The mission of CASES is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community.

• We are committed to helping people—regardless of their past choices, present struggles, or future obstacles—to build the capacity and courage to change their lives.

• We tailor our services to each individual’s unique needs, risks, and strengths and believe the most effective programs are evidence-based, family-focused, and trauma-informed.
• We are committed to engaging the community by leveraging partnerships and resources to maximize our clients’ opportunities for success.

Our team:

We recognize that each CASES staff member is critical. We are a team strengthened by our diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and talents and united by a common purpose.

We are determined to continuously enhance our knowledge and skills, evaluate our results, and learn from our successes and failures.

Our impact on the community:

We believe public safety is best protected through alternatives to incarceration that combine accountability and support with empowerment and opportunity.

We are committed—through continuous innovation and the strategic disruption of ineffective responses to crime, addiction, and mental illness—to creating solutions for some of the city’s most difficult public safety and public health challenges.

Work Location: Nathaniel Clinic (Central Harlem)
Reports to: Director of Practice Operations 
Hours: Part-time or Full-time (clinic is open some evenings and Saturdays)

Overview: CASES is a New York City leader in services for individuals with mental illnesses involved in the criminal justice system. We are focused on providing alternatives to incarceration/detention, reentry, and mental health treatment services that offer individuals with complex criminal justice, behavioral health, and psychosocial needs, recovery and rehabilitation. CASES seeks an experienced psychiatrist who is a mission driven and compassionate clinician who is committed to social justice and evidence-based practices, and the goals of public safety, violence risk management, recovery-oriented, and trauma-informed services for high-need and high-risk youth and adults. 

Responsibilities:

•    Conduct psychiatric assessments, evaluations, and consultations
•    Prescribe, monitor, and administer psychotropic medications
•    Provide Medication-Assisted Treatment for substance use disorders
•    Work with nursing staff to assess, monitor, and educate clients on their physical health status
•    Order and review routine blood work, including toxicology tests
•    Communicate with emergency room/hospital staff to coordinate care and discharge planning
•    Collaborate with primary care providers, including those at the co-located Federally Qualified Health Center (FHQC) run by the Institute of Family Health (IFH)
•    Provide crisis intervention services during regular business hours
•    Provide evidence-based, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and culturally competent services 
•    Provide psychoeducation to clients’ families and other loved ones involved in treatment
•    Complete all clinical documentation within timeframes set forth by regulations and payers
•    Use collaborative documentation methods for paperwork
•    Full use of the electronic health record, including e-prescribing
•    Review and sign treatment plans; provide clinical direction on psychotherapeutic interventions
•    Participate in staff meetings, case conferences, and high-risk rounds
•    Participate in quality improvement initiatives and policy/procedure development
•    Perform other duties required by senior executive staff
 

•    Licensed to practice medicine in New York State 
•    Certified by, or eligible to be certified by, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
•    Completed buprenorphine waiver training
•    Experience working with people with serious mental illness, and co-occurring substance use disorders, primary health care conditions, and criminal justice involvement
•    Bilingual Spanish speaking preferred
•    Applicants excluded on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally Assisted Program) are not eligible for an appointment to CASES. Physicians are required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide a National Provider Identifier (NPI). Ongoing employment may be subject to the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid. 

In one document, attach your cover letter and resume in PDF or Word format. No phone calls please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system.Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.