Specific job responsibilities will include:
- Collaborate with leadership to create, seek, and execute strategic initiatives to further the Brody School of Medicine mission; including Child and Adolescent fellowship, robust hospital service and inpatient child unit.
- Identify and obtain resources to optimize clinic services and achieve goals for patient access, patient volume, physician availability and training, productivity, and quality improvement.
- Optimize patient safety and quality of care working with the Medical Director to ensure clinical quality improvement and patient safety.
- Contribution to an environment which enhances professional development of division members with the goal of achieving a highly motivated physician and allied professional group.
- Recruitment and retention of well-trained and qualified professional staff to the division within the clinical needs and compensation policies of ECU Health.
- Foster medical education and research in all clinical programs, assuring engagement of all faculty in these efforts.
- Support scholarly activities which include the education of child psychiatry residents, active research, and support of the school’s research strategy.
- Serve as the ‘face’ of child and adolescent psychiatry and build external relationships, expand the sphere of influence, advocate for improvements and change within the division and seek external support and philanthropy.
- Responsible for fiscal stewardship and operational management in partnership with department administration.
- Focus on patient satisfaction and maintaining a family-centric environment and culture to ensure service and operational excellence that maximize patient satisfaction, outcomes, and impact within and beyond ECU Health.
- Attendance at child and adolescent departmental meetings and general medical staff meetings as required by hospital and school bylaws.
Leadership activities, including patient satisfaction and safety initiatives, risk management and peer review activities.
Employment in this position provides eligibility to participate in the UNC Optional Retirement Program (ORP) which offers matching employer contributions and employee control of investment choices, along with eligibility to participate in various Voluntary Supplemental Retirement Plans (401k, 403b. 457). This position is not eligible to participate in the NC Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS). Additionally, this position offers multiple voluntary options for Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance as well as various supplemental plans including Critical Illness, Flexible Spending Accounts, Cancer, and Disability.
Minimum Education/Experience
- MD or DO from an appropriately accredited institution
- Completion of an accredited psychiatry residency training program or of an approved combined medicine-psychiatry or family medicine-psychiatry residency training program
- ABPN Board Certification in both Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Eligible for unrestricted medical licensure in North Carolina prior to the start of appointment
License or Certification Required by Statute or Regulation
- Graduate of a medical school approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the AAMC and the Council of Medical Education on the AMA; Graduate of an ACGME -accredited psychiatry residency training program and ACGME-accredited child and adolescent training program. Board Certified by ABPN in general and child and adolescent psychiatry. Eligible for license in the State of North Carolina.
Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education
- We are seeking candidates with prior administrative and leadership experience, strong interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to effectively inspire, manage, mentor, and develop faculty and staff.
- 8 years of experience.
- Appropriate for Associate Professor of Psychiatry or a higher academic rank.
- Experience working in academic healthcare setting
- Clinical research background preferred
Special Instructions to Applicant
ECU requires applicants to submit a candidate profile online in order to be considered for the position. In addition, please also submit the following required applicant documents online:
Additional Instructions to Applicant
In order to be considered for this position, applicants must complete a candidate profile online via the PeopleAdmin system and submit any requested documents. Additionally, applicants that possess the preferred education and experience must also possess the minimum education/experience, if applicable.
Job Close Date - Positions will be posted until 11:59 p.m. EST on this date. If no closing date is indicated, the position may close at any time after the initial screening date.
Initial Screening Begins
09/08/2022
Rank Level
Professor, Associate Professor
Quick Link for Direct Access to Posting
https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/51605
AA/EOE
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