Director, Adult Inpatient Psychiatry at South Oaks Hospital

The Department of Psychiatry at South Oaks Hospital is seeking a Director for its Adult Inpatient unit to provide clinical leadership and direct care for our busy unit at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, NY. The ideal candidate is an energetic leader with excellent clinical, teaching, supervisory, and interpersonal skills who is comfortable leading a multidisciplinary team of clinicians. Ideal candidates also possess a skillset appropriate for the management of acute psychiatric patients with attention to service excellence.

Candidate must be BC/BE in Psychiatry, with ACGME approved residency training, and eligible for a NYS medical license. Prior leadership experience preferred but total candidate experience will be considered when reviewing applications. Excellent communication skills required.

South Oaks Hospital is a 202-bed behavioral health hospital located on the Nassau/Suffolk border on Long Island. For well over a century, we have established a local and national reputation for delivering high quality and compassionate care, crisis management, treatment, and recovery services. Our extensive range of inpatient and outpatient services for children, teens, adults, and seniors focuses on improving our patients' functioning at home, work, and school, and in their relationships with family, friends, and others. Our inpatient services include child and adolescent, adult and senior units, as well as substance use or opioid use disorder treatment, including services tailored for healthcare professionals dealing with addiction. Our outpatient services include comprehensive behavioral services for young people ages 5 to 21, an adolescent partial hospitalization program, and treatment for substance use disorder.

Benefits at Northwell Health include:

• Nationally competitive salaries
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Four weeks' vacation plus paid conference/CME time
• Academic appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
• Advanced education opportunities
• College Tuition reimbursement for dependent children

Northwell Health is New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, with 28 hospitals and 1,050 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 103,500 employees - 19,000+ nurses and 12,000+ credentialed physicians, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners - are working to change health care for the better. We're making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.