Job Title: MHSC Medical Director
PVN ID: HC-1704-001772
Category: Managerial and Professional
Location: HUNTER COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

The New York City Mental Health Service Corps (MHSC) is a key initiative of Thrive NYC: A Mental Health Roadmap for All– a comprehensive public health approach to mental health designed to promote and protect the wellbeing of all New Yorkers. The MHSC fills the too long neglected gaps in mental health and substance use services throughout NYC by creating a corps of approximately 400 mental health clinicians placed in high-need communities. Through best practices and a better design of care, the initiative will increase the diversity of behavioral health clinicians in the workforce and strengthen care where it is needed the most.

MHSC focuses on the recruitment, training, and support of early career social workers and licensed mental health counselors to become fully licensed behavioral health clinicians with a specific focus on incorporating evidence-based practices in primary care and behavioral health settings throughout New York City. Through a structured supervision system and task-shifting model, clinicians are able to obtain advanced licensure through the MHSC and strengthen their own capacity to be able to provide sound behavioral health services in marginalized communities and populations. MHSC is a city-funded program housed under Hunter College, CUNY and the Research Foundation of CUNY.  All MHSC staff are employees of the Research Foundation of CUNY.

 

Key Responsibilities of the Medical Director:

  • Serve as one of the primary public faces of the Mental Health Service Corps in presentations to recruit clinicians, in placement settings, as well as to build public awareness of the Corps.
  • Oversees daily operations of the Clinical Programs at MHSC
  • Provides supervision and leadership and manages productivity of the MHSC Psychiatrists/Physician lines, with a specific focus on primary care
  • Provides support and supervision to the Senior Clinical Manager and relevant discipline-specific supervisors
  • Provide clinical guidance and oversight of the evidence-based practices, integration of behavioral health and primary care using the collaborative care/IMPACT model, and addition of mental health clinicians in various settings.
  • Provide oversight of the quality of clinical services provided by Corps members.
  • Collaborates with the training manager and DOHMH to ensure a high quality curriculum and oversees the dissemination of clinical resources
  • Work collaboratively with the Project Director and Senior Leadership team in successful implementation and maintenance of the Mental Health Service Corps.
  • Contribute to all aspects of the program implementation and maintenance, including outcomes evaluation.
  • In conjunction with the Director and DOHMH, identify and realize clinical service and workforce development objectives, and related supervision and training content.

 

Other Duties

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

  • Individual must have a valid license to practice medicine in the State of New York.
  • Completion of an approved residency program in an accredited hospital, including three years of experience in general psychiatry.
  • Valid board certification or board eligibility issued by the appropriate American Specialty Board in General Psychiatry
  • 4+ years experience as Medical Director or Supervising Psychiatrist of a program.

Preferred Skills

  • Knowledge of and experience in integrating behavioral health and primary care, and mental health and substance use services
  • Experience with collaborative care models preferred
  • Excellent communication skills, written and oral, and the ability to convey complex information to a broad range of audiences
  • Broad understanding and experience in implementing basic population and public health principles.

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).

RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
MHSC
Status
Full Time
Salary
Depends on Qualifications
Closing Date
Aug 28, 2017 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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