Academic Division Head of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Opportunity in Greenville, NC - ECU Health

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 an innovative and highly collaborative clinician to provide executive and strategic leadership as the Division Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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.

The successful candidate needed to lead and manage the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division by possessing proven administrative and leadership experience, strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to effectively inspire, manage, mentor, and develop faculty and staff.

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
• 50% clinical/50% administrative
• Collaborate with leadership to create, seek, and execute strategic initiatives to further the Brody School of Medicine mission; including Child and Adolescent fellowship, robust hospital service and inpatient child unit
• Identify and obtain resources to optimize clinic services and achieve goals for patient access, patient volume, physician availability and training, productivity, and quality improvement
• Optimize patient safety and quality of care working with the Medical Director to ensure clinical quality improvement and patient safety
• Contribution to an environment, which enhances professional development of division members with the goal of achieving a highly motivated physician and allied professional group
• Recruitment and retention of well-trained and qualified professional staff to the division within the clinical needs and compensation policies of ECU Health
• Foster medical education and research in all clinical programs, assuring engagement of all faculty in these efforts
• Support scholarly activities, which include the education of child psychiatry residents, active research, and support of the school’s, research strategy
• Serve as the ‘face’ of child and adolescent psychiatry and build external relationships, expand the sphere of influence, advocate for improvements, change within the division, and seek external support and philanthropy
• Responsible for fiscal stewardship and operational management in partnership with department administration
• Focus on patient satisfaction and maintaining a family-centric environment and culture to ensure service and operational excellence that maximize patient satisfaction, outcomes, and impact within and beyond ECU Health
• Attendance at child and adolescent departmental meetings and general medical staff meetings as required by hospital and school bylaws
• Leadership activities, including patient satisfaction and safety initiatives, risk management and peer review activities
• 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:

• 8 years of experience in psychiatry field
• Appropriate for Associate Professor of Psychiatry or a higher academic rank.
• Experience working in academic healthcare setting
• Clinical research background preferred

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 10^th 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