Medical Director

Make a bigger difference


PURPOSE:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families, to children, teens, and adults. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of others.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The CCBHC Medical Director is a highly skilled psychiatrist who provides leadership and guidance to clinicians and programs at a Coordinated Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC). The Medical Director will partner with the CCBHC Senior Director and other clinical and administrative leadership to ensure and promote the provision of integrated care. The Medical Director will report to the Chief of Psychiatry and will work in a traditional clinical role up to 20% of the time.

The Medical Director will lead clinical team meetings such as high-risk meetings, case conferences, and monthly utilization reviews in partnership with other clinical leadership. They will also assist with providing prescription coverage when providers at the hub are not working, assisting with clinical consultations, and escalation pathways. The CCBHC Medical director should have extensive experience with substance use treatment and possess a Federal DATA 2000 waiver (buprenorphine-certified).

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• supports psychiatric best practices at the CCBHC including driving process and quality improvement processes related to HEDIS & MIPS measures.
• support new practitioners joining the CCBHC by providing a clinical orientation of new hires, including support in the use of the electronic health record, and navigating a complex system.
• provide practitioners at the hub with chart reviews, focusing on strengths and areas for improvement
• supports recruitment efforts by interviewing psychiatric candidates for the CCBHC
• supports the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NPP) Residency either by providing back up to preceptors in the residency when coverage is needed and/or assisting with didactics
• Supervise NPP Students who are currently enrolled in graduate programs seeing clients at a CCBHC
• Supervise Psych providers working at the CCBHC.
• Provides direct client services.
• Partners with CCBHC site-based leadership to guide and oversee clinical operations

CORE COMPETENCIES
• Extensive experience providing psychiatric care, preferably with a wide range of diagnoses and demographic groups including substance use disorders.
• Demonstrated commitment to, ability for, and experience in training new providers.
• Comfort supervising students and newly graduated NPPs, including some NPPs coming from academic programs where they were not allowed to independently treat clients at all.
• Comfort with providing supervision via remote, technology-based systems like TEAMS.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:
• Active New York State medical license and DEA. Approved PECOS and OPRA status in NYS required.
• Specialty or considerable experience in Substance Use Treatment required with a preference for subspecialty board certification in addiction psychiatry from the American Board of Medical Specialties; an addiction certification from the American Society of Addiction Medicine; a certification by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM); or a subspecialty board certification in Addiction Medicine from the American Osteopathic Association.

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:
• Strong Knowledge of MS Office Suite

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:
• The candidate should be able to read documents for analytical purposes such as computer information, software, computer graphic design programs, etc.
• The candidate should be able to travel to program sites, as needed, within NYC.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT
• The work environment involves no physical risk or hazardous conditions.
• To perform the essential functions of this job, the candidate is routinely required to sit.

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:
• Generous paid time off in addition to agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:


We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.