UAB Staging Transition for Every Patient (STEP) Child Psychiatrist
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Alabama (UAB) School of Medicine is offering a full-time faculty position for a licensed, or Alabama license eligible, Child Psychiatrist in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Rank, tenure status and salary are commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Seeking a staff psychiatrist for the UAB Staging Transition for Every Patient (STEP) program, a fully staffed multidisciplinary integrated clinic that helps young adults with complex and chronic health conditions and developmental learning conditions move from pediatric care to adult care. STEP is expanding to meet the behavioral health needs of patients with developmental learning conditions such as autism and intellectual disability and serious health conditions such as cerebral palsy and neuromuscular disease, who are reaching adulthood and require the specialized care and attention of an interdisciplinary team. The team is seeking an enthusiast Psychiatrist with strong collaboration skills to work with their team in providing comprehensive care to these patients.
The STEP psychiatrist would have primary clinical and service responsibilities to the multidisciplinary STEP inpatient and the newly developing STEP hospital consult, continuity of care service. This psychiatrist would be responsible for collaborating with social workers and physicians on the STEP team to manage the psychiatric aspects of current and new STEP patient’s care at UAB hospital and outpatient settings. The psychiatrist would attend STEP team meetings and actively participate in building out the consult service in a collaborative manner that supports the team, patient needs and UAB system. This team member will support hospital and emergency room throughput by helping facilitate hospital discharges by providing rapid access for discharging patients who are managed by the STEP team.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a research university and academic health center that discovers, teaches, and applies knowledge for the intellectual, cultural, social, and economic benefit of Birmingham, the state, and beyond. UAB is internationally renowned for its intensely collaborative culture that has — for more than five decades — produced breakthroughs in education, health care, research, and service. UAB was ranked #1 in the United States for 2018 and 2019 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Young University Rankings. In 2021, Forbes named UAB as America’s No. 1 Best Large Employer, topping a list of more than 500 public and private corporations, hospitals, universities, Fortune 500 companies and more, across dozens of industries.
UAB Medicine is the third largest public academic medical center in the country, with more than 1,900 beds and almost 18,000 employees. We are the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the state of Alabama. UAB Hospital is the centerpiece of the UAB Health System and is the teaching hospital for the UAB School of Medicine. Situated among major research centers and clinics, UAB Hospital provides patients with a complete range of primary and specialty care services, as well as the most up-to-date treatments and innovations in health care. In addition to UAB Hospital, UAB Medicine includes The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital, UAB Callahan Eye Hospital, as well as several primary and specialty care clinics, a dozen member and affiliate hospitals within Alabama, more than 10 cancer associates in the Southeast, and the Viva Health HMO.
Interested candidates should apply here: https://uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23820 by submitting an online application to include a cover letter and curriculum vitae. Evaluation of applications will occur as they are received and will continue until all available positions are filled.
A pre-employment background investigation is performed on candidates selected for employment. In addition, physicians and other clinical faculty candidates who will be employed by the University Of Alabama Health Services Foundation (UAHSF) or other UAB Medicine entities must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen to be hired.
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