"Assistant Professor/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Professor/Clinical Associate Professor"

Position Overview

Position Number: 000671

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Anticipated Recruitment Range: Commensurate with qualifications

Position Type: Faculty (Teaching)

Job Category: Faculty (Physician)

Organizational Unit Overview

ECU Health Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine is dedicated to providing excellence in education, patient care, scholarship, and service in mental health. We strive to foster a collaborative environment committed to improving the health and well-being of the people of eastern North Carolina and beyond. We support and advance evidence-based practice, sound scientific principles, and compassion in addressing the needs of our learners, our patients, our colleagues and our community.

ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare have built a state of the art, 144-bed behavioral health facility, opening soon. The new facility will include 24 inpatient beds dedicated to the mental health needs of children and adolescents.

Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. [...] www.ecuhealth.org

Job Duties

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine invites applicants who are board eligible/board certified Addiction Medicine Psychiatry Physician or Addiction Medicine Physician to apply for our 12-month, fixed-term or tenure-track appointments at the title/rank of Clinical Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor/Associate Professor.

Clinical responsibilities will include providing addiction consult services to ECU Health Medical Center, and other contracted sites, including comprehensive evidence-based patient care. The selected candidate will be able to provide a multisystem biopsychosocial addiction evaluation of patients that includes a thorough review of history, diagnostic studies and co-morbid illness. They will be able to provide assessment for co-occurring conditions and make provisions for treatment, continuation of care or referral for higher level of care when appropriate.

The selected candidate will collaborate with other faculty members in conducting clinical research, with the opportunity to initiate projects. Teaching responsibilities include the supervision of medical students; residents and other health care professionals rotating through the clinical facilities serviced by this position.

The position also includes teaching in the didactic series in the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship once established, adult psychiatry residency, adult psychiatry grand rounds as well as other affiliated lecture needs to further promote and destigmatize the specialty of addiction treatment.

Salary and academic rank/title (tenure track or fixed term) commensurate with experience and academic background. Will consider up to 1.0 FTE.

Position contingent upon availability of funding.

Minimum Education/Experience

• MD or DO from an appropriately accredited institution, or completed foreign medical education accepted and recognized for ECFMG Certification.
• Board eligible/certified in Addiction specialty (psychiatry or medicine)
• Eligible for medical licensure in the State of North Carolina, have a current state and federal prescriptive authority as well as a valid DATA 2000 waiver to prescribe buprenorphine products for the treatment of addiction.

License or Certification Required by Statute or Regulation

Eligible to obtain license to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina.

Special Instructions to Applicant

East Carolina University requires applicants to submit a candidate profile online in order to be considered for the position. In addition to submitting a candidate profile online, please submit online the required applicant documents:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Letter of Interest
• List of Three References (noting contact information)

At the time of employment two to three original letters of reference, official transcripts, a criminal background check, and proper documentation of identity and employability are required. [...] To apply, visit https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/90306