Acting Assistant Professor, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor | Psychologist, Center for Behavioral Health & Learning
Acting Assistant Professor, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor | Psychologist, Center for Behavioral Health & Learning
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Job Description
In the summer and fall of 2025 we will have up to three Clinical Psychologist faculty positions available 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 Late Summer or Fall of 2025.
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 a 14-bed voluntary adult 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 and our 14-bed Voluntary Unit. You will be working with patients ages 18 and over with principal diagnoses of severe mental illness (SMI). The Voluntary Unit will have patients with a wide range of diagnoses. 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 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 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.
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 Acting or Clinical Assistant Professor position will be $110004 - $125004 annually ($9167 - $10417 per month).
The base salary range for a Clinical Associate Professor position will be $126000 - $150000 annually ($10500 - $12500 per month)
The base salary range for a Clinical Professor position will be $165000 - $240000 annually ($13750 - $20000 per month)
Additional compensation associated with this position may include temporary salary supplement (TPS) administrative salary supplement (ADS) and/or incentive payments through the UW Physicians (UWP) practice plan.
1. A PhD or PsyD current licensure and eligibility for a Washington State medical license.
2. In order to be eligible for University sponsorship for an H-1B visa graduates of foreign (non-U.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.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
