Inpatient and Outpatient Psychiatrist

Rockland Psychiatric Center (RPC) and Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center (RCPC), an Office of Mental Health (OMH) Joint Commission accredited facility, is recruiting Board Certified or Board Eligible Psychiatrists for inpatient and outpatient positions. The inpatient hospital is located in Orangeburg, New York. Outpatient clinics are located in Mount Vernon, White Plains, Peekskill, Putnam, Dutchess, Newburgh, and Middletown; ACT Teams are located in Orange and Dutchess Counties.

Psychiatrists at RPC and RCPC are part of a multi-disciplinary team that provides comprehensive, patient-centered, and holistic team-based care to individuals with mental illness including:

· Conducting comprehensive psychiatric assessments and patient admissions

· Creating treatment plans including medication management

· Obtaining and reviewing appropriate laboratory tests and consulting with members of treatment team as needed

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Additional Comments:

The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. OMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, OMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring OMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. OMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@oer.ny.gov.

In order to be hired and to maintain your employment, candidate’s cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists. If appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists, you may be terminated from your employment.

If appointed, you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.

About New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)

OMH operates the largest state mental health system in the country with 23 hospitals, 90 clinics, two world class research institutes, a secure residential center, and a network of community services. OMH hospitals are all Joint Commission accredited and recognized as among the best mental health hospital systems in the United States.

OMH provides comprehensive and recovery-oriented mental health treatment to individuals with serious mental illness across New York State through inpatient, residential, and a wide variety of outpatient and community services.

OMH provides State-operated services to civil and forensic populations through two divisions: the Division of State-Operated Services and the Division of Forensic Services.

OMH’s Division of State-Operated Services is responsible for operation of 19 civil state psychiatric centers that provide mental health treatment to adults and children and adolescents which includes:

• Inpatient Services
• Outpatient Clinics
⚬ Residential Services
⚬ State-Operated Community Residences (SOCR)
⚬ Transitional Living Residences (TLR)
⚬ Crisis Respite Residences
⚬ Family Care
• Community Services
⚬ Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams
⚬ Mobile Integration Teams (MIT)
⚬ Day Treatment
⚬ Health Home Care Management

OMH’s Division of Forensic Services provides mental health services for justice-involved individuals which includes:

• Three accredited secure forensic psychiatric centers and one regional forensic unit
• Prison-based mental health satellite units
• Residential programs located within prison facilities
• Secure treatment and rehabilitation facilities for the care and treatment of individuals confined under the sex
offender civil management initiative
• Community-based training and technical assistance services for local governmental units, including Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training and diversion services