Details
Posted: 05-Apr-24
Location: Seattle, Washington
Type: Full Time
Position Description
Harborview Medical Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting for a full-time (100% FTE) Psychiatrist to serve in a faculty position at the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor.
Position Highlights:
- This position provides direct acute care of adults in an inpatient psychiatry unit. As the safety net hospital for Seattle/King County, Harborview patients are diverse along race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and often have both high psychiatric and medical acuity.
- This position will include serving as an attending physician on one of the three inpatient psychiatry units that are major teaching sites for psychiatry residents and medical students. Faculty are encouraged to participate in quality improvement activities and to generate scholarly projects related to medical education.
- Inpatient Care
Responsibilities:
- Clinical: Acute inpatient care of adults with major mood and psychotic disorders
- Teaching: Bedside teaching for psychiatry residents and medical students
- Academic: Participation in quality improvement and development of medical education scholarly projects.
Clinical 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. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.
Harborview Medical Center
Harborview Medical Center (HMC) is a busy county hospital, a regional burn and trauma center, and the major affiliated teaching hospital for UW training programs. HMC provides comprehensive psychiatric services including inpatient, consultation-liaison, emergency, and outpatient programs and a large community mental health center. HMC supports the largest number of UW psychiatry resident rotations at any given time including rotations in inpatient, emergency psychiatry, and outpatient settings. Research programs at HMC include suicide prevention and recovery, harm reduction, addictions, medication development for substance use disorders, and early episode psychosis. A new Behavioral Health Building will house the UW Medicine Behavioral Health Institute and its programs including a 24/7 crisis stabilization unit, the First Episode Psychosis program and the Training, Workforce and Policy Innovation Center.
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.
Learn more: https://psychiatry.uw.edu/
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 a Clinical Assistant Professor position will be $16,667 - $19,584 per month ($200,004 - $240,008 annually).
The base salary range for a Clinical Associate Professor position will be $19,584 - $21,667 per month ($235,008- $260,004 annually).
The base salary range for a Clinical Professor position will be $20,000 - $25,000 per month ($240,000 - $300,000 annually).
Additional compensation associated with this position may include temporary salary supplement (TPS), administrative salary supplement (ADS) and/or incentive payments through the UW Physicians (UWP) 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.
Summary of Benefits for Faculty with Appointments of 9 - 12 Months.
Qualifications
- 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
Instructions
- Resume/CV
- 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 https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/benefits-orientation/benefit-summary-pdfs/. 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 (http://www.washington.edu/diversity/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 (https://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/FCG/FCCH24.html#2432).
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Disability Services
To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or dso@uw.edu.
