Internal Medicine - Physician - Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, Inpatient Substance Use Disorders Treatment Program - Manhattan, NY

Job Description

Description

Exciting Opportunity at the New Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center on the Lower East Side of New York City.

The Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center is seeking a dynamic physician for our expanding substance use disorders inpatient treatment service at the new, state-of-the-art, community-oriented behavioral health center that includes integrated services for mental health, substance abuse, physical health, and social services located on the Lower East Side of New York City.

This $140M newly constructed center represents the largest private investment in behavioral health in the history of New York State.

As part of the Mount Sinai Health System’s Psychiatry service line with faculty members from the Icahn School of Medicine, the Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center serves as a major hub for clinical care, training, and research.

The Department of Psychiatry is strongly committed to providing integrated, patient-centered care.

The Lower East Side in New York County and is one of the best places to live in the City. 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.

Responsibilities

The Attending Physician provides clinical services, leadership of a multidisciplinary team, and teaching / supervision of trainees in the department’s inpatient substance use treatment program.

This recently opened unit provides care to individuals who can benefit from inpatient detoxification and rehabilitation services.

The attending physician partners with nursing, department leadership, and the clinical team to ensure the delivery of high-quality care focused on evidence-based practices, measurable outcomes, and the patient experience.

As a key member of the leadership team, the Medical Director cultivates positive relationships across the department and health system and is aligned with the mission, vision, and values of the Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, and the Mount Sinai Health System.

Stewardship and ongoing cultivation of a culture of respect and outstanding patient experience are central to performance in this position.

Administrative and clinical responsibilities include the following :

• Leads and supervises a clinical team
• Provides clinical care to inpatients with substance use disorders
• Ensures that services are high-quality, efficient, and patient-centered
• Manages clinical operations in partnership with program, department, and hospital leadership
• Interfaces with other services to ensure seamless patient care delivery and communication among providers
• Plans and facilitates regularly scheduled staff meetings; contributes to departmental grand rounds and other presentations and trainings
• Conducts performance reviews and provides feedback to clinicians
• Supervises and teaches psychiatry residents, fellows, and other trainees
• Facilitates and collaborates in the recruitment of faculty and staff
• Completes documentation in a timely manner

The physician cultivates positive relationships across the department and with hospital leadership related to patient care, policies and procedures, risk management, and other collaborative efforts.

Stewardship and ongoing cultivation of a culture of respect and an outstanding patient experience are central to this position.

Qualifications

• Medical Degree from an Accredited Medical School
• New York Medical License
• Board Eligible or Board Certified in Addiction Medicine or Addiction Psychiatry
• Committed to Mount Sinai and the communities we serve
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• A desire to participate in a team-oriented, patient-centered health system

Compensation range $255K - $280K (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

Employer Description

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.

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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.

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