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

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.

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.

Salary 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 $17,500 - $22,084 per month ($210,000 - $265,008 annually).

Qualifications

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

Instructions

• CV - School of Medicine Format
• Cover Letter
• A statement detailing how your teaching, research, and/or clinical service has supported working with patients from a wide range of backgrounds. Applicants who have not yet had the opportunity for such experience should note how their work will further the Department's commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

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