Academic Division Head of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Opportunity in Greenville, NC (Physician )

Company: ECU Health
Location: Greenville
Posted on: January 26, 2023

Job Description:

Psychiatry-Child/Adolescent opening in Greenville, North Carolina. The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at East Carolina University s Brody School of Medicine is seeking an innovative and highly collaborative clinician to provide executive and strategic leadership as the Division Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Division Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will have the demonstrated experience necessary to lead and manage the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division with the drive and persistence to expand the Child and Adolescent services over the next several years. The Division Head will be involved in the newly announced 144 bed state of the art Behavioral Health Hospital scheduled to open in 2025.
Highlights include:

• Employment by East Carolina University s Brody School of Medicine
• 50% clinical/50% administrative
  • 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, 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. Preferred Experience and Skills:
    • 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 in psychiatry field
    • Appropriate for Associate Professor of Psychiatry or a higher academic rank.
    • Experience working in academic healthcare setting
    • Clinical research background preferred The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
      The School of Medicine provides accredited education programs for medical students, residents and fellows, doctoral students in the basic medical sciences, and practicing physicians. The hallmarks of these programs are close-faculty student interaction, experiential learning, and development of students ability to continue learning even after they leave the formal educational setting. Our education programs are consistent with our missions of enhancing generalist training and offering opportunities in medicine to minority and disadvantaged students. ECU Health Medical Center
      ECU Health Medical Center, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, is the flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the teaching hospital for The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health Medical Center is a 974-bed tertiary referral center providing acute, intermediate, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to a 29-county region that is home to more than 1.4 million people. In recognition of its nursing excellence and high-quality patient care, ECU Health Medical Center has been designated a Magnet facility by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Greenville
      Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Uptown Greenville district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine, and Pitt Community College. Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!
      • Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh, a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of NC
      • Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students
      • Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping
      • Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities
      • Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private
      • Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville s revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses, and residents to the area
        

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