Addiction Psychiatry - Physician at Jacobi and North Bronx - Physician Affiliate Group

Addiction Psychiatry - Physician at Jacobi and North Central Bronx - Physician Affiliate Group of New York summary:

This position is for a board-eligible or board-certified Addiction Medicine Psychiatrist at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Medical Center, providing outpatient addiction and opioid treatment services using evidence-based practices. The role involves diagnosing and treating substance use and co-occurring disorders, medication management, patient education, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. It also includes teaching responsibilities and participation in quality assurance, with a focus on patient-centered, culturally sensitive care in a large urban public health system.

Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is adding an Addiction Medicine Psychiatrist to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Medical Center. NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi is modern, state of the art, level 1 Trauma Center located in an attractive and safe residential Bronx neighborhood just 20 minutes north of Manhattan. It is affiliated with North Central Bronx Hospital and a teaching site and academic affiliate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine .

It offers a full continuum of Acute Cre Inpatient and Outpatient Services in diverse medical and surgical specialties, including Psychiatry. The Department of Psychiatry has 89 adult acute inpatient beds, a CPEP, a C/L Service, an Adult Ambulatory Practice, and a Community-Based Assertive Community Treatment Program. The department employes evidence-based best practices in providing the highest quality care to its patients, in a patient-centered approach that is respectful of their individuality, culture, and community.

The mission of NYC Health + Hospitals is to extend equally to all New Yorkers, regardless of the ability to pay, comprehensive health services of the highest quality in an atmosphere of humane care, dignity, and respect. Their Values are built on a foundation of social and racial equity and has established the ICARE standards for all staff.

NYC Health + Hospitals is the nation’s largest municipal health care delivery system in the United States. Dedicated to providing the highest quality health care services to all New Yorkers with compassion, dignity and respect, and regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.

Opportunity Details:

• Under the direction of the Medical Director of Addiction Services, provides clinical care for patients in the outpatient addiction clinic and opioid treatment program.
• Conducts comprehensive psychiatric and substance use history with biopsychosocial assessment.
• Diagnose substance use disorders and non-substance related addiction disorders and recommend treatment that considers levels of care criteria.
• Identify mental health and medical conditions related to addiction care.
• Orders and manages medications for addiction treatment, including for opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder.
• Orders and manages pharmacotherapeutic interventions for co-occurring disorders as clinically indicated.
• May administer medications in accordance with established policies/procedures and State and Federal regulations.
• Provides opioid overdose education, naloxone training, and distribution of other harm reduction resources to patients and their friends and family.
• Orders, reviews, and act upon lab results and other medical data in a timely manner.
• Conducts follow-up, facilitate care coordination, and make appropriate referrals as necessary.
• Establishes therapeutic rapport with patients; uses motivational interviewing and enhancement therapy to engage patients in their treatment and recovery.
• Observes confidentiality rules and respects rights of patients.
• Communicates clearly, accurately, and regularly with multi-disciplinary treatment team, sharing on-going assessment and impressions.
• Identifies clinical issues to be addressed and recommends treatment goals, objectives and interventions with expected time frames.
• Monitors the progress of individuals in treatment and reviews the appropriateness of continued treatment and level of care
• Contributes to the completion of Treatment Plans and Utilization Reviews.
• Participates in daily team…