**Job Description** **Exciting opportunity to join an expanding clinical service at the new Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center on the Lower East Side!** The Mount Sinai Health System is looking for a psychiatrist to join our team in a new transformational, state-of-the-art, community-oriented facility for behavioral health with integrated services for mental health, substance abuse, physical health, and social service needs on the Lower East Side. The Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center offers opportunities for leadership, quality development, teaching, and scholarship within the Department of Psychiatry and the Mount Sinai Health System. The Lower East Side is in New York County and is one of the best places to live in New York. This vibrant downtown neighborhood is a popular nightlife destination—its streets are lined with trendy places to drink, dance and hear live music. Many of the area’s museums and restaurants serve as reminders of its immigrant history. The Comprehensive Evaluation Service (CES) and new Express Behavioral Health Care Service (EC) offer scheduled and walk-in outpatient evaluations. This “no wrong door” approach provides a single point of entry into the full-continuum of ambulatory services offered by the Center. As a member of a multidisciplinary team, this full-time Psychiatrist position in CES and EC provides direct care to patients who present for an evaluation or short-term, outpatient treatment and supervises other clinical staff and trainees. The psychiatrist reports to the Medical Director of CES/EC. **Qualifications** **Clinical/Technical/Service** 1. Based on best practices, assumes the evaluation, treatment and supervision of outpatients at the discretion/direction of the Medical Director 2. Correctly documents all outpatient services in a timely and accurate manner. 3. Supervises the work of assigned residents or fellows; reviews and attests to the resident documentation, and directly treats patients 4. Signs medical records and related patient care documents as required by regulations 5. Available to collaborate with other health care professionals as assigned by the CES Medical Director 6. Participates in the peer review process 7. Participates in departmental meetings 8. Participates in direct patient care activities as specified in the delineation of privileges and contract 9. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the patients served 10. Participates in Quality and Safety initiatives of the department These duties may be modified from time to time by the Chair/Director based on Institutional needs. Compensation range from 240K to 265K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits) **Salary Disclosure Information:** Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital/community need. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits. **Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:** **Alex Cano** **Executive Director Physician Recruitment** **Mount Sinai Health System** **Alex.cano@mountsinai.org** **Responsibilities** + Oversight of day-to-day CES/EC clinical services and operations to ensure the efficient and effective operation of the program + Provides clinical coverage of the CES/EC Service and associated services when needed + Supervises clinical staff including psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatry residents, and psychologists + Monitors clinical staff training needs and implements quality improvement strategies + Collaborates with the Medical Director of CES in quality and safety initiatives + Ensures complete and timely documentation + Contributes to regulatory compliance and continual accreditation readiness + Collaborates across MSBHC services to facilitate access to evaluations including ambulatory services, inpatient behavioral health services, medical services, substance use treatment services, and community referrals + Models outstanding professionalism, high quality patient care, educational excellence, and a scholarly approach to work + Contributes to an environment where respectful discussion is welcome **About Us** **Strength Through Diversity** The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: + Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. + Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. + Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! **"** **About the Mount Sinai Health System:** Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time—discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 11 free-standing joint-venture centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida. Hospitals within the System are consistently ranked by Newsweek’s® “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals, Best in State Hospitals, World Best Hospitals and Best Specialty Hospitals” and by U.S. News & World Report's® “Best Hospitals” and “Best Children’s Hospitals.” The Mount Sinai Hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report® “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll for 2023-2024. For more information, visit https://www.mountsinai.org or find Mount Sinai on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.” **EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans**