Assistant Professor - Psychologist, Resident & Faculty Wellness Program

Oregon Health & Science University•Portland, OR

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Joining the team providing clinical services in the Department of Psychiatry’s OHSU Resident and Faculty Wellness Program ( www.ohsu.edu/rfwp). The RFWP was developed to increase resident/fellow and School of Medicine (SoM) faculty access to professional counseling and psychiatric consultation to support their successful and safe practice in medicine and personal well-being. This program served as a model for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) when developing national requirements to promote physician well-being in academic institutions. Our current team (six psychologists, three psychiatrists) provides tailored clinical services for this unique population, along with robust educational outreach and programming, and conducts research on wellness among healthcare professionals. This highly rated program, in place for over 20 years, is a national model and has seen utilization more than triple over the last 10 years. We also provide clinical and educational services to Providence resident physicians and offer telehealth, when indicated, to physicians off campus. Current RFWP initiatives include promoting healthcare professional fulfillment and wellbeing, suicide prevention, increasing outreach to SoM and School of Dentistry (SoD) faculty and expanding the OHSU Peer Support Program www.ohsu.edu/peersupport .

Requirements

PhD or PsyD in Clinical Psychology.
5 or more years of practice post-residency/fellowship.
Outpatient psychological evaluation, ongoing treatment of adults.
Licensed in Oregon and eligible for OHSU credentials.

Nice To Haves

Previous clinical work and/or interest in working with healthcare professionals.
Experience / interest in brief treatment models (CBT, ACT, DBT or insight oriented).
Interest in / experience in teaching, in physician health and clinical outcomes research, and in working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team.
High initiative, organization, and ability to thrive with a lot autonomy.

Responsibilities

Psychological outpatient diagnostic assessment and treatment.
Individual coaching/counseling (offering flexible hours, including three evening appts).
Educational outreach activities (e.g., developing workshops/lectures directed at increasing resilience in dental, medical trainees and SoD and SoM faculty and enhancing professionalism in our academic medical center).
Outreach to OHSU-based and community-based residency training program.
Collaboration with clinical team on treatment plans, educational initiatives, research activities.
Contributions to RFWP program development and facilitation.
This staff psychologist will provide clinical services averaging 12-13 clinical hours during the week Mon-Fri (offering three evening appointment times), monitor emails every weekday and respond in a timely fashion.
This psychologist will participate in the program’s on-call coverage: on average one month a year, providing triage of emergency or urgent calls and management of the intake email inbox.
This coverage will be equitably shared with staff psychologists and psychiatrists.
The remainder of the expected 20 hours of duties a week will be spent on administrative and academic tasks including patient related needs, program needs, and educational outreach.