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Acting Assistant Professor | Psychologist, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Clinic - Seattle Children's Hospital

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School / Campus / College: School of Medicine

Organization: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Title: Acting Assistant Professor | Psychologist, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Clinic - Seattle Children's Hospital

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Position Description

Acting Assistant Professor | Psychologist, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Clinic - Seattle Children's Hospital

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Seattle Children's Hospital (SCH) in the outpatient Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Clinic is seeking a candidate for one full-time or part-time faculty position at the rank of Acting Assistant Professor. The SCH DBT Clinic provides full comprehensive outpatient DBT for adolescents aged 13-17 who present with significant mental health challenges including suicidality, self-harm, and other complex comorbid problems.

Acting Assistant Professor appointments are for one year, renewable up to a maximum of four years, consistent with university policy.

Acting 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. Part-time positions are not eligible for visa sponsorship. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.

Job Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• The faculty psychologist will be involved in delivering all modes of DBT including individual therapy, multi-family skills group, phone coaching, and DBT consultation team.
• They will also have opportunities to deliver family focused aspects of the treatment, including the DBT parent skills group, as well as working closely with caregivers and families as a parent therapist and parent phone coach.
• The faculty psychologist will also be involved with research, program development and evaluation, and measurement-based care efforts in the clinic.
• In addition to providing direct clinical care, this position would involve supervising trainees such as postdoctoral psychology fellows, pre-doctoral psychology interns, psychology practicum students, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows.
• There may also be opportunities to work in other clinics and settings within the hospital across the continuum of care.
• There are robust opportunities for clinically integrated scholarly work in the DBT clinic and other hospital settings.
• Take call responsibilities commensurate with other clinically active faculty in the Department.
• You may have other responsibilities as assigned by the Chair or Service Chief by mutual agreement.

Positive factors for consideration include, but are not limited to:

• Interest in working in a fast-paced clinical environment
• Interest in treating a diverse group of patients with a range of psychiatric and medical presentations
• Interest in working on an interdisciplinary 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.