Position Announcement - AA2313

Position Overview

Organization: Department of Psychosocial & Community Health / School of Nursing

Title: Assistant Professor

Search #: AA2313

Position Details

The Department of Psychosocial & Community Health is seeking candidates for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor rank, with research, clinical expertise and teaching in community geropsychiatric nursing. This is a full time (100% FTE) tenure-eligible position for a service period of 9 months per year.

Qualifications

Research expertise that integrates psychosocial/mental health nursing and primary care with community, population or public health and/or environmental health foci.
Related expertise in health policy, social and health disparities, cross-cultural nursing or global health is desired.
Capacity to teach at all levels in the School of Nursing curriculum, including PhD, DNP, Master’s level and BSN programs.
Strong commitment to research and ability to secure external funding.
Doctoral degree in Nursing or related field is required.
Certification in specialty is required for psychiatric/ mental health nurse practitioners or for family nurse practitioners, certification preferred for nurses prepared in community health practice.

Department of Psychosocial & Community Health

A lively, collaborative intellectual community that emphasizes critical thinking, participatory decision-making and service.
Is building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from minority candidates.
Places emphasis on collaborative endeavors across three specialty areas: psychosocial nursing, community health and primary care, and promotes the advancement of nursing within an interdisciplinary context.
Focuses on understanding social and health disparities, socio-cultural aspects of health care, and/or cross-cultural and global health issues.
Strongly encourages community involvement to facilitate blending practice and research interests, particularly with a focus on translational research.

University of Washington Faculty engage in teaching, research, and service. The School of Nursing promotes opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborative, community-based and translational research, examples of which include:

Northwest Research Group on Aging
UW Institute on Aging
UW Healthy Aging Research Network
Social Work Education Gero-Ed Center
School of Public Health & Community Medicine
SON de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging
Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Disabilities
Institute of Translational Health Sciences
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

Applications are currently being accepted and continue until position is filled. Please visit the School of Nursing website: http://www.son.washington.edu. Please send letter of interest and CV to:
Dr. Diane Magyary, Faculty Search Committee Chair
Psychosocial and Community Health
Box 357263, University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7263
E-mail: magyary@u.washington.edu Tel. (206) 685-9551
The University of Washington is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.
This position is contingent upon available funding.

If you have a question about the details of this search / position please contact the hiring unit directly. Thank you for your interest in this position at the University of Washington.