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Psychiatric Physician Assistant PAGNY, Correctional Health Services
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$143,422.5 - $154,255.5 a year
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- Psychiatric Physician Assistant, Correctional Health Service *Day tour
- Employed by PAGNY for The Division of Correctional Health Services (CHS) of New York City Health + Hospitals (H+H) is responsible for the delivery of medical care, mental health care, and discharge planning in the jail system.
- Approximately 25% of new admissions per year to the NYC jail system will receive care on the mental health service.
- This service strives to provide safe, holistic and evidence-based therapeutic interventions for the diverse range of mental health issues that face the population, from serious mental illness to the natural struggles that accompany incarceration.
- The service provides some of the most comprehensive and unique treatment modalities in the country, including specialty housing units for individuals with serious mental illness, a 24-hour on-call psychiatric service, robust creative arts programming, a strong DBT training program, clinics in each of the facilities, substance use treatment, integrated re- entry services, and relationships with multiple training institutions throughout the city.
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