Child Psychiatrist

Child Psychiatrist Position

Liberty Resources Integrated Health Care is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center in Syracuse, serving children, families, and adults with behavioral health challenges including co-occurring substance abuse.

The Child Psychiatrist provides psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment to children, adolescents, and families within an outpatient mental health clinic setting. The Child Psychiatrist ensures high-quality, evidence-based, and trauma-informed psychiatric services while supporting compliance with all regulatory standards.

Clinical Care

1. Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and ongoing medication management for children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and developmental disorders.
2. Monitor follow-up care via review of medical records, lab test results, and contact with the care team as needed.
3. Collaborate with therapists, case managers, primary care providers, and families to develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
4. Provide crisis intervention, risk assessment, and safety planning as clinically indicated.
5. Maintain accurate and timely documentation in accordance with organizational policies, Medicaid, OMH/OASAS, and other regulatory requirements.
6. Commitment to trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and family-centered care.

Compliance and Quality

1. Monitor prescribing practices, safety protocols, and clinical outcomes
2. Participate in chart reviews and compliance activities as requested.
3. Stay current on evidence-based practices, emerging treatment, and updates in child psychiatry.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

1. Values service, excellence, and responsibility, seeing opportunity where others see barriers to success. Stiving to create and sustain an inclusive environment where everyone feels a strong sense of belonging.
2. Completes all required documentation in timelines in accordance with program standards.
3. Identifies and reports on Untoward Incidents as required.
4. Participates in and complete all required trainings.
5. Carries out agency policies and procedures.
6. Perform other related duties as assigned.

Child Psychiatrist Qualifications

• MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited residency in Psychiatry and fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Board Certification (or Board Eligibility with intent to certify) in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Current, unrestricted license to practice medicine in New York State.
• DEA registration
• At least 3 years of clinical experience in child/adolescent psychiatry, preferably in an outpatient or community mental health setting.
• Strong clinical expertise in psychopharmacology and developmental psychopathology.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Proficiency with electronic health records (EHR), preferably NextGen or similar systems.

Salary: Starting at $255,000.

Liberty Resources Clinics are approved sites for the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (Tier 3). Psychiatrists and NPPs are eligible to apply to this program. Professional development and career growth opportunities, manageable caseload sizes, supportive work-life balance culture, competitive time off package, 401k Plan, Health Benefits, Paid Family Leave, EAP.

Liberty Resources is committed to creating a diverse inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Liberty Resources offers equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, parental status, housing status, source of income or military status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local EEO laws.

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