Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs [Req#: 967234, Position#: 132780]
About The Position
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) invites an exceptional clinical leader to serve as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs within the Department of Psychiatry. The Vice Chair provides strategic leadership for the department’s clinical enterprise, overseeing the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered behavioral health services across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings. The Vice Chair partners with departmental and institutional leadership to advance clinical operations, improve access to care, promote quality and patient safety, support faculty development, and drive strategic growth aligned with the department’s mission of excellence in clinical care, research, and education. Candidates must have excelled in their own clinical practice and already built an outstanding reputation for clinical innovation and clinical care as well as program development. Candidates must have an M.D. or D.O. and be board eligible or board certified. While Texas licensure is not required for consideration or selection, it is a pre-requisite for starting in the position.
Requirements
- M.D. or D.O.
- Board eligible or board certified.
- Must have excelled in their own clinical practice.
- Must have built an outstanding reputation for clinical innovation and clinical care as well as program development.
- Texas licensure is a pre-requisite for starting in the position.
Responsibilities
- Provides strategic leadership for the department’s clinical enterprise.
- Oversees the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered behavioral health services across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.
- Partners with departmental and institutional leadership to advance clinical operations.
- Improves access to care.
- Promotes quality and patient safety.
- Supports faculty development.
- Drives strategic growth aligned with the department’s mission of excellence in clinical care, research, and education.
Benefits
- Generous compensation with a guaranteed salary and wRVU productivity incentive
- 7 days per year to attend conferences, with professional allowance
- Excellent comprehensive, low-cost health insurance (effective on day one)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid 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
- Eligible site for NIH loan repayment program
- $1 million in identity theft protection
- Many employee discounts
- No need for malpractice tail insurance: med/mal is occurrence based
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
