Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Westchester Medical Center; Town of Mount Pleasant (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Westchester Medical Center seeks a compassionate Emergency Department / CL Psychiatrist to join our behavioral health services team. You will perform rapid psychiatric assessments, crisis intervention, and treatment planning for patients presenting during evenings, overnight, and weekends with behavioral health, substance use, and psychiatric emergencies in a fast-paced ED.

You will also provide CL psychiatry consults to inpatient medical services as needed.

Qualifications

• MD/DO degree required and NY medical license eligible or active.
• Board certification/eligibility in Psychiatry required or pending eligibility.
• Completion of an accredited Psychiatry Residency Program.
• Experience in emergency or consultation-liaison psychiatry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct emergency and CL psychiatric evaluations and risk assessments.
• Manage patients with psychiatric, substance use, and behavioral crises.
• Provide crisis stabilization, med management, and treatment recommendations.
• Determine appropriate levels of care: inpatient, observation, outpatient, community-based.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe discharge and continuity of care.
• Support quality improvement, patient safety, and behavioral health initiatives.
• Participate in development of innovative psychiatric emergency services.
• Provide supervision/teaching to residents, fellows, and medical students.

Skills

Emergency psychiatry

Consultation-liaison psychiatry

Crisis intervention

Team collaboration

Clinical judgment

Education

MD/DO from accredited program

Board Certification or Eligibility in Psychiatry

New York State medical license

Psychiatry residency completed

Job description

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.

About Us

WMCHealth is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. 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 [e-mail]

About Us

WMC Advanced Physician Services PC 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