Faculty/Physician - Psychiatry - Thomas Jefferson University

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From time to time, the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior has openings for faculty of all rank and welcome all letters of interest. Strong senior mentorship and interesting clinical, education and research opportunities become available in the following areas:

Inpatient Psychiatry
Full-time position for an inpatient-unit attending, responsible for clinical, educational, and administrative aspects of our 16-bed Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, including quality improvement and meeting accreditation standards. Daily clinical coverage of the unit is shared with multiple psychiatrists. The unit is a key clinical training site that includes Jefferson medical students, residents and fellows. Attending faculty responsibility includes evaluation of new patients, ongoing care, management of comorbid substance abuse, treating comorbid medical issues with appropriate consultation, and coordination of discharge with social work. Outpatient work, in addition to inpatient coverage, is dependent on candidate's blended interests and expertise.
Primary hospital site is the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Addiction Psychiatry
Full-time position for a Psychiatrist with interest in addictions and academic medicine. This position involves providing psychiatric care to patients with substance use disorders within a sophisticated network of established substance use disorders programs, all with experienced multi-disciplinary staffing.

Board eligibility or board certification by the ABPN or ABPM for addiction psychiatry or addiction medicine is preferred.

Consultation-Liaison (CL): Hospital Psychiatric Services / Outpatient Psychiatry
Full-time position focused on mainly inpatient consultation with some outpatient clinical work dependent on candidate's interests and expertise. The Department's Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry has an established tradition of clinical excellence and scholarship.

Neuro-Modulation
Full-time position will be focused mainly on providing Neuro-modulation services to the Jefferson Clinical Population and developing an enterprise-wide Neuro-modulation Program. Services will be provided in the appropriate inpatient and outpatient settings, mainly at the Center City Campus with opportunities at other Jefferson Health Divisions.

Outpatient Psychiatry
Full-time position focused primarily on outpatient medical management with some psychotherapy for a diverse population of patients. Significant opportunities to teach medical students and supervise senior psychiatry residents.

All positions include participation in the faculty weekend call schedule, which involves on-site and telephone coverage about every 10-12 weeks as well as weeknight phone coverage 1-2 nights per month.

If interested in applying for any of the above positions or in reviewing full job descriptions, please contact our Department Administrator, Stephen Swider, MBA: Stephen.Swider@jefferson.edu.

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Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.