Assistant Professor/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Professor/Clinical Associate Professor

Assistant Professor/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Professor/Clinical Associate Professor Position Number: 000671 Full Time or Part Time: Full Time Anticipated Recruitment Range: Commensurate with qualifications Position Type: Faculty (Teaching) Job Category: Faculty (Physician) Organizational Unit Overview: ECU Health Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine is dedicated to providing excellence in education, patient care, scholarship, and service in mental health. We strive to foster a collaborative environment committed to improving the health and well-being of the people of eastern North Carolina and beyond. We support and advance evidence-based practice, sound scientific principles, and compassion in addressing the needs of our learners, our patients, our colleagues and our community.ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare have built a state of the art, 144-bed behavioral health facility, opening soon. The new facility will include 24 inpatient beds dedicated to the mental health needs of children and adolescents.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 art, music, culinary and festival scene in the Downtown Greenville Partnership 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 playLocated inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh and a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of North Carolina. 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, 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.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 compromised 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.orgECU Health Physicians includes a academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is a shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment of clinical care, research 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. Job Duties: The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine invites applicants who are board eligible/board certified Addiction Medicine Psychiatry Physician or Addiction Medicine Physician to apply for our 12-month, fixed-term or tenure-track appointments at the title/rank of Clinical Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor/Associate Professor.Clinical responsibilities will include providing addiction consult services to ECU Health Medical Center, and other contracted sites, including comprehensive evidence-based patient care. The selected candidate will be able to provide a multisystem biopsychosocial addiction evaluation of patients that includes a thorough review of history, diagnostic studies and co-morbid illness. They will be able to provide assessment for co-occurring conditions and make provisions for treatment, continuation of care or referral for higher level of care when appropriate.The selected candidate will collaborate with other faculty members in conducting clinical research, with the opportunity to initiate projects. Teaching responsibilities include the supervision of medical students; residents and other health care professionals rotating through the clinical facilities serviced by this position.The position also includes 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/title (tenure track or fixed term) commensurate with experience and academic background. Will consider up to 1.0 FTE.Position contingent upon availability of funding.Employment in this position provides eligibility to participate in the UNC Optional Retirement Program (ORP) which offers matching employer contributions and employee control of investment choices, along with eligibility to participate in various Voluntary Supplemental Retirement Plans (401k, 403b. 457). This position is not eligible to participate in the NC Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS). Additionally, this position offers multiple voluntary options for Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance as well as various supplemental plans including Critical Illness, Flexible Spending Accounts, Cancer, and Disability. Minimum Education/Experience: MD or DO from an appropriately accredited institution, or completed foreign medical education accepted and recognized for ECFMG Certification.Board eligible/certified in Addiction specialty (psychiatry or medicine)Eligible for medical licensure in the State of North Carolina, have a current state and federal prescriptive authority as well as a valid DATA 2000 waiver to prescribe buprenorphine products for the treatment of addiction. License or Certification Required by Statute or Regulation: Eligible to obtain license to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina. Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education: None Special Instructions to Applicant: East Carolina University requires applicants to submit a candidate profile online in order to be considered for the position. In addition to submitting a candidate profile online, please submit online the required applicant documents:Curriculum VitaeLetter of InterestList of Three References (noting contact information)At the time of employment two to three original letters of reference, official transcripts, a criminal background check, and proper documentation of identity and employability are required. Please be aware that if selected for an interview, an automatic e-mail will be sent to the individuals entered by the applicant in the References section of the PeopleAdmin applicant tracking system. Letters of reference submitted via the PeopleAdmin applicant tracking system will be verified and considered towards meeting this requirement. Additional Instructions to Applicant: In order to be considered for this position, applicants must complete a candidate profile online via the PeopleAdmin system and submit any requested documents. Additionally, applicants that possess the preferred education and experience must also possess the minimum education/experience, if applicable. Job Close Date: Open Until Filled: Yes Initial Screening Begins: 01/02/2026 To apply, visit https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/90306 Copyright ©2025 Jobelephant.com Inc. All rights reserved. Posted by the FREE value-added recruitment advertising agency jeid-bc4d22368ff3dd4eb0b26a4de200f58c