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Acting Assistant Professor | Psychiatrist, Acute Services - Seattle Children's Hospital

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Seattle Children's Hospital are seeking a candidate for one full-time or part-time faculty position at the rank of Acting Assistant Professor. This position will work in with acute mental health services at Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH). This may include providing clinical care on our Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit (PBMU), on the Psychiatry Consultation and Liaison team which provides psychiatric consults to the inpatient units and emergency department, and/or within our Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program.

The Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit (PBMU) is the largest child inpatient psychiatric unit in Washington state, serves patients ages 4-17, and has 41 beds. It is the only inpatient psychiatric unit in the area that accepts patients on the Autism spectrum or with comorbid medical complexity.

The successful candidate will join the PBMU team. The PBMU has a large multidisciplinary team that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, mental health therapists, nurses, case managers, and pediatric mental health specialists as well as trainees from these various disciplines. The PBMU psychiatrists lead the interdisciplinary team to provide psychiatric evaluation and family-focused treatment to hospitalized patients.

Acting Assistant Professor appointments are for one year, renewable up to a maximum of four years, consistent with university policy.

Acting faculty hold annual appointments that align with a 12-month service period (July 1-June 30) and may be reappointed to subsequent annual terms. Faculty with 12-month service periods are paid for 11 months of service over a 12-month period (July-June), meaning the equivalent of one month is available for paid time off. Part-time positions are not eligible for visa sponsorship. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.

Job Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing direct clinical care at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the PBMU. 
• Teach and supervise trainees as appropriate and in conjunction with your clinical activities.
• Take call responsibilities commensurate with other clinically active faculty in the Department.
• There may be opportunities to work in other acute settings such as the psychiatry-consultation-liaison service, which provides psychiatric consultation to the hospital and emergency department, or Partial Hospitalization Program(s).
• Develop scholary work regarding acute psychiatric care.
• You may have other responsibilities as assigned by the Chair or Service Chief by mutual agreement.

Positive factors for consideration include, but are not limited to:

• Interest in working in a fast-paced clinical environment
• Interest in treating a diverse group of patients with a range of psychiatric and medical presentations
• Interest in working on an interdisciplinary team.

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is an integral component of the UW School of Medicine and shares UW Medicine’s mission to ‘Improve the Health of the Public.’ We accomplish this by providing the best care we can today, conducting research to develop better treatments for tomorrow, and inspiring and training the next generation of health care professionals for the Pacific Northwest. Our core values include openness, transparency, integrity, engagement, collaboration, and mutual respect.

Our department is the third largest within the School of Medicine. As the only academic psychiatry department serving Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, we are committed to improving access to psychiatric care and consultation throughout the greater Pacific Northwest. Our educational programs include a required medical student clerkship for 260 medical students per year at some 30 sites across the WWAMI region, a nationally competitive psychiatry residency program with more than 90 psychiatry residents in Seattle and in two regional residency tracks in Idaho and Montana, subspecialty fellowships in addiction, child and adolescent, consultation-liaison, perinatal mental health and geriatric psychiatry, a nationally renowned scientist-practitioner psychology internship program, and numerous post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships.

https://psychiatry.uw.edu/

Seattle Children’s Hospital

Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) is a large tertiary medical center affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine and serving a four-state area. Seattle Children’s provides a wide continuum of programming for children in the Pacific Northwest that address community-based care and prevention. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Health is a focus program at SCH and receives extraordinary support for its important role in the Northwest.

Salary

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination.

Other compensation associated with this position may include an incentive through Children's University Medical Group (CUMG) practice plan.

The base salary range for an Acting Assistant Professor position will be $200,004 - $240,000 annually ($16,667 - $20,000 monthly).

An M.D. or D.O. or foreign equivalent, current medical licensure, and eligibility for a Washington State medical license.

In order to be eligible for University sponsorship for an H-1B visa, graduates of foreign (non-U.S.) medical schools must show successful completion of all three steps of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), or equivalent as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

• CV - School of Medicine Format
• Cover Letter
• A statement detailing how your teaching, research, and/or clinical service has supported underrepresented populations across dimensions of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, backgrounds, and interests. Applicants who have not yet had the opportunity for such experience should note how their work will further the Department’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.