Pediatrician

New York City Children’s Center (NYCCC), an Office of Mental Health (OMH) Joint Commission accredited hospital, is recruiting a licensed and board-certified physician to join their team as a Medical Specialist 2.

Medical Specialists at NYCCC collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care by providing comprehensive and individualized treatment to children and adolescents including:

• Obtaining, reviewing, updating, and documenting information such as medical histories, test results, diagnoses, and treatments
• Conducting physical examinations and treating medical conditions and illnesses
• Ordering, performing, and interpreting diagnostic tests and procedures
• Discussing procedures, test results, and treatments with individuals, families, and/or caregivers
• Consulting with medical specialty providers and referring individuals to specialty providers based on diagnostic and treatment needs
• Participating in discharge planning and assisting with facilitating medical follow up after discharge
• Providing emergency medical care including Basic Life Support (BLS) and Automated External Defibrillation (AED)

About NYCCC

NYCCC is a multi-faceted community-based psychiatric center providing behavioral health services to children and adolescents in the greater New York City area. With campuses in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx; NYCCC provides a variety of inpatient and community services including Day Treatment Programs, Behavioral Health Clinics, Mobile Integration Team (MIT), Community Residences, and Peer Advocacy Services. All programs are fully integrated, which allows NYCCC to provide a full continuum of care to the children and adolescents they serve.

If you would like to join NYCCC and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer the following benefits and opportunities:

• Supplemental income of up to 50% of salary by volunteering to provide evening, night, and weekend coverage
• OMH sponsored Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program
• Professional leave for additional learning activities
• First time Certification and Licensure Exam Fee Reimbursement
• Public Officers Law §17 defense and indemnification protection - broader in scope than typical medical malpractice coverage
• Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance options with competitive employee contribution rates
• Defined-benefit pension and deferred-compensation (457b) retirement plans
• Paid vacations, holidays, personal days and sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care

Minimum Qualifications:

Medical Specialist 2: Possession of a license to practice medicine in New York State and certification by a Member Board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) in your specialty.

Additional Comments:

The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. OMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, OMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring OMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. OMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Office of Employee Relations at or via email at

In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.

If appointed, you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.