Psychiatrist

Program Overview

The Support and Connection Center (SCC) is a short-term center for individuals, termed guests, referred by NYPD, BHEARD, OnPointNY, and other outside referral sources to be able to meet with social services, behavioral health, and peer support staff. A psychiatric provider at SCC provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and interdisciplinary collaboration for outside referrals for guests staying at the center.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides direct clinical support and psychiatric care at SCC through psychiatric evaluation and medication management
• Be available for interdisciplinary meetings on the days that they are scheduled clinically at SCC, particularly at the beginning and end of the shift
• Participate in one’s own engagement of the guests on site to be able to build a daily caseload
• Collaborates specifically with nurses onsite, providing oversight for help with admissions, as well as triaging medical questions
• Collaborates with other onsite psychiatric providers for ongoing management of guests
• Participates in SCC’s ongoing quality assurance and audit processes through SCC’s quality assurance coordinator
• Participates in agency-wide Quality Assurance processes, including Incident Review processes, community engagement, Crisis Management and Verbal De-escalation, etc.
• Collaborates and meets regularly with senior management and clinical staff to review relevant changes and policies within SCC
• Provides liaison to regulatory agencies, academic institutions, and to other medical/service agencies when appropriate

Qualifications

• Medical Doctor Degree
• New York State medical license and registration
• DEA license with buprenorphine training
• BLS Certification
• Experience working with community services, homeless adults preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong team orientation

Pay

Salary: $200,000 - $210,000

Schedule

Schedule: 5 Days/week. 35 hours

Benefits

Project Renewal is an equal opportunity employer. Its long-standing policy has been to embrace the equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion or creed, gender (see separately issued Gender Discrimination policy for more detail), physical or mental disability, age (18 and over), military status, arrest record, marital status, domestic partnership status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking, unemployment status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.