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Academic Addiction Psychiatry Opportunity in Greenville, NC
Greenville, North Carolina, United States

Job Summary

Occupation Physician
Specialty Psychiatry-Addiction
Degree Required MD/DO
Position Type Permanent/Full-Time
Work Environment Academic/Training Program
Location 27835, Greenville, North Carolina, United States
Visa Sponsorship Yes

Job Description

Last Update: 11/28/23

ECU Health Physicians and The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, located in Greenville, North Carolina are seeking a full-time board eligible/board certified Addiction Medicine Psychiatry Physician or Addiction Medicine Physician at the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor.

ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare have announced plans to build a state-of the-art, 144-bed behavioral health facility that will open in the spring of 2025. The new facility will include 24 inpatient beds dedicated to the mental health needs of children and adolescents.

Highlights include:

  • Employment by ECU Health Physicians-Academic Employment Model
  • Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, a 974-academic medical center
  • Growing 9-hospital physician led healthcare system
  • Provide addiction consult services to ECU Health Medical Center, and other contracted sites, with comprehensive evidence-based patient care
  • Provide a multisystem biopsychosocial addiction evaluation of patients that includes a thorough review of history, diagnostic studies and co-morbid illness
  • Provide assessment for co-occurring conditions and make provisions for treatment, continuation of care or referral for higher level of care when appropriate
  • Establishing an Addiction Psychiatric Fellowship
  • Collaborate with other faculty members in conducting clinical research, with the opportunity to initiate projects.
  • Teaching responsibilities include the supervision of medical professionals rotating through the clinical facilities serviced by this position, teaching in the didactic series in the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship once established, adult psychiatry residency, adult psychiatry grand rounds as well as other affiliated lecture needs to further promote and destigmatize the specialty of Addiction treatment
  • Salary and academic rank (tenure track or fixed term) commensurate with experience and academic background
  • Comprehensive benefits including relocation assistance, vacation & sick PTO, CME days & reimbursement, malpractice (with tail), retirement benefits, state health plan health insurance, employer paid dependent health insurance, medical and dental reimbursements, employer paid AD&D, disability, and life insurance
  • Additional supplemental insurance benefits options – Accident, AD&D, Cancer, Critical Illness, Dental, FSA for Healthcare and Dependent Care Expenses, Life, and Vision

Preferred Experience and Skills:

  • Preferred candidate will have completed accredited Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship program
  • Leadership experience in building and expanding substance use disorder services across a health system
  • History of applying for and/or running an addictions psychiatry fellowship
  • Experience in working collaboratively with other mental health professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team.
  • History of federal grant funding
  • Demonstrated expertise in addiction medicine

ECU Health

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

Greenville, NC
Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Uptown Greenville district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine, and Pitt Community College. Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!

  • Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh, a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of NC
  • Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students
  • Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping
  • Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities
  • Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private
  • Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville’s revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses, and residents to the area