Assistant Professor WOT | Psychiatrist - Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Position Overview
Organization: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Assistant Professor WOT | Psychiatrist - Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Position Details
Position Description
The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System (VAPSHCS) are seeking candidates for one full-time faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor without tenure (WOT) by reason of funding on the clinician teacher pathway. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service. Specific duties include service as an attending psychiatrist based at VAPSHCS–Seattle, teaching and supervising trainees in conjunction with clinical and research activities, and other duties as assigned by mutual agreement.
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.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The Department of Psychiatry & 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 postdoctoral clinical and research fellowships.
Salary
This position is paid directly by VAPSHCS and receives no UW compensation. Please refer to the VA Puget Sound for information about compensation for this position.
Qualifications
An MD or DO or foreign equivalent, board certification, and eligibility for a Washington State medical license.
Applicants must be U.S. Citizens (permanent residents may be appointed only if it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens)
Instructions
Please submit the following via Interfolio:
- Resume/CV (School of Medicine Format)
- Cover Letter, to include 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
Please direct any inquiries to pbfac@uw.edu.
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.