Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor - Psychiatrist, Inpatient | Harborview Medical Center

Description

Harborview Medical Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting for a full-time (100% FTE) Psychiatrist to serve in a faculty position at the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor.

Position Highlights:

• This position provides direct acute care of adults in an inpatient psychiatry unit. As the safety net hospital for Seattle/King County, Harborview patients are diverse along race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and often have both high psychiatric and medical acuity.  
• This position will include serving as an attending physician on one of the three inpatient psychiatry units that are major teaching sites for psychiatry residents and medical students. Faculty are encouraged to participate in quality improvement activities and to generate scholarly projects related to medical education.
• Inpatient Care

Responsibilities:

• Clinical: Acute inpatient care of adults with major mood and psychotic disorders
• Teaching: Bedside teaching for psychiatry residents and medical students
• Academic: Participation in quality improvement and development of medical education scholarly projects.

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.

Harborview Medical Center

Harborview Medical Center (HMC) is a busy county hospital, a regional burn and trauma center, and the major affiliated teaching hospital for UW training programs. HMC provides comprehensive psychiatric services including inpatient, consultation-liaison, emergency, and outpatient programs and a large community mental health center. HMC supports the largest number of UW psychiatry resident rotations at any given time including rotations in inpatient, emergency psychiatry, and outpatient settings. Research programs at HMC include suicide prevention and recovery, harm reduction, addictions, medication development for substance use disorders, and early episode psychosis. A new Behavioral Health Building will house the UW Medicine Behavioral Health Institute and its programs including a 24/7 crisis stabilization unit, the First Episode Psychosis program and the Training, Workforce and Policy Innovation Center.

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/

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