"Assistant Professor without Tenure | Psychologist, Multiple Services - Seattle Children's Hospital"

Job Details

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Seattle Children's Hospital are seeking candidates for four (4) full-time faculty positions (1.0 FTE) at the rank of Assistant Professor without tenure for reasons of funding (WOT) in the Clinician Teacher pathway.

The specific needs for each position:

• The first position will serve as a psychologist in the field of neurodevelopmental and related disabilities. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver timely Autism Spectrum Disorder/Developmental Disorder assessments, support interdisciplinary wraparound care, and develop grant-funded community engaged service models.
• The second position will serve as a psychologist treating high acuity and high-risk adolescents, including suicidal youth and those with trauma or behavioral disorders. The successful candidate will be expected to provide and lead intensive programming regarding Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
• The third position will serve as a psychologist specializing in evidence based assessment and therapy for children and adolescents with ADHD, anxiety, sleep issues, depression, and adjustment concerns. They will provide psychology services in the Seattle Children’s outpatient setting and develop expertise in child and adolescent ADHD research.
• The fourth position will serve as a psychologist specializing in Autism Spectrum Disorder/Developmental Disorder. They will be expected to develop advanced behavioral and cognitive expertise in this area, create and lead trainings, and provide leadership related to autism biobehavioral programs.

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.

All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service.

Job Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide direct clinical care at Seattle Children’s Hospital, clinics, and contracted care locations.
• Provide teaching and mentorship to trainees (students, fellows, junior faculty) as appropriate and in conjunction with your clinical activities.
• Take call responsibilities commensurate with other clinically active faculty in the Department.
• There may be opportunities to work in other settings such as the psychiatry-consultation-liaison service, which provides psychiatric consultation to the hospital and emergency department, or Partial Hospitalization Program(s).
• Develop scholarly work.
• You may have other responsibilities as assigned by the Chair or Service Chief by mutual agreement.

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 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 post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships.

Learn more: https://psychiatry.uw.edu/

Seattle Children’s Hospital

Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) is a large tertiary medical center affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine and serving a four-state area. 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.

Salary

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination.

Other compensation associated with this position may include an incentive through Children's University Medical Group (CUMG) practice plan.

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 someone with a PhD/PsyD for an Assistant Professor position will be $9,167 - $10,417 monthly ($110,004 - $125,004 annually).