Careers 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.
MHSC is seeking a Consulting Psychiatrist for Maternal Depression who has experience working with perinatal psychiatry and women’s health issues to help address the gaps in expertise in the public mental health system for serving this population. The consulting psychiatrist will be integral in developing a strategic plan for tackling the maternal depression burden in NYC and to participate in current initiatives and networks through the DOHMH and other stakeholders.
The psychiatrist will consult, guide, advise, train, build capabilities and inform the practice of clinicians in the MHSC in addition to working strategically to enhance systems of care in NYC using his/her clinical expertise and knowledge of the literature and current clinical standard of care in women’s mental health.
Other Duties
- Address public health impact of maternal depression, women’s mental and behavioral health conditions, and preventive factors
- Provide collaborative and integrated care models for maternal depression assessment and treatment in general health care, pediatric, and OB-GYN practices.
- Develop strategic plans for training and consultation with goal of spreading best practices in assessment, treatment planning, and treatment delivery in women’s mental health within the MHSC as well as to a broader clinical audience in NYC. This would also include dissemination of information about pharmacologic best practices in the perinatal timeframe.
- Provide clinical consultation - This might include some direct consultation but also would involve strategic planning for a phone consultation model in NYC similar to the MC-CAP for Moms program in Massachusetts.
Qualifications
- Completion of a Reproductive Psychiatry Fellowship or at least 5 years of clinical work with a focus in Women’s Mental Health/Maternal Depression.
- Training or work experience includes a public health focus or orientation. Strong organizational skills are a must and experience working in administrative level positions strongly recommended.
- History of effective clinical practice serving diverse populations.
- Strong commitment to work in a high-risk, underserved need community with limited access to care
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.
- Experience consulting to or training clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Experience critically reviewing and summarizing research literature and clinical guidelines for the purposes of dissemination to varied audiences.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation) and demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting
- Positive, flexible, and solution-focused attitude.
- Commitment to at least 3 years of work with program.
- Licensed to practice in New York State.
- ABPN board certified or board eligible in Adult Psychiatry by start date.
PREFERENCES:
- Knowledge of New York City community resources and mental health systems
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Mental Health Service Corps
Full Time
Depends on Qualifications
Feb 28, 2018 (Or Until Filled)