Medical Director

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.   Reasons you’ll love working with us:   If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here.  Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.   With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.    Generous vacation time and paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.   We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.   You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.   How you can make a bigger difference:    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) to which they are assigned.  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 assigned to provide psychiatric support at a CCBHC by partnering to lead clinical team meetings such as high-risk meetings, case conferences, and monthly utilization reviews.  They will also assist with providing prescription coverage when providers at the hub are not working, assisting with clinical consultations, and escalation pathways. 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 all age ranges. 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.   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:

Salary : $275,000