's most vulnerable patients.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct emergency and consultation-liaison psychiatric evaluations and risk assessments.
• Manage patients experiencing psychiatric, substance use, and behavioral health crises.
• Provide crisis stabilization, medication management, and treatment recommendations, including for patients admitted to medical units with co-morbid psychiatric illnesses.
• Determine appropriate levels of psychiatric care, including inpatient admission, observation, outpatient treatment, and community-based services.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate safe discharge and continuity of care.
• Support quality improvement, patient safety, and behavioral health initiatives.
• Participate in the development of innovative psychiatric emergency services.
• Provide supervision and teaching to psychiatric residents, fellows and medical students.

Qualifications:

• MD or DO from an accredited institution.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry.
• Unrestricted New York State medical license (or eligibility).
• Completion of an accredited Psychiatry Residency Program.
• Experience in emergency psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, crisis services, or related behavioral health settings preferred.
• Strong clinical judgment, collaboration skills, and commitment to patient-centered care.

Facility Info:

Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) has been a leading provider of comprehensive behavioral health services for the Hudson Valley for more than 90 years. As the region's leading provider of Mental Health and Addictions Treatment Services, we offer a full spectrum of inpatient, outpatient, community, and emergency care for individuals and families. World-renowned medical services provided by Westchester Medical Center, MidHudson Regional Hospital, and its other affiliated hospitals, combined with strong clinical leadership from the Department of Psychiatry at New York Medical College, keep WMCHealth's behavioral health programs at the forefront of meeting the needs of those affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits, including paid vacation time, CME, and malpractice insurance
• An academic appointment to New York Medical College, if appropriate
• Collaboration with and support of an integrated team of Behavioral Health professionals

Other:

For more information about this opportunity, contact Andrea Ruggiero, Manager Advanced Clinical Recruitment by email at [redacted]

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package that includes:

• Health Insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Flexible Savings Account
• Paid Time Off
• Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement