Essen Health Care
Associate Medical Director, Behavioral Health Department (Hybrid)
This role involves building and scaling a comprehensive behavioral health program serving homebound patients, assisted living residents, and patients with dementia, cognitive impairment, and complex psychiatric and medical comorbidities. Responsibilities include clinical leadership, supervision and mentorship of behavioral health providers, program development, direct psychiatric evaluation and treatment, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. The physician maintains meaningful clinical engagement while improving systems of care.
Key Responsibilities
- • Work closely with primary care providers, care management teams, and executive leadership to build and scale a comprehensive behavioral health program serving homebound patients, assisted living residents, patients with dementia and cognitive impairment, and patients with complex psychiatric and medical comorbidities
- • Provide clinical leadership for behavioral health services across Intention Healthcare’s home-based and facility-based programs
- • Develop and implement evidence-based behavioral health care models integrated with primary care and long-term care
- • Establish clinical protocols and treatment pathways for psychiatric and behavioral conditions common in medically complex populations
- • Collaborate with medical leadership and facility partners to improve behavioral health outcomes
- • Ensure quality, safety, and regulatory compliance across behavioral health services
- • Provide clinical supervision and mentorship for Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioners and other behavioral health providers
- • Review complex cases and support treatment planning
- • Lead regular case review meetings and interdisciplinary discussions
- • Ensure providers are practicing according to evidence-based behavioral health standards
- • Design and scale a comprehensive behavioral health program supporting both home-based and facility-based patients
- • Develop care models addressing depression and anxiety, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and caregiver stress and behavioral health needs
- • Support implementation of programs such as Collaborative Care Model (CoCM), behavioral health integration, and tele-behavioral health services
- • Work with operations and technology teams to develop scalable workflows and documentation processes
- • Provide psychiatric evaluation and treatment for patients through telehealth, in-home visits, and facility-based care
- • Manage complex psychiatric cases in collaboration with primary care providers and facility staff
- • Prescribe and manage psychiatric medications as appropriate
- • Work closely with primary care providers, behavioral health clinicians, care management teams, social workers, and family caregivers
- • Provide education and guidance to interdisciplinary teams on behavioral health topics
Required
- • MD or DO with Board Certification in Psychiatry
- • Active medical license (or ability to obtain licensure in relevant states)
- • Experience treating adults with complex psychiatric and medical conditions
- • Experience supervising behavioral health clinicians (e.g., NPs, PAs, etc.)
- • Familiarity with documentation and billing requirements for behavioral health services, including psychiatric evaluation and management services, psychotherapy codes, and behavioral health integration models
- • Understanding of regulatory and compliance considerations for behavioral health services in outpatient, home-based, and long-term care settings
- • Strong interest in integrated care models that combine behavioral health with primary care
Preferred
- • Experience in geriatric psychiatry or long-term care psychiatry
- • Experience with Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) or Behavioral Health Integration
- • Experience with home-based care or telehealth
- • Leadership or program development experience
- • Familiarity with value-based care models
Benefits & Perks
- • Salary may reflect bonuses and incentives
Essen Health Care is the largest privately held, multispecialty medical group in New York, providing high-quality, compassionate care to some of the state’s most vulnerable and underserved residents.
Founded in 1999, we’ve grown from a single primary care office into a network of 50+ locations offering urgent care, primary care and specialty services, from women’s health to endocrinology and psychiatry. We also provide nursing home support, care management, and in-home care through our Essen House Calls program. Guided by a Population Health model, our team of 500+ providers deliver care in-person, at home, or via telehealth, ensuring patients get the support they need when and where they need it.
We’re looking for talented, motivated individuals to join our growing team. Whether you’re a medical provider, administrator, or operations professional, there’s a career here for you. Join us in making a real difference in the health of our community.
The Associate Medical Director will work closely with primary care providers, care management teams, and executive leadership to build and scale a comprehensive behavioral health program serving
Clinical Leadership
Design and scale a comprehensive behavioral health program supporting both home-based and facility-based patients
Develop care models addressing
Depression and anxiety
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
Serious mental illness
Substance use disorders
Caregiver stress and behavioral health needs
Support implementation of programs such as
Collaborative Care Model (CoCM)
Behavioral health integration
Tele-behavioral health services
Work with operations and technology teams to develop scalable workflows and documentation processes
Direct Patient Care
Work closely with
Primary care providers
Behavioral health clinicians
Care management teams
Social workers
Family caregivers
Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.
Founded in 1999, we’ve grown from a single primary care office into a network of 50+ locations offering urgent care, primary care and specialty services, from women’s health to endocrinology and psychiatry. We also provide nursing home support, care management, and in-home care through our Essen House Calls program. Guided by a Population Health model, our team of 500+ providers deliver care in-person, at home, or via telehealth, ensuring patients get the support they need when and where they need it.
We’re looking for talented, motivated individuals to join our growing team. Whether you’re a medical provider, administrator, or operations professional, there’s a career here for you. Join us in making a real difference in the health of our community.
The Associate Medical Director will work closely with primary care providers, care management teams, and executive leadership to build and scale a comprehensive behavioral health program serving
- Homebound patients
- Assisted living residents
- Patients with dementia and cognitive impairment
- Patients with complex psychiatric and medical comorbidities
Clinical Leadership
- Provide clinical leadership for behavioral health services across Intention Healthcare’s home-based and facility-based programs
- Develop and implement evidence-based behavioral health care models integrated with primary care and long-term care
- Establish clinical protocols and treatment pathways for psychiatric and behavioral conditions common in medically complex populations
- Collaborate with medical leadership and facility partners to improve behavioral health outcomes
- Ensure quality, safety, and regulatory compliance across behavioral health services
- Provide clinical supervision and mentorship for Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioners and other behavioral health providers
- Review complex cases and support treatment planning
- Lead regular case review meetings and interdisciplinary discussions
- Ensure providers are practicing according to evidence-based behavioral health standards
Design and scale a comprehensive behavioral health program supporting both home-based and facility-based patients
Develop care models addressing
Depression and anxiety
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
Serious mental illness
Substance use disorders
Caregiver stress and behavioral health needs
Support implementation of programs such as
Collaborative Care Model (CoCM)
Behavioral health integration
Tele-behavioral health services
Work with operations and technology teams to develop scalable workflows and documentation processes
Direct Patient Care
- Provide psychiatric evaluation and treatment for patients through telehealth, in-home visits, and facility-based care
- Manage complex psychiatric cases in collaboration with primary care providers and facility staff
- Prescribe and manage psychiatric medications as appropriate
Work closely with
Primary care providers
Behavioral health clinicians
Care management teams
Social workers
Family caregivers
- Provide education and guidance to interdisciplinary teams on behavioral health topics
- MD or DO with Board Certification in Psychiatry
- Active medical license (or ability to obtain licensure in relevant states)
- Experience treating adults with complex psychiatric and medical conditions
- Experience supervising behavioral health clinicians (e.g., NPs, PAs, etc.)
- Familiarity with documentation and billing requirements for behavioral health services, including psychiatric evaluation and management services, psychotherapy codes, and behavioral health integration models
- Understanding of regulatory and compliance considerations for behavioral health services in outpatient, home-based, and long-term care settings
- Strong interest in integrated care models that combine behavioral health with primary care
- Experience in geriatric psychiatry or long-term care psychiatry
- Experience with Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) or Behavioral Health Integration
- Experience with home-based care or telehealth
- Leadership or program development experience
- Familiarity with value-based care models
Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.
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