Staff Psychologist

About Us

We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community‑based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient‑centered care.

The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties;
Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130‑bed adult medical‑surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Maimonides Medical Center Department of Psychiatry is currently seeking a Staff Psychologist for our Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry service. You will join a team of dedicated professionals partnering with a diverse population of patients to improve mental health and well‑being. In addition to clinical care, Maimonides has a supportive academic culture in which our psychologists take pride in teaching and supervising psychiatry residents, psychology interns, and psychology externs.

Our well‑established, APA‑accredited psychology internship program recruits six interns yearly. Additionally, our child and adolescent psychology externship program recruits four externs each year. Staff psychologists are also encouraged to participate in didactics training and research in their areas of expertise and interest.

The department of psychiatry also houses specialty clinics in perinatal and LGBTQ+ mental health care.

Our ideal candidate values working collaboratively with a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers and is dedicated to training the next generation of psychology professionals. The Staff Psychologist duties include individual supervision of therapy cases for psychiatry residents, psychology interns, and psychology externs. Additionally, the Staff Psychologist will participate in group supervision of psychology interns’ and externs’ psychological/neuro cases in collaboration with other staff psychologists.

Other opportunities include providing clinical didactics to psychiatry residents and psychology interns and externs and providing testing didactics to psychology interns and externs.

Monday–Friday

Times Rotate

2 days a week: 11:00 AM–7:00 PM

2 days a week: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM

Friday: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM

35 hours per week

• PhD or PsyD in Clinical, combined Clinical‑School, or Counseling Psychology.
• Current NYS licensure or license‑eligibility as a Psychologist.
• Extensive psychological/neuropsychological assessment experience.
• Individual, group, and family therapy experience.
• Intake interviewing skills.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills in English.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other team members.
• Experience and/or interest in directing psychology externship practicum.

Fluency in second language is a plus (Spanish, Russian, Chinese, etc.).

USD $60.63 – USD $78.95 /hr.

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.