Full-Time Inpatient Psychiatrist at South Oaks Hospital

Inpatient Psychiatrist

The Department of Psychiatry at South Oaks Hospital is seeking a full-time inpatient psychiatrist to provide clinical leadership and direct care for our busy unit at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, NY. The ideal candidate is an energetic leader with excellent clinical, teaching, supervisory, and interpersonal skills who is comfortable leading a multidisciplinary team of clinicians. Ideal candidates also possess a skillset appropriate for the management of acute psychiatric patients with attention to service excellence.

Job Description

• Provide clinical leadership and direct care for the inpatient unit
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of clinicians
• Manage acute psychiatric patients with a focus on service excellence

Requirements

• Board-certified or board-eligible in Psychiatry
• ACGME approved residency training
• Eligible for a NYS medical license
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience preferred, but new graduates with the appropriate combination of experience and skills are encouraged to apply

Benefits

• 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

Community Overview

South Oaks Hospital is a 202-bed behavioral health hospital located on the Nassau/Suffolk border on Long Island. For well over a century, we have established a local and national reputation for delivering high quality and compassionate care, crisis management, treatment, and recovery services. Our extensive range of inpatient and outpatient services for children, teens, adults, and seniors focuses on improving our patients' functioning at home, work, and school, and in their relationships with family, friends, and others. Our inpatient services include child and adolescent, adult and senior units, as well as substance use or opioid use disorder treatment, including services tailored for healthcare professionals dealing with addiction. Our outpatient services include comprehensive behavioral services for young people ages 5 to 21, an adolescent partial hospitalization program, and treatment for substance use disorder.

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 - 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 receives 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.