Assistant Professor WOT, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Seattle Children's Hospital, Multicultural Services
Position Overview
Organization: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Assistant Professor WOT, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Seattle Children's Hospital, Multicultural Services
Position Details
Position Description
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is an integral component of the UW School of Medicine and it shares UW Medicine’s Mission to ‘Improve the Health of the Public.’ We strive to 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 healthcare professionals for the Pacific Northwest. Our core values include openness, transparency, integrity, engagement, collaboration, and mutual respect. We embrace and value diversity in all of its aspects. The department is the third largest department within the School of Medicine and has a $78 M operating budget. Department faculty members provide clinical services and teach at health care facilities in the Puget Sound area and at several rural locations in the WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho). The department also has a robust research portfolio nearly $35 M annually in sponsored projects. Educational programs include a nationally renowned scientist-practitioner psychology internship program and post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships, a required medical student clerkship for 240 medical students per year at 30 sites across the WWAMI region, a nationally competitive psychiatry residency with more than 70 psychiatry residents in Seattle and in two regional residency tracks in Idaho and Montana, and subspecialty fellowships in addiction, child and adolescent, consultation-liaison, and geriatric psychiatry.
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.
The University of Washington’s Division of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Seattle Children’s is seeking candidates for one full or part-time academic psychologist at the rank of Assistant Professor without tenure due to funding (WOT) 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. We anticipate the hire to take place in Summer/Fall 2022.
This position will specialize in the care of children, youth, and families requiring ambulatory psychiatry services (both traditional outpatient and intensive outpatient). The Division is developing a site of care located in a community in Western Washington that is among the most diverse in the state, including both families that have lived in the region for generations and those that are newly arrived from other parts of the world. Services at the site will be delivered by a multi-disciplinary team that includes psychology, psychiatry, care navigators, and others. The position would involve taking a leadership role in planning the division’s approach to expanding multicultural services with a range of activities to be determined in consultation with the division chief and colleagues.
This position will be involved in psychology and psychiatry training, research, and clinical care. The successful candidate will participate in the division’s child psychiatry fellowship and psychology internship program.
All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, scholarly activity, and service. Initial support is provided to help incoming faculty members develop their areas of scholarly interest.
All of the division’s psychiatrists also participate in on-call coverage in the Seattle Children’s Child Psychiatric Inpatient Unit (PBMU) and in call backing up child psychiatry fellows.
Positive factors for consideration include but are not limited to experience within multicultural treatment settings, prior work partnering with community groups, and fluency in a language or languages in addition to English.
Qualifications
MD or DO, or foreign equivalent; board certified or eligible in child and adolescent psychiatry, and licensure eligibility in Washington State.
Instructions
Please submit the following via Interfolio:
- CV
- A letter of interest
- 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.
For additional information about the position, please contact Dr. Will French, william.french@seattlechildrens.org.
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
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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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COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements and Information
Under University of Washington (UW) Policy, University-compensated personnel must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof thereof, or receive a UW-approved medical or religious exemption. This requirement will be a condition of any offer associated with this recruitment. For more information, please visit https://www.washington.edu/coronavirus/vaccination-requirement/.