Psychiatrist - Addiction Services

Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is adding a Psychiatrist - Addiction Services to the group at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi. Jacobi Medical Center is a 457-bed, Level I Trauma Center. To this day, Jacobi remains a respected leader in emergency medicine, trauma surgery, burn care, pediatrics, primary care, and women’s health. The hospital maintains a strong academic affiliation with Albert Einstein College of Medicine to maintain its high healthcare delivery standards.

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.

Addiction Services at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi are comprised of the outpatient addiction clinic, opioid treatment program, and addiction consult service. Specifically, Jacobi’s Addiction Services are led by a multidisciplinary medical team, representing addiction expertise from psychiatry, internal medicine, family medicine, and emergency medicine/medical toxicology. Jacobi’s outpatient addiction clinic provides medical, psychiatric, counseling, and recovery support services, featuring a SUD walk-in clinic, with an integrated opioid treatment program underway. Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine fellows, Psychiatry residents, as well as medical students regularly rotate through Addiction Services. The mission of Jacobi’s Addiction Services is to improve patient access to and engagement in evidence-based care for SUD, including medications for addiction treatment, treatment of co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions, psychosocial counseling, care coordination, harm reduction, and peer advocacy. The Addiction Psychiatrist joining this team at Jacobi will be able to build a diverse outpatient case load and keep up skills in addiction consults as needed. The Addiction Psychiatrist will also advance as a clinical educator and access career growth in quality improvement and medical leadership.

Opportunity Details:

• Provide clinical care for patients in the outpatient addiction clinic with opioid treatment program.
• Diagnose substance use disorders, behavioral addictions, and co-occurring mental health disorders, and recommend treatment that considers levels of care criteria.
• Order and manage 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.
• Monitor the progress of individuals in treatment and review the appropriateness of continued treatment and level of care.
• Contribute to the completion of Treatment Plans and Utilization Reviews.
• Teach and train fellows, residents, and medical students rotating on addiction services as well as preparing didactic presentations as needed.
• Assist with orientation of new physicians and staff in addiction services.
• Participate in Quality Assurance and Process Improvement projects as needed.