Assistant Professor WOT

Position Description

Assistant Professor WOT | Psychiatrist

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Seattle Children's Hospital is seeking candidates for one part-time faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor without tenure by reason of funding in either the clinician-teacher or faculty-scientist pathway.

Assistant Professors are eligible for multi-year appointments that align with a 12-month service period (July 1-June 30). 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. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.

Job Duties

• Involved in early childhood care.
• The position is based in the child psychiatry outpatient clinic.
• The clinic provides assessments as well as psychological and pharmacologic treatment.
• The applicant will work alongside a multidisciplinary team and will be involved in teaching; the clinic is the primary site for early childhood teaching for child psychiatry fellows.
• This position also involves work with the fellowship program; the applicant may have a range of responsibilities depending on their interests, but minimally would involve delivering talks for the child psychiatry fellows related to early childhood and supervising fellows and adult psychiatry residents.
• There are also opportunities for participation in research related to early childhood health services delivery.

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.

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.

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Living in Seattle

The Evergreen State is an outdoor enthusiast's dream with its geological diversity, including mountains, deserts, rainforests, and a Pacific coastline. It offers the Olympic Mountains, the San Juan Islands and Mount Rainier. Over the past decade, Seattle has become one of the most exciting and fastest growing cities in the world. Seattle is a vibrant city with a diverse range of businesses such as Boeing, Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon, Expedia, Nintendo, and Zillow. It is a young and educated city, a place that is constantly changing as it changes the world, and all this innovation happens in a spectacular natural setting surrounded by lakes, oceans, forests and mountains.

Salary

The base salary range for this position will be commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination.

The base salary range for an Assistant Professor position will be $18,750 - $22,750 per month ($225,000 - $273,000 annually).

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

Benefits

As a University of Washington employee, you receive excellent benefits including a variety of health plan options, generous retirement plans, life insurance and long-term disability coverage. While many of these programs are administered by the Washington State Public Employees Benefit Board, the UW Benefits team helps new employees understand their options at Welcome Day and provides those preparing to retire resources and guidance.

Qualifications

Qualifications

1. An M.D. or D.O. or foreign equivalent, current medical licensure, and eligibility for a Washington State medical license.
2. 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.

Instructions

Please submit the following via Interfolio:

• 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.

Benefits Information

A summary of benefits associated with this title/rank can be found at . Appointees solely employed and paid directly by a non-UW entity are not UW employees and are not eligible for UW or Washington State employee benefits.

Commitment to Diversity

The University of Washington is committed to building diversity among its faculty, librarian, staff, and student communities, and articulates that commitment in the UW Diversity Blueprint (/). Additionally, the University's Faculty Code recognizes faculty efforts in research, teaching and/or service that address diversity and equal opportunity as important contributions to a faculty member's academic profile and responsibilities ().

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