Assistant Professor without Tenure | Psychiatrist | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Center for Behavioral Health & Learning

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and UW Medicine Center for Behavioral Health and Learning is seeking candidates for six (6) faculty positions between .60-1.0 FTE at the rank of Assistant Professor without tenure for reasons of funding (WOT) in the Clinician Teacher pathway. We are anticipating these positions to start July 1 2026.

Assistant Professors are eligible for multi-year appointments that align with a 12-month service period (July 1-June 30). 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.

Job Duties

• Provide clinical care at UW Medical Center-Northwest (UWMC-NW).
• Take call responsibilities commensurate with other clinically active faculty in the Department.
• Teach and supervise trainees as appropriate and in conjunction with your clinical activities.
• 175 Days of Clinical Coverage per 1.0 FTE per year structured as 7-on-7-off
• Cover up to 15 patients per day with work hours of 7am to 7pm.
• Assume primary psychiatric management of patients while collaborating with other members of the multidisciplinary team including trainees.

All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching research and service.

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 psychiatrists 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. Psychiatric treatment is provided through milieu therapy all-day group programming by various disciplines including psychology and individual therapy. This position will treat people with severe mental illness diagnoses with evidence-based practices and 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 UWSchool of Medicine and shares UW Medicines mission to Improve the Health of thePublic. We accomplish this by providing the best care we can today conducting researchto develop better treatments for tomorrow and inspiring and training the next generation ofhealth care professionals for the Pacific Northwest. Our core values include opennesstransparency integrity engagement collaboration and mutual respect. Our departmentis the third largest within the School of Medicine.

As the only academic psychiatry department serving Washington Wyoming AlaskaMontana and Idaho we are committed to improving access to psychiatric care andconsultation throughout the greater Pacific Northwest. Our educational programs includea required medical student clerkship for 260 medical students per year at some 30 sitesacross the WWAMI region a nationally competitive psychiatry residency program withmore than 90 psychiatry residents in Seattle and in two regional residency tracks in Idahoand 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 andresearch fellowships.

Learn more: is commensurate with experience and qualifications or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination.

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.

The base salary range for someone with a M.D./D.O. for an Assistant Professor position will be $17500 - $22084 per month ($210000 - $265008 annually).

An M.D. or D.O. or foreign equivalent current medical licensure and eligibility for a Washington State medical license.

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 -time positions are not eligible for visa or permanent residence sponsorship.