Acting Assistant Professor, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor | Psychologist, Center for Behavioral Health & Learning

Description

We have immediate opening for 1 full time Clinical Psychologist faculty position for the UW Medicine Center for Behavioral Health and Learning. Positions are open rank/titles at Acting Assistant Professor, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor.

Acting and clinical 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. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.

The anticipated start date is as soon as possible. 

Job Duties

• Provide individual and group therapy to adult inpatients. 

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams on treatment planning. 

• Develop behavioral plans for patient behavioral modification. 

• Deliver crisis psychotherapy. 

• Administer psychological testing for diagnostic clarification and treatment planning. 

• Assess violence risk for inpatients and outpatients. 

• Contribute to quality improvement projects.

• Educate staff and trainees on psychological interventions.

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

• Experiences with evidence-based psychological interventions for people with severe mental illness.

• Experiences working on interdisciplinary health care teams.

• Experiences with inpatient psychology.

• Experiences working with underserved populations (e.g., unhoused, ethnic minority, sexual minority).

UW Medicine, Center for Behavioral Health and Learning

This $250m facility houses 75 psychiatry beds for patients on long-term civil commitment status, a 25-bed geriatric psychiatry unit, 50 medical / surgical beds to serve patients with medical / surgical and behavioral health needs, and a state-of-the-art Neuromodulation Center. The facility was designed to include teaching and team areas to support the education of a wide variety of trainees from various healthcare specialties. 

We are currently hiring for inpatient psychologists to staff our 75-bed Long Term Civil Commitment Unit. You will be working with patients ages 18 and over, with principal diagnoses of severe mental illness (SMI). Many people come with trauma or substance use histories, and may have co-morbid personality disorders or an assault history due to their behavioral health disorders. You will also work with people ages 65 and over with a major neurocognitive disorder with or without behavioral disturbances, some of whom may also have a long standing severe mental illness. The Long Term Civil patients are referred from hospitals across Washington, with a subset referred from the state hospitals after being found not competent to stand trial due a behavioral health disorder. The patients are all involuntarily committed based on RCW 71.05 Involuntary Treatment Act (court ordered for up to 90- and 180-days detention). 

We take a patient-centered and recovery model approach that is trauma-informed and culturally-sensitive. Psychological treatment is provided through milieu therapy, all-day group programming by various disciplines including psychology, and individual therapy. A successful job applicant will have extensive training and experience treating people with severe mental illness diagnoses with evidence-based practices and can demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary treatment team.

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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 prog