About This Role
The Psychiatrist provides culturally competent and evidence-based treatment and support services in a recovery-oriented environment for incarcerated patients. This role involves conducting comprehensive psychiatric assessments, creating treatment plans, and collaborating with correctional facility staff.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric assessments, crisis intervention, and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings
- Create treatment plans including medication management
- Attend meetings with DOCCS medical and executive staff
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with DOCCS
- Assist DOCCS with capacity evaluations
- Respond to behavioral health emergencies within the correctional facility
- Pursue outpatient Court Order Psychiatric Medications (COPM) and Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)
- Conduct Prelease Coordination (PRC) to ensure individuals have mental health resources upon release
Requirements
- Psychiatrist 1: License and current registration to practice medicine in New York State, and completion of a training program in psychiatry approved by the ABPN
- Psychiatrist 2: License and current registration to practice medicine in New York State, and certification in psychiatry approved by the ABPN
Benefits
- Psychiatrist Loan Repayment Program offering up to $120,000
- Supplemental income of up to 50% of salary by volunteering to provide evening, night, and weekend coverage at the inpatient hospital
- Defense and Indemnification Protection, broader in scope than typical medical malpractice coverage
- OMH sponsored Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program
- Professional leave for additional learning activities
- Excellent opportunities for advancement and professional growth
- Generous paid time off
- NYS medical, dental, and vision insurance
- NYS Retirement programs: NYS Pension and Deferred Compensation
Application Process
- Background checks are required
Important Details
- The Central New York Psychiatric Center operates both Forensic Inpatient Operations at Marcy NY, and Corrections-Based Operations for incarcerated individuals with mental illness in the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) custody.
- Forensic Inpatient facility is a 183-bed secure hospital, comprised of sentenced incarcerated individuals who are admitted for inpatient services from various correctional facilities and county jails pursuant to section 402 of Correction Law (CL); non-sentenced incarcerated individuals who are admitted for inpatient services from the county jail only, pursuant to section 508 of the CL; defendants who are adjudicated as not competent to proceed with trial and are remanded to the OMH pursuant to Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) 730.