Acting Assistant Professor | Psychologist, Consultation Liaison - Seattle Children's Hospital

Description

The University of Washington’s Division of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital and The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is seeking candidates for one part-time or full-time faculty position at the rank of Acting Assistant Professor. The psychologist will work primarily as part of Psychiatry Consultation/Liaison (C/L) Service providing direct clinical care as well as working closely with other members of the subspecialty teams to optimize clinical outcomes. The C/L team includes child psychiatrists, child psychiatry fellows, child psychologists, psychology residents, advanced practice nurses, a team mental health therapist, and a case manager.

We are seeking a part-time or full-time child and adolescent clinical or pediatric psychologist to meet the behavioral health needs of youth, and their families, who are admitted to the SCH’s inpatient pediatric services.

Acting Assistant Professor appointments are for one year, renewable up to a maximum of four years, consistent with university policy.

Acting faculty hold annual appointments that align with a 12-month service period (July 1-June 30) and may be reappointed to subsequent annual terms. 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. Part-time positions are not eligible for visa sponsorship. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.

Job Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide consultation and collaborate closely with other members of the subspecialty teams to deliver care in service of optimal outcomes.
• Spend one day a week working with the outpatient Mood and Anxiety Program (MAP).
• Engage in a wide range of clinical activities in a variety of medical settings with a multi-disciplinary medical care team and with patients experiencing acute and chronic health care challenges.
• Pursue opportunities to bring ongoing funded research activities to Seattle Children’s or to build an active clinical research program (research activities would not exceed 0.2-0.3 FTE); modest research start-up support may be available depending on the applicant’s interests and qualifications.
• Collaborate with faculty in the C/L and MAP programs, as well as with psychologists/psychiatrists on research, training, and cross-specialty interventions addressing a wide range of children’s mental health issues.
• Participate in family and community-oriented education and collaborate in program development.
• Serve as a clinical supervisor in the University of Washington APA-accredited psychology internship program.
• Take call responsibilities commensurate with other clinically active faculty in the Department.
• You may have other responsibilities as assigned by the Chair or Service Chief by mutual agreement.

Positive factors for consideration include, but are not limited to:

• Interest in working in a fast-paced clinical environment
• Interest in treating a diverse group of patients with a range of psychiatric and medical presentations
• Interest in working on an interdisciplinary team. 

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 inter