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General Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive psychiatric emergency evaluations for patients presenting with acute psychiatric, behavioral, and substance use emergencies.
• Assess suicide risk, violence risk, capacity, and determine the need for involuntary evaluation, observation, or hospitalization in accordance with New York State Mental Hygiene Law.
• Develop differential diagnoses and formulate evidence-based treatment and disposition plans.
• Initiate and manage psychopharmacologic treatment, including medication reconciliation and bridge prescribing when appropriate.
• Provide crisis intervention, stabilization, brief psychotherapy, and behavioral management.
• Collaborate closely with Emergency Department physicians, nursing staff, social workers, psychiatric nurse practitioners, security personnel, and consulting medical and surgical services.
• Coordinate safe patient dispositions, including inpatient psychiatric admission, extended observation, outpatient referral, substance use treatment, ACT teams, mobile crisis services, and other community-based behavioral health programs.
• Communicate effectively with patients, families, outpatient providers etc. to facilitate continuity of care.
• Supervise and teach psychiatry residents, fellows, medical students, nurse practitioners, and other learners as assigned.
• Participate in departmental quality improvement, patient safety, and educational initiatives.

Specific Responsibilities

• Evaluate voluntary and involuntary psychiatric patients presenting to the CPEP.
• Psychiatric evaluations for patients presenting to the CPEP or for Emergency Department patients requiring psychiatric evaluation.
• Manage psychiatric emergencies, including agitation, psychosis, mania, severe depression, suicidality, intoxication, withdrawal, and behavioral disturbances using evidence-based de-escalation techniques and pharmacologic interventions.
• Determine the appropriate level of psychiatric care, including discharge with outpatient follow-up, extended observation, inpatient psychiatric admission, medical admission with psychiatric consultation, or transfer to another psychiatric facility when appropriate.
• Complete all required legal documentation, including emergency admission certificates, involuntary retention paperwork, assisted outpatient treatment documentation when applicable, and other documentation required under New York State Mental Hygiene Law.

Documentation

• Complete timely, accurate, and comprehensive documentation in the electronic medical record.
• Ensure documentation complies with NYU Langone policies, CMS and Joint Commission standards, New York State Office of Mental Health regulations, and New York State Mental Hygiene Law.
• Complete all required legal and regulatory documentation accurately and promptly.

Compliance

• Maintain familiarity with departmental policies, CPEP protocols, NYU Langone Health policies, and New York State Office of Mental Health regulations.

Maintain all required credentialing, mandatory education, annual compliance training, influenza vaccination, fit testing, and institutional requirements.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) from an accredited medical school.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited Psychiatry residency.
• Demonstrated clinical competence in psychiatric emergency evaluation, crisis intervention, psychopharmacology, and multidisciplinary team-based care.
• Excellent clinical judgment, communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills.

License & Credentials

• Current unrestricted New York State medical license.
• DEA registration.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working in a Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP), Psychiatric Emergency Service (PES), emergency psychiatry, emergency department psychiatric consultation service, or other high-acuity psychiatric setting is strongly preferred.
• Experience evaluating patients under New York State Mental Hygiene Law, including involuntary psychiatric admissions and emergency psychiatric evaluations.
• Experience supervising psychiatry residents, fellows, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or medical students.
• Familiarity with New York State Office of Mental Health regulations, psychiatric emergency risk assessment, crisis intervention, and community behavioral health systems.

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.