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.

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. 

The base salary range for an Acting or Clinical Assistant Professor position will be $110,004 - $125,004 annually ($9,167 - $10,417 per month).

The base salary range for a Clinical Associate Professor position will be $126,000 - $150,000 annually ($10,500 - $12,500 per month)

The base salary range for a Clinical Professor position will be $165,000 - $240,000 annually ($13,750 - $20,000 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.

1. Resume/CV - School of Medicine Format
2. Cover Letter detailing how your training and experience fit with our program 
3. References
4. 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.

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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