Psychiatrist - Clinical Lead - Inpatient Child & Adolescent - Hartford, CT - Hartford Healthcare (HHC)

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CLINICAL LEAD – CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST

JOIN HARTFORD HEALTHCARE'S RENOWNED INSTITUTE OF LIVING

Job Description

The Department of Psychiatry at the Institute of Living (IOL) at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT, is recruiting a senior clinical leader for Child and Adolescent Inpatient Services.  The IOL has a 16-bed child unit and a 16 bed adolescent unit, for a total of 32 acute care beds for individuals under the age of 18 years.  Duties will include leadership and supervision of inpatient staff psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, social workers, resource coordinators, and others who work directly with hospitalized youth. Expertise in assessment and diagnosis, psychopharmacology, psychotherapies employed in acute care settings, treatment planning, multidisciplinary treatment team leadership, family systems, and psychoeducation is essential. The Inpatient Clinical Lead will work collaboratively with other multidisciplinary leaders and supervisors of the treatment teams. 

The Clinical Lead of Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry should have broad administrative experience regarding day-to-day operations of a large inpatient service. The successful candidate should be comfortable working with pediatricians, community mental health providers, other facilities and systems of care, third party payers, government and child advocacy agencies

The ideal candidate should be a seasoned clinician educator. Education and training of all mental health disciplines are integral to the IOL mission. The IOL has a child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship, a general psychiatry residency program, and is a primary training site for medical students, general psychiatry residents, and other learners from the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University. The role will also work with students and trainees in IOL’s many psychology, nursing, social work, and family therapy training programs. Scholarly and research experience and interests are highly desired and will be encouraged.  Additional career development and mentoring are encouraged. An academic appointment will be available through the University of Connecticut.

Attending call responsibilities are shared with a large team of other child and adolescent psychiatrists.

About the IOL:

Becoming a Division of Hartford Hospital in 1994, it remains one of America's leading not-for-profit centers for comprehensive patient care, research and education in the fields of behavioral, psychiatric, and addiction disorders.

Our facility has a longstanding humanistic tradition and was founded on the principles of moral treatment for those we serve. We are part of Hartford Healthcare’s Behavioral Health Network, which is one of the largest and most comprehensive networks in the United States.

During 2022 and 2023 we will be celebrating our 200th anniversary. This moment in history provides us with an opportunity to honor our tradition, celebrate our present, and a look forward to our future as we re-imagine how to deliver on the promise of moral treatment into the 21st century and beyond. The Institute was founded in 1822 and incorporated in 1823, so the celebration will occur over a two-year period.

About Hartford HealthCare’s Behavioral Health Network (BHN)

There are no limits to what you can achieve when you join the Behavioral Health Network at Hartford HealthCare.  The extensive capabilities of the most integrated healthcare system in CT offers Physicians MORE OPPORTUNITY as you practice with nationally respected colleagues in a progressive, physician-led environment. Our broad network includes seven acute care hospitals including one of the largest academic and surgical hospitals in the northeast, thriving community teaching hospitals, and one of the largest multi-specialty medical groups in New England with more than 1,000 providers.

For additional information:

Please contact Samuel McNeil, Physician Recruiter, Samuel.Mcneil@hhchealth.org or call/text 860-637-5571.

Qualifications

• Position Qualifications:

  ·         MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school

  ·         Eligible for medical licensure in Connecticut

  ·         Completion of accredited general psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship programs

  ·         ABPN Certifications in general and child and adolescent psychiatry

  ·         Preferred 10-15 years’ experience post fellowship