Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (Part-time)

About the role

The Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC is seeking several part-time board certified (preferred) or board eligible Consultation-Liaison (CL) Psychiatrists to moonlight and provide clinical care for Keck Medicine of USC patients.

Responsibilities

• Report to and work closely with the Medical Director.
• Provide direct consultation-liaison moonlighting psychiatry services and transplant psychiatry services including psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and medication treatment of mental disorders for Keck Medicine patients.
• Support medication treatment with brief supportive therapy and motivational interviewing when indicated, with the provider’s role and expertise primarily relating to the biological treatment of patients.
• Cover after-hours on-call service, as assigned.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to provide comprehensive patient care.
• Provide supervision of psychiatry residents, fellows, and medical students.
• Attend weekly multidisciplinary faculty and staff meetings.
• Participate in yearly merit review and performance evaluations, peer review, quality improvement activities and other unit, departmental, and division teams and committees.
• Attend Psychiatry Department Grand Rounds and Department Matters meetings.

Qualifications

• Must be a State of California Licensed Physician and a board certified (preferred) or board eligible psychiatrist.
• Multicultural competency in working with patients of color, patients from all economic classes, LGBTQ patients, and international patients.
• Resilient, self-aware, and able to thrive in a fast paced, demanding environment.
• Experience in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry services.
• Experience in Transplant Psychiatry.
• An advanced practice clinician possessing well-developed clinical and psychopharmacological skills and the willingness to support the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines for patients.
• Effectively works in a highly diverse and multicultural patient population and LGBTQ affirmative environment.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards of professional practice and to professional integrity.
• Desire to continue to grow as a professional and committed to excellence and lifelong learning.

Benefits

This is a part-time, non-exempt, clinical-educator faculty position with an academic appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and clinical service assignment in consultation-liaison psychiatry (CL) and transplant psychiatry at Keck Medicine of USC, including USC Arcadia Hospital, Keck Hospital of USC, and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Pay

The part-time faculty position is non-exempt, with an hourly rate of $132.21 per hour.

Schedule

The starting date is negotiable.