Clinical Psychiatrist - Juvenile Justice (Per Diem)
New York, NYPer Diem$225/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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NYU Langone Medical Center is seeking Child Psychiatrists to provide weekend moonlighting coverage at juvenile detention sites in Brooklyn and the Bronx. The role includes diagnostic assessments, follow-up psychiatric services, medication management, crisis consultation, and check-ins with high-risk youth, with phone supervision. Scheduling is flexible, with opportunities to work Saturdays and/or Sundays at either location.
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Job ID: 180123
Facility: NYU Langone Medical Center
Our team at the Bellevue Juvenile Justice Mental Health Services (BJJMHS) is looking to bring on Child Psychiatrists to moonlight with us, for weekend coverage at both our Brooklyn (Crossroads) and Bronx (Horizon) Detention sites. Board certified CAP psychiatrists and Fellows who have passed the adult psychiatry boards are eligible.
Scheduling is flexible with opportunity to work Saturdays and/or Sundays at either location. The primary responsibility for weekend moonlighters is focused on comprehensive diagnostic assessments, including evaluation of the resident, collateral from caregivers, recommendations and prescribing psychotropic medications – all with phone supervision! Moonlighters also see youth for follow-up psychiatric services focused on medication management, crisis management (as a consultant to the building staff), and check-ins with high-risk youth. Moonlighters work with social workers who are members of the BJJMHS team and can assist in getting to know the system, the building and the youth.
Hourly Rate: Juvenile Justice moonlighting rate is $225/hr.
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New York State License
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Board Certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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MD or DO
NYU Langone’s programs do not include preferences, quotas, or set asides or otherwise exclude anyone based on race, sex, or other protected categories.
NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,299 open Psychiatrist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$225/hr
- US median$174–200/hr87 hourly ranges
This rate, $225/hr, is 20% above the US median midpoint ($188/hr) — in the middle half of Psychiatrist hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 226 open Psychiatrist jobs in New York and 1,299 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- New York State Civil Service103 open
- Mount Sinai Health System26 open
- NYU Langone Medical Center (this employer)15 open
- Experience
- Psychiatrist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 5 years (270 postings).
- Education
- 706 of the 1,299 open Psychiatrist jobs (54%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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