Medical Director of Student Wellness and Counseling Center and Student and Resident Mental Health and Wellness

General Information

As part of the UT Southwestern Medical Center clinical team in Psychiatry, you will join in an evolving effort to push ahead of the traditional boundaries of medicine, deliver cures, and transform patient care. In our growing downtown Dallas campus, we have psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists and many varied students advancing the development of neurotherapeutic interventions for challenging brain disorders, discovering advanced understanding of the causes of psychiatric illnesses and cures. At UT Southwestern, your ideas and skills will be put to work in ways that serve you, our patients, our community, and the world. Our 3,000 UT Southwestern faculty foster teamwork and teach the skills that best reflect the changing landscape of therapeutics and health care delivery. Our research environment is one of the most advanced in the world, and the day-to-day quest for discovery will inspire your best work.

Profile

This position will serve as the Medical Director of the UT Southwestern Student Wellness and Counseling Center. The Medical Director is expected to be an active clinician with a demonstrated understanding of how to successfully manage change within a university environment. In this position, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of approximately 10 mental health professionals who provide comprehensive behavioral health care to campus learners including medical students, graduate students, and residents.  The care offered includes outreach and screening, wellness activities, mental health office visits, and virtual care visits, addressing a variety of mental health conditions and situational/academic challenges.       

This position will be performed in conjunction with a role as the Medical Director for Student and Resident Mental Health and Wellness and is responsible for facilitating the development of students and residents, by reducing psychological problems and distress by enhancing mental health, well-being, quality of life, and optimal functioning through the delivery of high-quality, culturally sensitive services to UT Southwestern students, residents and the larger campus community. As the Chief Wellness Officer for our students across our four schools (UT Southwestern Medical School, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Professions, and the Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health) as well as our Graduate Medical Education trainees, this position will also report to the Vice Provost and Senior Associate Dean for Education.

Essential Functions

The Medical Director of Student and Resident Mental Health and Wellness is responsible for:

• Continuing to expand on the non-clinical offerings to students in Student Wellness, such as various workshops on coping/cognitive behavioral therapies and mindfulness classes for stress management
• Identifying and mitigating new and persistent drivers which may impact wellness and/or mental health in students and residents
• Assisting departments in addressing wellness issues encountered by their residents and/or that may be department or clinic specific
• Utilizing evidence-based and "best practice" approaches for improving wellness and mental health as well as contributing new evidence in areas where it is lacking
• Collaborating and working closely with the Medical Director of Student Health, General Internal Medicine Clinic Manager, and Deans of Students, Graduate Schools, and School of Health Professions
• Serving on related committees at the medical center
• Refining and continuing to grow the awareness and utilization of the Resident Clinic

Candidates must have an M.D./D.O. and be board certified or board eligible in General Psychiatry. While Texas licensure is not required for consideration or selection, it is a pre-requisite for starting in the position. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated interest in pursuing an academic career. Academic experience and a strong track record of clinical teaching is a plus. 

Highlights of the Opportunity

• Generous compensation with a guaranteed salary and wRVU productivity incentive, as well as 7 days per year to attend conferences, with professional allowance
• Excellent comprehensive, low-cost health insurance (effective on day one), dental, vision, retirement, life insurance, and disability benefits
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• Paid Parental Leave and holidays (including floating holidays that can be used anytime)
• Paid Time Off (available on day one)
• Eligible site for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and NIH loan repayment program
• As employees of a public, State of Texas organization, physicians are entitled to $1 million in identity theft protection and many employee discounts
• No need for malpractice tail insurance: med/mal is occurrence based
• No state income tax

Mission/Vision

Discover, Educate, and Heal the Mind, Body, and Brain

The Department of Psychiatry’s vision is to meet the behavioral health needs of diverse communities across North Texas and beyond by increasing equitable access to psychiatric care and the latest advancements in neuroscience and psychiatry and preparing an effective workforce to achieve these objectives.

Team

Our department offers expertise in broad specialty and subspecialty areas of psychiatry and opportunities to collaborate with experts in our field. To serve the diverse communities of North Texas and maintain the excellence of our institution, we welcome faculty candidates who will bring additional dimensions to our research, teaching, and clinical mission, including underrepresented groups.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community.  As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

Appointment rank will be commensurate with academic accomplishment and experience. Consideration may be given to applicants seeking less than a full-time schedule.

To learn more about the benefits UT Southwestern offers, visit https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/employees/hr-resources/

Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000