Department:

Psychiatry - General - 412202

04/18/2024

Yes

Permanent Faculty

Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED) - Clinical Instructor

Fixed Term Faculty

FAC0005041

Full-Time Permanent

40

1

North Carolina, US

08/12/2024

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OUR MISSION

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.



Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.



Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.



Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The Department of Psychiatry at UNC-Chapel Hill is seeking to hire a Master's level clinician to participate in the research and clinical activities of the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED). This position will be responsible for working in a multi-disciplinary team framework to provide primarily outpatient therapy services to patients of all ages with eating disorders. Responsibilities will include conducting psychological evaluations and providing individual, family, couple, and group psychotherapy. Clinical services may at times be delivered in CEED's inpatient program as well. The Clinical Instructor will also be available to serve as a therapist for funded clinical trials as part of her or his primary duties.

Candidates must have a Master's degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or a related field and have both training and experience in psychotherapy. Candidates must be a licensed therapist in North Carolina with experience working with patients with eating disorders. Candidates must demonstrate strong evidence of interest in eating disorders and training in evidence-based interventions for eating disorders.

Familiarity with cognitive behavioral therapy, family-based treatment, dialectical behavioral therapy and/or couple therapy is preferred. Bilingual in Spanish preferred.

Not Applicable.

Interested candidates may apply by going to


https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/278626 and attaching a curriculum vitae and letter of application. Please include the names of 2-3 references.