Associate Professor or Professor WOT | Director, UW Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Chief of Psychiatry at Seattle Children's Hospital

Description

UW DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY and CHIEF OF PSYCHIATRY - SEATTLE CHILDREN’S

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, and Seattle Children’s Hospital are seeking a qualified individual to serve as Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The selected individual will also serve as Chief of Psychiatry at Seattle Children’s and lead the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine program at Seattle Children’s.

We are looking for one full-time faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor without tenure by reason of funding in either the clinician-teacher or faculty-scientist pathway. 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.

JOB SUMMARY AND STRUCTURE
This position is a senior leadership role at the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI) and Seattle Children’s (SC). The selected individual will oversee the academic mission of faculty in the PBSCI Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and foster the academic success of division faculty. The selected candidate will also provide oversight of clinical services for children and adolescents provided by department faculty, including all department faculty practicing in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine program at Seattle Children’s. This position reports to the Chair of the UW department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

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 mental health care professionals. Our core values include openness, transparency, integrity, engagement, collaboration and mutual respect. Our department is the third largest within the School of Medicine with an annual operating budget in excess of $125 M and a research budget of approximately $50M, with the Children and Adolescent Psychiatry Division awards of approximately $9 M per year.

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

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Primarily based at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Division faculty are part of integrated care programs at the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic and pediatric clinics of the University of Washington with expansion to primary care practices affiliated with Children’s under way. Services at the hospital include an inpatient psychiatry program, well-staffed consultation service, mental health staffing 24-hours/7 days a week in the emergency department, mental health staff embedded in many pediatric medical subspecialty services, neuropsychology, a large autism center, and a range of clinics devoted to anxiety, depression, and behavior problems.

The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a multi-disciplinary group of nearly 80 clinicians, researchers, educators, and staff dedicated to excellent, accessible care for children, youth, and families affected by mental health and substance use problems. The Division offers excellent clinical, training, and research programs ranging from population-based prevention and early intervention to highly specialized treatments for youth with chronic mental health and developmental challenges. Division faculty work at Seattle Children’s and at other sites throughout the community and the state.

Seattle Children’s Hospital

Seattle Children’s serves as