Continuing Education Specialist ; Temporary

Job Description

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department within the School of Medicine with 330 full-time faculty members, 460 courtesy faculty members, and over 350 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest.

The Department’s robust research portfolio totals $67 million in grants and contracts per year for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development.

Psychiatry is the third largest department in the School of Medicine and the largest non-divisioned department. The overall annual operations funding from all sources is over $130 million.

The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine currently has an outstanding opportunity for a
Temporary
Continuing Education Specialist 3. This position is hybrid, with the option for remote work subject to departmental approval.

We are seeking an individual who has lived experience as a family member of a loved one with psychosis who will serve as a Continuing Education Specialist. This role will serve as a Psychosis REACH Family Ambassador trainer for the UW SPIRIT Center. The Psychosis REACH Family Ambassador trainer supports Psychosis REACH virtual workshops, virtual presentations, and co-facilitates Psychosis REACH Family Ambassador trainings using the standardized curriculum.

The Psychosis REACH Family Ambassador trainer will join a robust team of bright, talented, and passionate faculty, staff, and administrators in the UW SPIRIT Center and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.

This position will be critical to the professional reputation and growth of the UW SPIRIT Center, broadly, and Psychosis REACH, specifically. Successful candidates will have already attained the status of a UW-trained Psychosis REACH Family Ambassador and will have experience working with lay family members who are themselves learning Psychosis REACH concepts and skills. The ideal candidate will possess both technical experience with Psychosis REACH, as well as a commitment to disseminating the intervention to families across the globe.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about family training, advocacy, and providing skills coaching and emotional support in a mutual aid role. They will bring in a skillset in group facilitation or teaching and will be eager to learn and apply advanced facilitation skills in this role. They will strive to enhance professional competencies associated with high-quality training, education, and community outreach.

Preferably, candidates will possess familiarity with in-person instruction and both synchronous and asynchronous virtual instruction for adult lay…