"Assistant Professor/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Professor/Clinical Associate Professor, Professor/Clinical Professor (EHRA Faculty)"

Assistant Professor/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Professor/Clinical Associate Professor, Professor/Clinical Professor (EHRA Faculty)

Position Number: 600144
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 announced plans to build a state of the art, 144-bed behavioral health facility that will open in the spring of 2025. 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. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Downtown Greenville Partnership district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University , the Brody School of Medicine and Pitt Community College. Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!

• Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh and a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of North Carolina.
• Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students.
• Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping.
• Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities.
• Cost of living below the national average, affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private.
• Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville's revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses and residents to the area.

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is compromised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children's Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org

ECU Health Physicians includes a academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is a shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment of clinical care, research and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

Job Duties:

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and ECU Health Physicians, are seeking a Board-Certified or Board Eligible Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to fill a full-time faculty position as a Assistant Professor/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Professor/Clinical Associate Professor, or Professor/Clinical Professor . New graduates and Visa candidates encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will work in both university and community-based settings and will provide direct clinical care both face-to-face and via telepsychiatry. Care will be provided in outpatient child psychiatry, community health centers, via consultations with pediatric practices, juvenile justice teams, resident clinic supervision and inpatient care.

Job Highlights include:

• Employment by ECU Health Physicians-Academic Employment Model
• Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, a 974-academic medical center
• Growing 9-hosptial physician led healthcare system
• Established division offering a blend of clinical are, teaching and scholarly activities
• Assist in the teaching and clinical supervision of medical students, residents, and other health professional trainees
• Collaboration with other faculty members in conducting clinical research, with the opportunity to initiate projects if desired
• Function as a university faculty member, performing such duties as appropriate to academic rank and position
• Salary and academic rank (tenure track or fixed term) commensurate with experience and academic background
• Comprehensive benefits including relocation assistance, vacation & sick PTO, CME days & reimbursement, malpractice (with tail), retirement benefits, state health plan health insurance, employer paid dependent health insurance, medical and dental reimbursements, employer paid AD&D, disability, and life insurance
• Additional supplemental insurance benefits options - Accident, AD&D, Cancer, Critical Illness, Dental, FSA for Healthcare and Dependent Care Expenses, Life, and Vision

Fixed term or Tenure Track position available.

Employment in this position provides eligibility to participate in the UNC Optional Retirement Program (ORP) which offers matching employer contributions and employee control of investment choices, along with eligibility to participate in various Voluntary Supplemental Retirement Plans (401k, 403b. 457). This position is not eligible to participate in the NC Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System (TSERS). Additionally, this position offers multiple voluntary options for Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance as well as various supplemental plans including Critical Illness, Flexible Spending Accounts, Cancer, and Disability.

While this position is not automatically eligible for the NC Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System (TSERS), new hires transferring from another North Carolina state agency and current ECU employees transferring internally who had been enrolled in TSERS in their previous employment will continue participation in TSERS. These individuals may be able to elect to participate in ORP if they had not been offered that option at the time of their initial enrollment into TSERS.

Minimum Education/Experience:

1. MD or DO from an appropriately accredited institution, or completed foreign medical education accepted and recognized for ECFMG Certification.
2. Completion of accredited child and adolescent residency
3. Board certified in general psychiatry and adolescent psychiatry
4. Must be eligible to obtain license to practice medicine in North Carolina

License or Certification Required by Statute or Regulation:

Board Certification or eligibility for board certification.
Eligible to obtain license to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina.

Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education:

Experience working collaboratively with other mental health professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Clinical experience working with persons who have intellectual disabilities.

Experience working in clinical settings in a Medical School Department of Psychiatry

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 VitaeLetter of InterestList of Three References (noting contact information)

Additional Instructions to Applicant:

In order to be considered for this position, applicants must complete a candidate profile online via the PeopleAdmin system and submit any requested documents. Additionally, applicants that possess the preferred education and experience must also possess the minimum education/experience, if applicable.

Job Close Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes
Initial Screening Begins: 02/06/2024

To apply, visit https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/89923