CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY INPATIENT
Company: Physician Affiliate Group of New York
Location: Brooklyn
Posted on: October 23, 2024
Job Description:
Job Details Kings County - Brooklyn, NY Regular Full-Time
$247,200.00 - $257,500.00 Salary/year 1 PhysicianDescription
Employed by PAGNY for NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, Kings
County Hospital operates a world-renowned Level 1 Trauma Center,
one of only three in Brooklyn, which serves 2.6 million residents
of Brooklyn and Staten Island. The hospital is academically
affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center and trains their
medical students and OBGYN residents.
The following information aims to provide potential candidates with
a better understanding of the requirements for this role.
Kings County is located in the East Flatbush/Prospect-Lefferts
section of Brooklyn, close to the 2 and 5 subways. Our patients are
diverse, with the majority being Afro-Caribbean. Most of our
patients are native English speakers. Knowledge of French/Haitian
Creole is helpful, but not required.
Provide clinical and administrative supervision to all Attending
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and allied health professionals on
the relevant acute inpatient service (child inpatient).
- Oversee relevant acute inpatient service functioning including,
but not limited to:
- Policies and procedures regulating delivery of patient care on
the service
- Coordination of care between disciplines and functioning of
interdisciplinary treatment teams.
- Supervision and coordination of inpatient leadership.
- Establishing, monitoring and maintaining professional standards
of work in collaboration with other disciplines coordination of
professional staff schedules to ensure adequate coverage at all
times.
- Monitoring workload and work assignments and effecting staff
and program changes to ensure highest quality of patient
care.
- Liaises with other departments like the CPEP, medical inpatient
and ED, and transfer to other facilities.
- Ensure timely application and court presentation for retention
and treatment over-rides.
- Quality assurance, performance improvement and regulatory
affairs:
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of standards for certification
by regulatory agencies.
- Work with acute inpatient staff to ensure compliance with
corrective action plans.
- Participates in relevant Pl & QA activities and initiatives,
both locally and in collaboration with hospital wide quality
endeavors.
- Maintains awareness of performance improvement indicator and
leads interventions and initiatives to meet goals for the
service.
- Prepares annual report for the service.
- In collaboration with risk management reviews major incidents
on the service and leads and monitors relevant corrective action
when needed.
- Works with all staff to ensure timely and adequate medical
record keeping and monitors the quality of documentation.
- Provides clinical consultation and supervision as needed to all
staff on the acute inpatient service.
- Conducts and coordinates tier reviews as per policy
- Maintains focus on key strategic priorities including patient
experience, access to care, increased market share, and improving
financial stability
- Education and supervision:
- Maintain an updated and comprehensive set of psychiatric
practice guidelines including administration of medication in
accordance with generally accepted professional standards that
address the indication, contradictions screening and monitoring
procedures, dose requirements and expected outcomes.
- Ensure and monitor that the pharmacological components of
treatment plan reflect the exercise of professional judgement for
the medication treatment including diagnosis, target symptoms, risk
and benefits of particular medication, and consideration of
alternate treatments.
- Ensure that the rationale for each patient's course of
treatment is documented by the physician
- Include all above in standards of work expected of Attending
and Nurse Practitioner and monitor and reinforce said standards of
work
- Teach and supervise psychiatry trainees and medical
students
Qualifications
- Must be Board Certified or Board Eligible in Child
Psychiatry
- M.D. or D.O. from an accredited school of medicine
- Completed residency training in an accredited program within
Psychiatry
- License to practice medicine in the State of New York
- Completed Fellowship training in an accredited program in Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Board Certified/eligible in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Exceptional Benefits Include:
- Competitive compensation package
- 10% 401K company contribution after one year of service, with
3% company contribution starting day one
- Choice of a three tiered, starting at FREE medical plans
starting day one
- Excellent dental insurance including orthodontics coverage
starting day one
- Generous paid time off program
- CME days and dollars
- Eligibility for loan forgiveness through the National Student
Debt Forgiveness Center
- Visa candidates are considered
- Occurrence-based Medical Malpractice policy coverage
- Salary Amount or Range: $247,200-257,500
Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is one of the largest
multi-disciplinary groups in the country whose main purpose is to
nurture and embolden the healthcare providers who take care of the
most fragile and vulnerable patients in New York City. PAGNY is
comprised of over 4,000 physicians and healthcare professionals who
provide services to NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H), the largest
public health system in the United States. Our practitioners are
highly skilled professionals with outstanding credentials who
deliver the highest level of quality healthcare to patients
throughout New York City.
PAGNY has a strong commitment to the principles of diversity and,
in that spirit, actively encourages applications from groups
underrepresented in healthcare
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
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