**Pediatric Psychiatry Division Chief Opening in Greenville, NC**
Raleigh 86m
Seeking an innovative and highly collaborative clinician to provide executive and strategic leadership as the Division Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
* The successful candidate needed to lead and manage the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division by possessing proven administrative and leadership experience, strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to effectively inspire, manage, mentor, and develop faculty and staff.
* 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 24 inpatient beds dedicated to the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
**Highlights**
* 50% clinical/50% administrative
* Collaborate with leadership to create, seek, and execute strategic initiatives to further the 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
* 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 schools, 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
* 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
* Comprehensive benefits including relocation assistance, vacation & sick PTO, CME days & reimbursement, malpractice (with tail), retirement benefits, state health plan health insurance, employer paid dependent health insurance, medical and dental reimbursements, employer paid AD&D, disability, and life insurance
* Additional supplemental insurance benefits options Accident, AD&D, Cancer, Critical Illness, Dental, FSA for Healthcare and Dependent Care Expenses, Life, and Vision
**Preferred Experience and Skills:**
* 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