Vice Chair of Psychological Services

Vice Chair of Psychological Services Position Announcement

Dr. John Q. Young, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Zucker Hillside Hospital (ZHH) and SVP for Behavioral Health at Northwell, and Dr. Manish Sapra, Executive Director for the Behavioral Health Service Line, with the support of Northwell Executive Leadership, invites applications and nominations for the newly established position of Vice Chair of Psychological Services.

This inaugural leadership role reflects Northwell Health’s bold commitment to elevating psychotherapy as a cornerstone of mental health treatment. It comes at a moment of both challenge and opportunity for the field, as the need for timely, meaningful, and evidence-based psychotherapy grows more urgent. Northwell aims to create a system-wide model that is innovative, accessible, effective, equitable, sustainable, and growable.

The incoming Vice Chair will shape and operationalize this vision, advancing high‑quality psychological care grounded in the science of therapeutic common factors and the depth of specialized, empirically supported treatments.

The Vice Chair of Psychological Services will serve as the clinical and strategic leader for psychotherapy and psychological services at the combined Department of Psychiatry (Zucker Hillside Hospital, LIJMC, CCMC, and NSUH) with system‑wide responsibility for strategy, oversight, mentorship, faculty development, and scholarship. Reporting to the System Chair of Psychiatry, this role will also influence the system‑wide strategy for the design, clinical integrity, quality, sustainability, growth and evaluation of psychological care ally, the position will also lead the workforce pipeline strategy to increase accessibility to high quality psychotherapy for the communities Northwell serves.

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 28 hospitals and 1,050 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 103,500 employees – 19,000+ nurses and 12,000+ credentialed physicians, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better.

We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @Northwell Health on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linked In.

Northwell has been named as a Best Workplaces in Healthcare (Fortune, Modern Healthcare, Glassdoor), America’s Most Innovative Companies (Fortune), and the no. 1 health system nationally for advancing diversity and inclusion (Diversity Inc).

Northwell’s mission is to improve the mental health of the patients and communities Northwell serves through a full continuum of high-quality, comprehensive clinical services in all of Northwell’s hospitals, outpatient programs and practices. Hospital services include over 624 inpatient beds (74 SUD beds) across 7 hospitals, consult services in each of the 23 hospitals and emergency departments, a robust telepsychiatry program, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, and a full range of outpatient services (>600K visits per year and growing) for all ages and disorders.

Northwell Health has two hospitals that specialize in behavioral health:
Zucker Hillside Hospital, a 236-bed facility in Glen Oaks, NY and South Oaks Hospital, a 202-bed facility in Amityville, NY.

To improve access and facilitate earlier diagnosis and treatment, the Department prioritizes integrating behavioral health into settings where people routinely engage such as primary care (adult, pediatric and OB‑GYN) and schools. BH has embedded collaborative care…