NYU Langone Health

Psychiatrists will provide care to residents within NYC's secure juvenile detention centers and non-secure detention group homes to perform diagnostic evaluations, provide medication management and individual therapy to residents, and assist and guide detention and contracted agency staff in providing trauma-informed care for youth in detention.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

Perform comprehensive diagnostic psychiatric evaluations of detention residents including recommendations for medications, individual, group, and family therapy, and completion of court-ordered evaluations.
Prescribe medications and provide medication management and continuity of care for residents in the detention system.
Provide multi-modal individual therapy as indicated.
Provide emergency evaluations and refer for inpatient hospitalization when indicated.
Lead and participate in multidisciplinary clinical rounds, composed of psychiatry, psychology, social workers, mental health clinicians, and creative arts therapists.
Participate in treatment planning, milieu treatment, and aftercare referrals.
Assist in crisis management with facility staff.
Coordinate care with contracted medical care providers.
Participate in multidisciplinary family meetings.

Board certified in adult and child and adolescent psychiatry.
Licensed in NY state

NYU Langone Medical Center is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We require applications to be completed online.

Clinical Psychiatrist - Juvenile Justice - Military Veterans

New York, NY

New York, NY