Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Opportunities

Hackensack Meridian Health is seeking multiple BC/BE Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists to join our growing team at Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) in Hackensack, NJ. The growing Child and Adolescent Psychiatry program compliments an already established academic medical center. Join a collaborative team of physicians, psychologists, social workers, and pediatricians at HUMC and Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital, New Jersey’s #1 rated hospital and children’s hospital in 2022 by US News & World Report. 

HUMC offers academic teaching opportunities with general psychiatry residents and medical students from the Hackensack Meridian Health School of Medicine. Live in desirable Bergen County, NJ or the surrounding area, just 10 miles from Manhattan, with access to highly rated public schools, private schools, and universities nearby. 

This opportunity is a hybrid outpatient/consultation position working with the Pediatric Psychiatry Collaborative Hub Teams (social worker, case manager, data analyst), to provide consultation to pediatricians and directly to families and children. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with pediatricians in our statewide collaborative hubs to provide comprehensive patient care.

Highlights:

• Academic appointment with the new Hackensack Meridian Health School of Medicine 
• Collaboration among multiple sites (statewide). 
• On-call responsibilities required. 
• Outpatient/Consultative setting.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide consultation support to Primary Care Pediatricians (PCPs) via telephone.
• Document consultations according to program guidelines. 
• Provide screening and treatment services to patients referred by the PCPs according to program guidelines. 
• Document treatment and screening services provided.
• Participate as required and as available in weekly Service Hub conference calls. 
• Participate in education of Pediatricians as determined in conjunction with the Program Co-Principal Investigators. 

Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care network in New Jersey offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research, and life­ enhancing care aiming to serve as a national model for changing and simplifying health care delivery through partnerships with innovative companies and focusing on quality and safety.

Requirements Include:

• Current New Jersey Medical License
• Board Certified/Board Eligible in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Medical degree from a recognized medical school
• Ability to interface effectively with professional personnel

We offer competitive compensation, relocation assistance for eligible candidates, a robust healthcare benefits package, 401K savings plan, and medical malpractice insurance.

Founded in 1888 with just 12 beds, Hackensack University Medical Center was Bergen County's first hospital. As we continue to grow and flourish, this nonprofit, teaching and research hospital has grown to become the largest provider of inpatient and outpatient services in New Jersey. Not only have we added 763 more beds to our facilities, we’re now Bergen County’s hub of healthcare for the Northern New Jersey and New York metropolitan areas.

HackensackUMC enjoys numerous clinical, research and academic affiliations with world-renowned partners. HackensackUMC is one of Bergen County’s largest employers with a work force of over 7,600 employees. The more than 1,600 physicians and dentists on the medical and dental staff represent the full spectrum of specialties and subspecialties and are international leaders in healthcare.

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Our collaborative team of physicians and advanced practice professionals help make us a distinguished leader, committed to the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

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Hackensack Meridian Health is the leading not-for-profit health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care. We aim to serve as a national model for changing and simplifying health care delivery through partnerships with innovative companies and focusing on quality and safety.

OUR MISSION: 

We will transform health care and be recognized as the leader of positive change.

OUR VISION: 

Because innovation is in our DNA, compelling us to create a world where the highest quality care is human-centered, accessible and affordable; we’re always ready to deliver the outcomes that matter most, and excellence is the standard.

OUR NETWORK: 

Hackensack Meridian Health was created in 2016 as a merger of Hackensack University Medical Center and its affiliated hospitals, with Meridian Health System, and is now a large integrated not-for-profit health care organization spanning the eastern shore of New Jersey. HMH comprises 18 hospitals, including two academic medical centers, two children’s hospitals and ten community hospitals, physician practices, more than 120 ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and assisted living communities, hospice services, ambulance services, lifesaving air medical transportation, fitness and wellness centers, rehabilitation centers, and urgent care and after-hours centers.

DEFINING ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE:

At the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, our mission is to develop our students, residents, fellows, faculty, and health care environment to deliver the highest quality care for all. Our approach is unique as we utilize the best components of different evidence-based teaching methods, and structure our foundational curriculum explicitly to give students what they need to thrive in the modern, technically demanding, clinical setting.

RANKED #1 IN NEW JERSEY:

Hackensack Meridian Health has two hospitals ranked on New Jersey’s Top 10 Best Hospitals list according to U.S. News & World Report. Hackensack University Medical Center is the #1 adult and children’s hospitals in New Jersey, with premier cancer care at John Theurer Cancer Center, a nationally ranked Orthopedics program, the state’s best programs in Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery, Geriatrics, Pulmonology and Lung Surgery, and the only nationally ranked programs in the state for Neurology & Neurosurgery, and Urology. Jersey Shore University Medical Center is ranked #6 and has received national recognition for its Orthopedics, and Pulmonary & Lung Surgery programs. And JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute has once again been ranked among the nation’s best rehabilitation hospitals.

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