What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dept Admin/Psychiatry/UKHC position at UK HealthCare?
The Department of Psychiatry seeks a motivated accounting/financial professional to serve as the Department Administrator. Reporting to the Chair of the department, the Department Administrator directs financial, operational, and human resources initiatives to support the various clinical, research, and education missions of the Department of Psychiatry. This includes serving as the lead financial administrator for the department, preparing the annual operating budget as well as performing ongoing income/expense analysis. Other duties include ensuring compliance with all Human Resources and University policies and procedures, and recommending process and policy improvements. The Department Administrator will have supervisory responsibilities and spend part of their efforts on strategic projects and initiatives. The individual will provide oversight and focus on fiscal management, purchasing, contract management, grants administration, faculty and staff affairs, facilities management and other duties as required. This individual will serve as a member of the department’s administration team to help build, manage and execute multi-year strategic plans to improve and maintain the provision of behavioral health services across the UKHC Enterprise and UK College of Medicine. The UK Department of Psychiatry is comprised of a diverse team of highly skilled clinicians and staff working together to create a Culture of Health. A Culture of Health is based on the premise that “everyone has the opportunity to live a healthier life” and that as a community “we must work together to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to make healthy choices.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Department of Psychiatry is using this framework to harness the power of academic medicine to deliver cutting-edge clinical services with the expertise derived from robust community engagement to provide a platform for educating and training the future leaders of psychiatry. Our work is only as good as the impact we make on the community we live in. The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine strives to provide the highest level of patient care, innovative educational programs, active research in mental illness and advocacy throughout the state of Kentucky and beyond. These pursuits have helped the department win the American College of Psychiatrists’ Award for Creativity in Psychiatric Education not once, but twice. The Department employs physicians, psychologists, therapists and other mental health professionals to provide a wide variety of behavioral health and substance use treatment services at multiple locations. Our clinicians provide care at our UK Psychiatric & Behavioral Health Care Clinic at Fountain Court – Lexington, KY, Albert B. Chandler Hospital – Lexington, KY, Good Samaritan Hospital – Lexington, KY, Eastern State Hospital – Lexington, KY as well as various other clinics and departments throughout the UK HealthCare system and outside organizations throughout Kentucky. Our team of researchers are working to advance the understanding of behavioral health and how behavioral health conditions are managed and treated. Our department has five ACGME -certified residency training programs which focus on training more than 50 physicians each year to become the future leaders in psychiatry. The Department of Psychiatry’s administrative office is located near the Hamburg area of Lexington at 245 Fountain Ct., Lexington, KY, 40509. This off-campus location provides free onsite parking for employees and patients as well as a primary care/urgent care clinic and retail pharmacy that is accessible for both patients and employees. Forbes magazine announced in February 2023 that it ranked the University of Kentucky sixth out of 500 total companies on its America’s Best Large Employers list. UK is listed second nationally in the education category. The University of Kentucky provides a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and insurance benefits, a competitive 2:1 retirement match up to 5% of an employee’s base salary, discounts to local, regional and national businesses, paid vacation and temporary disability leave (sick time) and 14 paid holidays each year. For additional information on University of Kentucky’s benefits, please visit https://hr.uky.edu/insurance-and-retirement . If you are interested in joining our leadership team to help transform the behavioral health system of care in the Lexington area and throughout Kentucky, please consider applying for this position.
