Staff Psychiatrist
Job no: 538940
Position type: Part Time
Location: Medical Center
Division/Equivalent: CUIMC Administration
School/Unit: CUIMC Student Health Services
Categories: Health/Clinical
- Job Type: Officer of Administration
- Bargaining Unit:
- Regular/Temporary: Regular
- End Date if Temporary:
- Hours Per Week: 20
- Standard Work Schedule:
- Building:
- Salary Range: $90,000 - $100,000
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.
Position Summary
The Staff Psychiatrist provides psychiatric evaluation and treatment of students on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center Campus, participates in the on-call service, and provides crisis intervention, as needed. This is a part-time salaried position.
Responsibilities
- Provide psychiatric evaluation and psychopharmacological treatment as well as consultation and referral to community-based treatment providers when appropriate.
- Provide care in an interpersonally and culturally sensitive manner.
- Document care as prescribed by law and in accordance with best practices.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement.
- Participate in the after-hours emergency on-call service.
- Provide crisis intervention, as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
- Doctorate in Medicine. Completion of an ACGME-accredited residency program in Psychiatry. Candidate will possess a New York State medical license. Candidates will be Board Certified in adult psychiatry.
- Experience working with patients on a psychiatric inpatient unit, or the functional equivalent.
- Demonstrated competence in crisis intervention, assessing need for psychiatric hospitalization, handling psychiatric emergencies, and supervising referral for inpatient care.
- Demonstrated competence in use of best practices for diagnostic evaluation and psychopharmacological treatment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience working in a university mental health service or a comparable healthcare system.
- Prior experience in urgent care coordination and high risk psychological evaluations.
- Prior experience with, and/or additional training in, the psychiatric care of young adults with the following subspecialties: eating disorders, multicultural or cross-cultural treatment, and substance abuse/dependence.
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