We?re Hiring Daytime and Nighttime Psychiatric Hospitalists

In the summer and fall of 2025, we will have up to five Psychiatric Hospitalist faculty positions available for the UW Medicine Center for Behavioral Health and Learning

There are currently (5) full-time (0.5-1.0 FTE) faculty positions available. Positions are open rank/title as Acting Assistant Professor, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor.

Psychiatric Hospitalists play a vital role in our collaborative and supportive environment. Daytime roles offer a blend of inpatient care, teaching opportunities, and the option to integrate telehealth into your practice. Nocturnists ensure seamless overnight coverage for our diverse patient population, including adults and geriatric patients across inpatient units and our consult service, working closely with Hospital Medicine.

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

• 186 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.

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.

Video: Center for Behavioral Health and Learning

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.

https://psychiatry.uw.edu/

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. 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 an Acting or Clinical Assistant Professor position will be $17,500 - $19,584 per month ($210,000 - $240,008 annually).

The base salary range for a Clinical Associate Professor position will be $19,584 - $23,334 per month ($235,008- $280,004 annually).

The base salary range for a Clinical Professor position will be $20,834 - $25,000 per month ($250,008 - $300,000 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 Services.

• Resume/CV
  • School of Medicine Format
• Cover Letter
• A statement detailing how your teaching, research, and/or clinical service has supported underrepresented populations across dimensions of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, backgrounds, and interests. 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.

Questions may be directed to Dr. Ryan Kimmel, Chair, Chief of Service, by email to rjkimmel@uw.edu.

Consideration of candidates will continue until the positions are filled.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.

Benefits Information

A summary of benefits associated with this title/rank can be found at https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/benefits-orientation/benefit-summary-pdfs/. Appointees solely employed and paid directly by a non-UW entity are not UW employees and are not eligible for UW or Washington State employee benefits.

Commitment to Diversity

The University of Washington is committed to building diversity among its faculty, librarian, staff, and student communities, and articulates that commitment in the UW Diversity Blueprint (http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). Additionally, the University?s Faculty Code recognizes faculty efforts in research, teaching and/or service that address diversity and equal opportunity as important contributions to a faculty member?s academic profile and responsibilities (https://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/FCG/FCCH24.html#2432).

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Disability Services

To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or dso@uw.edu.

About University of Washington

Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest public institutions in the west coast and one of the preeminent research universities in the world. The University of Washington is a multi-campus university comprised of three different campuses: Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell. The Seattle campus is made up of sixteen schools and colleges that serve students ranging from an undergraduate level to a doctoral level. The university is home to world-class libraries, arts, music, drama, and sports, as well as the highest quality medical care in Washington State and a world-class academic medical center. The teaching and research of the University’s many professional schools provide undergraduate and graduate students the education necessary toward achieving an excellence that will serve the state, the region, and the nation. As part of a large and diverse community, the University of Washington serves more students than any other institution in the Northwest.

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