Associate Professor or Professor WOT Director UW Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Chief of Psychiatry at Seattle Childrens Hospital

UW DIRECTOR DIVISION OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY and CHIEF OF PSYCHIATRY SEATTLE CHILDRENS

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

We are looking for one fulltime faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor without tenure by reason of funding in either the clinicianteacher or facultyscientist pathway. Faculty with 12month service periods are paid for 11 months of service over a 12month period (JulyJune) 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 Childrens (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 Childrens. 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 Medicines 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 consultationliaison perinatal mental health and geriatric psychiatry a nationally renowned scientistpractitioner psychology internship program and numerous postdoctoral clinical and research fellowships.

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Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Primarily based at Seattle Childrens Hospital. Division faculty are part of integrated care programs at the Odessa Brown Childrens Clinic and pediatric clinics of the University of Washington with expansion to primary care practices affiliated with Childrens under way. Services at the hospital include an inpatient psychiatry program wellstaffed consultation service mental health staffing 24hours/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 multidisciplinary 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 populationbased prevention and early intervention to highly specialized treatments for youth with chronic mental health and developmental challenges. Division faculty work at Seattle Childrens and at other sites throughout the community and the state.

Seattle Childrens Hospital

Seattle Childrens serves as the primary pediatric hospital for the Puget Sound area as well as a tertiary and quaternary care referral center for Washington Alaska Montana and Idaho the largest geographic region served by any childrens hospital in the country. UW Medicine has a longstanding affiliation with Seattle Childrens and considers it a key partner to advance its mission to improve the health of the public. Seattle Childrens is the main training site for many of our child psychiatry and psychology training programs.

Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Seattle Childrens operates an inpatient unit 41 beds) performs over 58000 outpatient visits/year to over 9700 unique patients including televideo visits and telephone consultations to pediatricians and other primary care providers throughout the Pacific Northwest. SC also operates a statefunded Partnership Access Line program serving clinicians caring for children in the states of Washington and Wyoming. The SC Autism Center provides 20000 visits to over 4200 unique families each year. Outpatient services are offered at three sites: the hospitals Magnuson Clinic (the main outpatient site) and at Childrens regional clinics in Everett and Federal Way Washington. Services at the Federal Way site focus particularly on serving Spanishspeaking families. Acute care services at Childrens include 24/7 mental health evaluator coverage in the general emergency room a variety of crisis clinics focusing on acute suicidality and behavior problems and a soontobeopened mental health urgent care clinic.

Living in Seattle

The Evergreen State is an outdoor enthusiasts dream with its geological diversity including mountains deserts rainforests and a Pacific coastline. It offers the Olympic Mountains the San Juan Islands and Mount Rainier. Over the past decade Seattle has become one of the most exciting and fastest growing cities in the world. Seattle is a vibrant city with a diverse range of businesses such as Boeing Starbucks Microsoft Amazon Expedia Nintendo and Zillow. It is a young and educated city a place that is constantly changing as it changes the world and all this innovation happens in a spectacular natural setting surrounded by lakes oceans forests and mountains.

JOB DUTIES

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Work closely with PBSCI leadership and leadership at SC on strategic initiatives to benefit the mental health of children adolescents and their families.
• Work closely with the PBSCI Department Chair to provide leadership and supervision for faculty staff and trainees in the departments Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Work with the Department Chair and HR staff to recruit and credential division faculty.
• Provide mentorship to junior division faculty and conduct annual academic performance reviews of division faculty as representative of the Chair.
• Supervise and support faculty who provide medical direction and clinical leadership for psychiatric services at SC and other departmental practice sites serving children and adolescents.
• Work with the PBSCI Vice Chair for Finance and Administration and Finance Director to oversee clinical performance reviews and monitor clinical benchmarks for clinically active division faculty.
• Monitor and support compliance requirements for clinically active division faculty.
• Prepare for and chair monthly meetings and Clinical Case Conferences for SC faculty in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Represent division faculty and staff at PBSCI Leadership Council meetings.
• Encourage and support academic collaborations for division faculty.
• Perform other clinical or academic leadership duties as assigned by the Department Chair.

Positive factors for consideration include but are not limited to:

• Faculty position at associate professor level or higher.
• Leadership experience with demonstrated ability to foster the success of others.
• Nationally recognized leader in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (national recognition is required for Professors; regional recognition is required for Associate Professors).
• Substantial track record of academic scholarship in education and/or discovery.
• Licensed physician with a history of at least five years of medical practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Experience with obtaining external research funding.
• Experience with training and educational programming in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Experience with interdisciplinary training research and clinical work (e.g. collaborations with psychology social work and other relevant disciplines).
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with managing the business aspects of clinical practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of or training in process improvement or patient safety.
• Experience with fundraising.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity equity inclusion and antiracism as a guiding principle.

Salary

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 an Associate Professor position will be $19584 $23334 monthly $235008 $280008 annually)

The base salary range for a Professor position will be $20000 $26250 monthly $240000 $315000 annually)

Other compensation associated with this position may include a temporary salary supplement administrative salary supplement (ADS) and/or incentive through Childrens University Medical Group (CUMG) practice plan.

1. An M.D. or D.O. or foreign equivalent current medical licensure and eligibility for a Washington State medical license.
2. In order to be eligible for University sponsorship for an H1B visa graduates of foreign (nonU.S. medical schools must show successful completion of all three steps of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) or equivalent as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.