Seattle, WA
Orange, California
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Wilmington, North Carolina
Posted: 12-Mar-25
Location: Seattle, WA
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Internal Number: 164467
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) is seeking candidates for one full-time or part-time faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor without tenure by reason of funding in the faculty-scientist pathway.
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. Part-time positions are not eligible for visa sponsorship. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.
Anticipated Start Date: July 2025
Job Duties
- Provide clinical care as an attending psychiatrist at Harborview Medical Center (HMC).
- Take call responsibilities commensurate with other clinically active faculty in the Department.
- Contribute to scholarship related to research and clinical interests and expertise.
- Develop an independent research program and obtain funding to work on behavioral genetics within addiction services in an outpatient mental health care setting.
- Teach and supervise trainees as appropriate and in conjunction with your clinical and research activities.
- You may have other responsibilities as assigned by the Chair or Service Chief by mutual agreement.
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 Assistant Professor position will be $17,500 - $22,084 per month ($210,000 - $265,008 annually).
Additional compensation associated with this position may include incentive payments through University of Washington (UWP) practice plan.
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
- 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.
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.
