Psychiatrist Per Diem

Position Summary

Location: Nyack, New York. Work Shift: Day. Work Days: MON-FRI, alternating weekends and holidays. Scheduled Hours: day, evenings, nights – hours vary.

Hourly Rate/Range: $104.17 (may vary based on shift differential, experience, education, or other relevant factors).

Job Summary

Provides direct care to patients and serves as a consistent care coordinator through the continuum of care. Assesses the physical, psychological, spiritual, and social needs of the patient, directs patients to the next appropriate service, and tracks their progress. In collaboration with the Medical Director, ensures that all hospital behavioral health patients receive appropriate evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, medical screening, and medical/psychiatric evaluation when indicated, with proper documentation in the medical record.

Essential Functions

1. Maintain current working knowledge of all local, federal, state, and other regulatory agency laws, rules, regulations, policies and procedures applicable to assigned programs. This includes cultural and linguistic healthcare and outreach services, quality management, and quality improvement standards to insure compliance.
2. As needed, assist with policy changes as necessary.
3. Maintain compliance with Hospital Policies and Medical Staff By Laws, Rules and Regulations and all requirements for medical staff privileges.
4. Assist the Medical Director with development of Department of Behavioral Health Service standards and oversight of compliance to establish and maintain the scope of services required.
5. Assist with development of clinically relevant, evidence-based best practices for behavioral health care.
6. Provide direct psychiatric services as needed.
7. As needed, provide supervision of clinical staff including medical staff and residents as appropriate.
8. Participate in the liaison relationship with private and public payers, in particular with Medical Directors or equivalent clinical leadership in payer organizations.
9. Actively participate in the system’s ongoing quality assurance and audit processes.
10. Participate in the development of a clinically relevant outcome evaluation process as needed.
11. Collaborate with community physicians, hospital staff and other professional agencies regarding psychiatric services, and assist in assessment of community needs to determine program and service priorities.
12. Timely and quality completion of all required documentation necessary for regulatory and financial purposes.
13. Assure coverage in your absence via working with the Medical Director to appoint another MD.

Qualifications

• MD required; 1-3 years of work experience seeing psychiatric patients in a hospital setting or outpatient clinic.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proficiency in documenting in the EMR system; EPIC (medium proficiency).
• Physician – New York State Board of Medicine required.

Benefits

• Competitive pay ($104.17 hourly rate, adjustable for shift differential and experience).
• Medical benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Flexible opportunities for per diem, part‑time and full‑time employment.

Montefiore Nyack Hospital is an equal employment opportunity employer. It will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.