NYU Brooklyn CPEP Psychiatrist (Per Diem)

General Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive psychiatric emergency evaluations for patients presenting with acute psychiatric, behavioral, and substance use emergencies.
• Assess suicide risk, violence risk, capacity, and determine the need for involuntary evaluation, observation, or hospitalization in accordance with New York State Mental Hygiene Law.
• Develop differential diagnoses and formulate evidence-based treatment and disposition plans.
• Initiate and manage psychopharmacologic treatment, including medication reconciliation and bridge prescribing when appropriate.
• Provide crisis intervention, stabilization, brief psychotherapy, and behavioral management.
• Collaborate closely with Emergency Department physicians, nursing staff, social workers, psychiatric nurse practitioners, security personnel, and consulting medical and surgical services.
• Coordinate safe patient dispositions, including inpatient psychiatric admission, extended observation, outpatient referral, substance use treatment, ACT teams, mobile crisis services, and other community-based behavioral health programs.
• Communicate effectively with patients, families, outpatient providers etc. to facilitate continuity of care.
• Supervise and teach psychiatry residents, fellows, medical students, nurse practitioners, and other learners as assigned.
• Participate in departmental quality improvement, patient safety, and educational initiatives.

Specific Responsibilities

• Evaluate voluntary and involuntary psychiatric patients presenting to the CPEP.
• Psychiatric evaluations for patients presenting to the CPEP or for Emergency Department patients requiring psychiatric evaluation.
• Manage psychiatric emergencies, including agitation, psychosis, mania, severe depression, suicidality, intoxication, withdrawal, and behavioral disturbances using evidence-based de-escalation techniques and pharmacologic interventions.
• Determine the appropriate level of psychiatric care, including discharge with outpatient follow-up, extended observation, inpatient psychiatric admission, medical admission with psychiatric consultation, or transfer to another psychiatric facility when appropriate.
• Complete all required legal documentation, including emergency admission certificates, involuntary retention paperwork, assisted outpatient treatment documentation when applicable, and other documentation required under New York State Mental Hygiene Law.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) from an accredited medical school.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited Psychiatry residency.
• Demonstrated clinical competence in psychiatric emergency evaluation, crisis intervention, psychopharmacology, and multidisciplinary team-based care.
• Excellent clinical judgment, communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Current unrestricted New York State medical license.
• DEA registration.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working in a Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP), Psychiatric Emergency Service (PES), emergency psychiatry, emergency department psychiatric consultation service, or other high-acuity psychiatric setting is strongly preferred.
• Experience evaluating patients under New York State Mental Hygiene Law, including involuntary psychiatric admissions and emergency psychiatric evaluations.
• Experience supervising psychiatry residents, fellows, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or medical students.
• Familiarity with New York State Office of Mental Health regulations, psychiatric emergency risk assessment, crisis intervention, and community behavioral health systems.