Northwell Health’s Department of Behavioral Health is seeking an experienced Board-Certified / Board Eligible Inpatient Psychiatrist to join our dynamic Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at Zucker Hillside Hospital.

In this impactful role, you will be a vital member of a 3-physician-run Adult Psychiatry Unit, leading a dedicated sub-team that includes social workers, rehabilitation therapists, and nursing staff. This position offers significant opportunities for academic engagement, allowing you to supervise and teach diverse behavioral health trainees, such as medical students, residents, and psychiatry track nurse practitioner students. Furthermore, you will have the chance to collaborate with our nationally recognized Psychiatry Research program, contributing to advancements in the field.

Zucker Hillside Hospital

Zucker Hillside Hospital is Northwell’s renowned 236-bed behavioral health facility, known for its pioneering clinical, teaching and research programs. Over the past 30 years, it has been the site of multiple National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research centers focused on the treatment of schizophrenia, including a Clinical Research Center, Intervention Research Center and a Center for Intervention Development and Applied Research. These federally supported centers have provided Zucker Hillside with national and international recognition for its groundbreaking work in the diagnosis and treatment of serious mental illness. In addition, ZHH has outstanding health professions training programs with a large residency in general adult psychiatry; fellowships in child and adolescent, consultation-liaison (CL), geriatric, and addiction psychiatry; externship, internship and post-doctoral fellowships in psychology; and social work, and nursing and nurse practitioner programs.   In 2024, Zucker Hillside Hospital was recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center with a Magnet Recognition Program designation for its excellence in nursing services.  Zucker Hillside joins the 10 other hospitals within the Northwell system to also receive Magnet recognition as proof of its hard-earned commitment to excellence in health care. Zucker Hillside received 10 exemplars demonstrating the reasons for Magnet designation.

Inpatient services include units dedicated to specific populations, including adolescent, college-aged, adult, geriatric, and women’s (perinatal psychiatry) units. Treatment specialties include early phase treatment, depression, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, peripartum mood and anxiety disorders, bipolar, personality disorders, medical/neurological illnesses with psychiatric symptoms, adolescent, and geriatric psychiatry including Alzheimer's disease and related conditions. Zucker Hillside’s beautiful 22-bed inpatient women’s unit is the first in New York state and one of only a few in the U.S. to specialize in treating women with perinatal psychiatric illness.

Outpatient programs serve all ages and encompass the full continuum of care. These services include general adult outpatient clinics and specialized centers for bipolar, peripartum depression, OCD, early onset psychosis, college-aged patients, clozapine, long-acting injectables, children and adolescents, adolescent eating disorders, and geriatric patients. In addition, ZHH offers partial hospital treatment programs, and a full range of psychiatric rehabilitation services. Programs for alcohol and chemical dependency are available both on our main campus and in numerous community-based sites. ZHH has recently established a Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) and an Interventional Psychiatry center offering ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and operates the second largest ECT program in the US. The goal at Zucker Hillside is to promote wellness, prevention, and recovery, including reintegration of patients back into the community to work, attend school, socialize and live independently.

Benefits at Northwell Health include: 

• Nationally competitive salaries
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Four weeks’ vacation plus paid conference/CME time
• Academic appointment in Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
• Advanced education opportunities
• College Tuition reimbursement for dependent children

Northwell Health

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 28 hospitals and 1,050 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 103,500 employees – 19,000+ nurses and 12,000+ credentialed physicians, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Northwell has been named as a Best Workplaces in Healthcare (Fortune, Modern Healthcare, Glassdoor), America’s Most Innovative Companies (Fortune), and the no. 1 health system nationally for advancing diversity and inclusion (DiversityInc).

To receive full consideration, interested individuals should electronically submit a Curriculum Vitae and a Letter of Interest to Dr. Blaine Greenwald, Vice Chairman, Combined Department of Psychiatry for Long Island Jewish Medical Center/North Shore University Hospital at bgreenwa@northwell.edu