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Position Description

Director, Autism Center Family Access Program

The Department is seeking candidates for one full-time faculty position at the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor. This position will serve as Director for the Family Access Program, which is housed within the Seattle Children's Autism Center. In alignment with ongoing service optimization work at our center, building out service lines and access points within the Seattle Children's Autism Center is required to meet the clinical needs of our patient population.

Clinical Faculty 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. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.

The Director of the Family Access Program would lead the build out and ongoing administrative management of programming at the autism center that is focused on increasing service access points through groups and classes. The Seattle Children's Autism Center has several projects underway in this area and significant philanthropy funds dedicated to this work. We are targeting recruitment of a faculty lead to continue to develop new projects and scale up existing programming to meet this need. Our program values the integration of clinical work and research to evaluate the best ways to help autistic youth and families.

The Director for the Family Access Program will also support diagnostic evaluations at the Seattle Children's Autism Center and Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit at Seattle Children's Hospital as well as participate in our University of Washington APA accredited internship program, postdoctoral fellowship program, and supervise clinical and school psychology practicum students.

The overall role of this position is to provide direct oversight of the Seattle Children's Autism Center Family Access Program. A primary expectation of the position is that the Director will improve the Autism Center's internal service line initiatives in an effort to advance Seattle Children's mission, which includes the promotion of social justice and community access. The Director will lead expansion and oversight of group intervention and class program delivery initiatives in order to increase center-based family and youth service access and reduce wait times for patients served at our center. Specific tasks include:

• Drive continuous performance improvement, quality improvement, education and research efforts targeting service line development in relation to center-based groups and classes.
• Represent the Family Access Program to the leadership team.
• Conduct diagnostic evaluations for youth 5 years.
• Provide supervision to practicum students, psychology and psychiatry residents, and program staff.

Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle Children's Hospital (SCH) is a large tertiary medical center affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine and serving a four-state area. Seattle Children's provides a wide continuum of programming for children in the Pacific Northwest that address community-based care and prevention. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Health is a focus program at SCH and receives extraordinary support for its important role in the Northwest.

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.

Learn more: https://psychiatry.uw.edu/

Positive factors for consideration include but are not limited:

• Experience in working with an inter-disciplinary team
• Knowledge and experience with the neurodiverse populations
• Experience in clinical or school psychology
• Completion of a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology w/ a focus on autism spectrum disorders

Salary

The base salary range for a Clinical Assistant Professor position will be $8,500 - $10,250 per month ($102,000 - $123,000 annually).

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

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination.

Other compensation associated with this position may include an incentive through Children's University Medical Group (CUMG) practice plan.

Qualifications

A PhD or PsyD or foreign equivalent and eligibility for a Washington State license.

Instructions

• Resume/CV
• Cover Letter
• 3 Contact References
• 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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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