Clinical Instructor

UNC-Chapel Hill • Chapel Hill, NC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Psychiatry is seeking a full-time, fixed-term faculty member at the rank of Clinical Instructor to work at UNC Youth Behavioral Health (YBH) in Butner, NC. UNC YBH is an advanced 54-bed inpatient psychiatric hospital for children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth (age 18-24) providing specialized, inpatient behavioral health treatment. YBH operates with an integrated, multidisciplinary approach. The position involves providing patient education about mental health disorders and treatment options specific to this population. YBH has 2 general adolescent psychiatry inpatient units, 1 specialized unit for the IDD population, and 1 specialized unit for transitional-age youth (age 18-24).

Requirements

• Experience in trauma therapies
• Experience in systemic and family models of therapy
• Experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Experience with Dialectal Behavioral therapy
• Experience with Trauma informed treatment modalities
• Strong engagement with social work principles and their application to complex problems required for case management and interdisciplinary collaborations and interdisciplinary team meetings.

Nice To Haves

• Experience and interest in teaching or supervision of social work externs, psychology or master’s level interns, and medical residents.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient education about mental health disorders and available treatment options specific to this population.
• Provide brief psychotherapeutic interventions using evidence-based techniques.
• Provide or facilitate evidence-based short term psychosocial treatments to patients and their parents/guardians (e.g., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectal Behavioral therapy, and Trauma informed treatment modalities), psychoeducation, and strategies to support behavioral changes.
• Engage with social work principles and their application to complex problems required for case management and interdisciplinary collaborations and interdisciplinary team meetings.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed