Psychiatry - Geriatrics Physician

Psychiatry - Geriatrics Physician at ECU Health summary :

The Psychiatry - Geriatrics Physician position at ECU Health involves providing comprehensive clinical care for geriatric patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The successful candidate will also engage in teaching medical students and residents, participate in clinical supervision, and conduct research within a growing academic division. This role offers a blend of clinical responsibilities, academic opportunities, and a supportive healthcare environment.

ECU Health Physicians and The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at East Carolina University s Brody School of Medicine are seeking a fellowship trained BE / BC Geriatric Psychiatrist. The successful candidate will join a growing academic division with a full-time tenure track appointment at the rank of professor or associate professor. Clinical assistant or clinical associate professor fixed term appointments are also available. New graduates and visa candidates are welcome to apply.

ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare have announced plans to build a state-of the-art, 144-bed behavioral health facility that will open in the spring of 2025. The new facility will include up to 24 inpatient beds dedicated to the mental health needs of geriatric patients.

The successful candidate will provide direct clinical care in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Responsibilities will also include teaching and clinical supervision of medical students, residents, and other health professional trainees and clinical research.

Highlights include :

• Employment by ECU Health Physicians-Academic Practice Model
• Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, Greenville, NC, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina
• Growing 9-hospital physician led healthcare system
• Inpatient clinical responsibilities will be for consults only on the current 52 bed inpatient behavioral health unit
• Outpatient clinical responsibilities will included seeing patients at the ECU Health Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine outpatient clinic and the ECU Health Family Medicine Monk Geriatric Center
• Monday-Friday 8a 5p schedule
• Excellent blend of clinical care, teaching, and scholarly activities
• Work with growing, multi-disciplinary, and collegial department
• Salary and academic rank (tenure track or fixed term) commensurate with experience and academic background

Employment includes :

ECU HEALTH

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research.

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

GREENVILLE, NC

Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10 th 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!

GENERAL INFORMATION

It is the goal of ECU Health and its entities to employ the most qualified individual who best matches the requirements for the vacant position. Offers of employment are subject to successful completion of all pre-employment screenings. We value diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Decisions of employment are made based on business needs, job requirements and applicant s qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information and testing, family and medical leave, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other status protected by law.

Keywords :

Geriatric Psychiatry, Mental Health, Clinical Care, Medical Education, Behavioral Medicine, Patient Care, Academic Medicine, Healthcare System, Teaching, Research