• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 20
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $120,000 - $125,0000

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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