Position Description

UW DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY and CHIEF OF PSYCHIATRY - SEATTLE CHILDREN'S

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, and Seattle Children's Hospital are seeking a qualified individual to serve as Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The selected individual will also serve as Chief of Psychiatry at Seattle Children's and lead the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine program at Seattle Children's.

We are looking for one full-time faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor without tenure by reason of funding in either the clinician-teacher or faculty-scientist pathway. 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 SUMMARY AND STRUCTURE
This position is a senior leadership role at the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI) and Seattle Children's (SC). The selected individual will oversee the academic mission of faculty in the PBSCI Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and foster the academic success of division faculty. The selected candidate will also provide oversight of clinical services for children and adolescents provided by department faculty, including all department faculty practicing in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine program at Seattle Children's. This position reports to the Chair of the UW department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

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 mental health care professionals. Our core values include openness, transparency, integrity, engagement, collaboration and mutual respect. Our department is the third largest within the School of Medicine with an annual operating budget in excess of $125 M and a research budget of approximately $50M, with the Children and Adolescent Psychiatry Division awards of approximately $9 M per year.

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

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Primarily based at Seattle Children's Hospital. Division faculty are part of integrated care programs at the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic and pediatric clinics of the University of Washington with expansion to primary care practices affiliated with Children's under way. Services at the hospital include an inpatient psychiatry program, well-staffed consultation service, mental health staffing 24-hours/7 days a week in the emergency department, mental health staff embedded in many pediatric medical subspecialty services, neuropsychology, a large autism center, and a range of clinics devoted to anxiety, depression, and behavior problems.

The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a multi-disciplinary group of nearly 80 clinicians, researchers, educators, and staff dedicated to excellent, accessible care for children, youth, and families affected by mental health and substance use problems. The Division offers excellent clinical, training, and research programs ranging from population-based prevention and early intervention to highly specialized treatments for youth with chronic mental health and developmental challenges. Division faculty work at Seattle Children's and at other sites throughout the community and the state.

Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle Children's serves as the primary pediatric hospital for the Puget Sound area, as well as a tertiary and quaternary care referral center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho - the largest geographic region served by any children's hospital in the country. UW Medicine has a longstanding affiliation with Seattle Children's and considers it a key partner to advance its mission to improve the health of the public. Seattle Children's is the main training site for many of our child psychiatry and psychology training programs.

Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Seattle Children's operates an inpatient unit (41 beds), performs over 58,000 outpatient visits/year to over 9,700 unique patients, including tele-video visits and telephone consultations to pediatricians and other primary care providers throughout the Pacific Northwest. SC also operates a state-funded Partnership Access Line program serving clinicians caring for children in the states of Washington and Wyoming. The SC Autism Center provides 20,000 visits to over 4,200 unique families each year. Outpatient services are offered at three sites: the hospital's Magnuson Clinic (the main outpatient site) and at Children's regional clinics in Everett and Federal Way, Washington. Services at the Federal Way site focus particularly on serving Spanish-speaking families. Acute care services at Children's include 24/7 mental health evaluator coverage in the general emergency room, a variety of crisis clinics focusing on acute suicidality and behavior problems, and a soon-to-be-opened mental health urgent care clinic.

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.

JOB DUTIES

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Work closely with PBSCI leadership and leadership at SC on strategic initiatives to benefit the mental health of children, adolescents, and their families.
• Work closely with the PBSCI Department Chair to provide leadership and supervision for faculty, staff, and trainees in the department's Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Work with the Department Chair and HR staff to recruit and credential division faculty.
• Provide mentorship to junior division faculty and conduct annual academic performance reviews of division faculty as representative of the Chair.
• Supervise and support faculty who provide medical direction and clinical leadership for psychiatric services at SC and other departmental practice sites serving children and adolescents.
• Work with the PBSCI Vice Chair for Finance and Administration and Finance Director to oversee clinical performance reviews and monitor clinical benchmarks for clinically active division faculty.
• Monitor and support compliance requirements for clinically active division faculty.
• Prepare for and chair monthly meetings and Clinical Case Conferences for SC faculty in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Represent division faculty and staff at PBSCI Leadership Council meetings.
• Encourage and support academic collaborations for division faculty.
• Perform other clinical or academic leadership duties as assigned by the Department Chair.

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

• Faculty position at associate professor level or higher.
• Leadership experience with demonstrated ability to foster the success of others.
• Nationally recognized leader in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (national recognition is required for Professors; regional recognition is required for Associate Professors).
• Substantial track record of academic scholarship in education and/or discovery.
• Licensed physician with a history of at least five years of medical practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Experience with obtaining external research funding.
• Experience with training and educational programming in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Experience with interdisciplinary training, research, and clinical work (e.g., collaborations with psychology, social work, and other relevant disciplines).
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with managing the business aspects of clinical practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of or training in process improvement or patient safety.
• Experience with fundraising.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism as a guiding principle.

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 Associate Professor position will be $19,584 - $23,334 monthly ($235,008 - $280,008 annually)

The base salary range for a Professor position will be $20,000 - $26,250 monthly ($240,000 - $315,000 annually)

Other compensation associated with this position may include a temporary salary supplement, administrative salary supplement (ADS) and/or incentive through Children's University Medical Group (CUMG) practice plan.

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

• 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 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

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