Podiatry Faculty Position at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

The Department of Orthopedic Surgery at NYU Langone Health is seeking a full-time Podiatrist to join the team at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. The Podiatrist will provide comprehensive podiatric care in both inpatient and outpatient settings, supporting the mission of NYU Langone Health and NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. The ideal candidate will demonstrate excellence in clinical care, patient education, interdisciplinary collaboration, and resident teaching.

Responsibilities include:

• Educates patient and family to facilitate and promote healthy adjustment to new or changed health patterns.
• Supports the mission, philosophy, standards, goals and objectives of the institution, department, and clinical service.
• Plans and organizes care to meet individual patient needs and to ensure appropriate clinical resource utilization per protocols, pathways, and other means.
• Works collaboratively with the multiple interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement the therapeutic plan of care for a group of patients and ensure communication with family members.
• Participates in the development and revision of interdisciplinary and hospital standards, patient, and family education materials as relevant to area of practice and expertise.
• Works collaboratively to maintain timely and appropriate communication with family members, house staff, other disciplines, and ancillary services.
• Provides consultation about the therapeutic regimen to the nursing staff responsible for the patients care in the hospital setting.
• Facilitates patient's throughput and efficient process during patients' entire admission and discharge while either under the Podiatry service or as a consultative following.
• Manage both ambulatory and inpatient medical & surgical documentation for Podiatry patients to assure all necessary documents, notes evaluations, consents, and surgical pathway workflows are monitored and completed.
• Manage daily progress notes on Podiatric Service inpatients either via consultative or direct admission to the service.
• Completion of Admission and Discharge summaries.
• Completion of Operative notes within 24 hours.
• Coverage of the service as delegated for cycle of thirty-day periods including weekends.
• Participates in designated activities related to professional practice standards.
• Prescribes in-patient and discharge medications according to New York State law, including controlled substances with DEA authorization.
• Prescribes durable medical equipment devices, physical and occupational therapy, and home health services per practice protocol.
• Functions as a respectful member of the health care team.
• Promotes own professional growth and development in clinical role.
• Maintains current expertise in area of practice.
• Completion all clinical notes within 48 hours and inpatient notes within end of visit period with preference to same day.
• Review EPIC In Basket daily, responding accordingly to requests, lab review confirmations and staff messages and replying to patient messages within 72 hours.
• The provider is expected to participate in all aspects of care as it related to Correctional Health Outpatient and Inpatient clinical areas.
• Candidates will be required to actively participate in a residency driven program and is expected to be part of the training curriculum of both Podiatric & non-Podiatric students & residents.
• Candidates will be required to actively participate in all areas of patient care including Outpatient, Inpatient ("Rounds"), On-Call (including weekends and holidays), and collaborative service line clinical areas.
• Candidate is expected to participate in Call Coverage on a rotating basis with other staff Podiatrist based on a block schedule as determined by the Chief of Service or Designee based on the departments needs at the time.
• The candidate will be responsible for responding to and assuring proper follow-up on Podiatric referrals which include (but not limited to) eConsult's, Emergency Department and in-house referrals.
• All other duties assigned by the supervisor or designee.

Salary: $181,860*

* The salary listed is for full-time employment and does not include incentive compensation or benefits.

• Minimum of 3 - 5 years' experience is required in Podiatric surgery which includes both forefoot and rearfoot procedures, (consideration may be made to include a percentage of previous residency surgical cases but they must include documented rearfoot cases where candidate was a PGY II or greater and the primary resident).
• Graduation from a PMSR-RRA residency program or equivalent.
• Candidate is expected to be Board Certified in Forefoot + Rearfoot from an approved qualifying certification board. If a candidate is board qualified, then they are expected to be certified within a defined eligibility period, and it must not expire.
• Preference given to candidates with experience working within a Multi-disciplinary Academic facility and/or a Residency driven program.
• Preference given to candidates with experience in hospital-based patient medical management.
• Candidate must possess the skills to work collaboratively with other hospital service lines, for example, but NOT limited to; Orthopedics, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Vascular and the Emergency Department.

NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration.