Position Specific Duties/Responsibilities Assigned Responsibilities
Full-time position will be divided between two locations: residential treatment center in Dobbs Ferry, NY and outpatient foster care clinic in Bronx or Harlem, NY. Conduct comprehensive, trauma-focused psychiatric assessments of children and adolescents, incorporating developmental, psychosocial, and family system perspectives. Develop clear clinical formulations that integrate trauma history, attachment patterns, environmental stressors, and psychiatric presentation. Create individualized, evidence-based treatment plans that may include psychotherapy recommendations, psychopharmacology, and supportive interventions. Communicate assessment findings and treatment plans effectively to children, caregivers, and the broader clinical team in a developmentally appropriate and accessible manner. Provide ongoing psychiatric care, including medication management when indicated, with follow-up appointments at a minimum of once per month or more frequently based on clinical need. Collaborate with caseworkers, therapists, psychologists, and other agency staff to ensure coordinated, trauma-informed care. Participate in case conferences, team meetings, and treatment planning discussions. Maintain timely, accurate, and compliant clinical documentation in accordance with agency, state, and federal regulations. Support caregivers in understanding diagnoses, treatment approaches, and behavioral strategies. Promote a strengths-based, culturally responsive, and family-centered approach to care. In crisis treatment situations, ascertains whether or not a child needs psychiatric hospitalization or other type of special psychiatric treatment and coordinates such special treatment plan with the community hospital or agency. Provides on-call coverage for after hours via telephone on a rotating schedule with other psychiatry providers in department. Meets with Chief Psychiatrist and/or Medical Director on a regularly scheduled basis for supervision. Meets on a regularly scheduled basis with other Psychiatrists to for case discussions.
Position Qualifications:
Medical licensure in New York State. Psychiatrist: must have completed psychiatry residency and child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship, ABPN board certified or board eligibility in child and adolescent psychiatry. Knowledge in child development, psychiatric assessment and psychopharmacotherapy.
Psychiatrist Board Certified: $258,622
Psychiatrist Not Board Certified: $224,889
The Children’s Village does not discriminate against any employee, prospective employee or contractor because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic predisposition, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction history or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.Skills Required
- Medical licensure in New York State
- Completed psychiatry residency and child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship
- ABPN board certified or board eligible in child and adolescent psychiatry
- Knowledge in child development, psychiatric assessment, and psychopharmacotherapy
What We Do
The Children's Village is a nonprofit charitable organization that specializes in working with at-risk youth in New York. The Children's Village serves children, teens and families through a variety of innovative residential and community-based programs.
