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PART-TIME CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST, SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH

Northwell Health- Long Island, New York

Northwell Health is recruiting a part-time BE/BC Child and Adolescent psychiatrist to join the school mental health team in Nassau and Suffolk County. 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 growing school mental health service as a consultant psychiatrist in our partnering school districts to provide formal psychiatric evaluations in the schools on site or virtually. The consultant psychiatrist is supported by a multidisciplinary team at the Behavioral Health Center, which is an ambulatory crisis service that provides urgent assessments and short-term crisis care to the students of partnering districts. The clinical team includes physicians, psychologists, mental health counselors, care coordinators and administrative support. In addition to providing clinical care for students and consultation to schools, our team also offers professional and community education, curricular support, and care coordination to the participating school districts. Travel includes to our partnering school districts in Nassau and Suffolk- county.

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 28 hospitals and 1,050 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 103,500 employees – 19,000+ nurses and 12,000+ credentialed physicians, 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. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Applicants must be Child and Adolescent Psychiatry BE/BC. School mental health or crisis/emergency psychiatry experience preferred.

Benefits at Northwell Health include:

ü  Nationally competitive salaries

ü  Comprehensive benefits package

ü  Four weeks’ vacation plus paid conference/CME time

ü  Academic appointment in Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

ü  Advanced education opportunities

ü  College Tuition reimbursement for dependent children