Physician​/Psychiatry - Child​/Adolescent​/Texas​/Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Texas

Position: Physician / Psychiatry - Child/Adolescent / Texas / Permanent / Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Texas Job
Shape the Future of Child & Adolescent Mental Health in a Community Teaching Setting Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty Texas Tech El Paso, TX Outpatient-only practice. Protected research time. Meaningful teaching. Light call. A city with no state income tax and mountains on the horizon. A Practice Built Around You This isn't a position you fit yourself into it's one that fits around the career you want to build.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is recruiting a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist to join a thriving, collegial faculty in a department that combines meaningful clinical work, genuine academic freedom, and a culture where people actually enjoy coming to work. Pure outpatient. No inpatient. No overnight hospital call. Your clinical focus stays exactly where you want it: in the community, with kids and families who need you.

What Your Day Looks Like You'll practice in a 100% outpatient, community-based setting general child and adolescent psychiatry, community clinic, and substance abuse contexts. You'll work alongside six Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows, forensic fellows, and psychology post-doctoral trainees, with ample opportunity to teach and mentor if that energizes you. Call is genuinely light: phone-only coverage, one weekend or three weeknights per month , with evenly rotated holidays.

Optional in-person ER call is available for those who want additional compensation but it's never required. Room to Grow In Every Direction Leadership. Interested in building something? Opportunities exist to lead expansion into a partial hospitalization program and to supervise substance use disorder treatment with the institutional backing to make it real. Research. You'll receive 20% protected time for scholarly activity from day one.

Two fully funded, statewide research projects are ready for you to join immediately focused on childhood trauma and depression/suicide in children and adolescents ages 820. An additional $3,000 in departmental research support is available for faculty pursuing independent work, and grant-funded faculty (including R01-eligible investigators) can negotiate additional protected time. Academic Presence. Conference presentations are actively encouraged and supported. This is a department in active growth , with stable, upfront state funding not promises, not soft money.

El Paso:
Way More Than You'd Expect El Paso is one of the most underrated cities in the Southwest, and it's growing fast. No Texas state income tax your compensation goes further here Outstanding schools , both public and private A culturally rich, bilingual community with world-class dining and a vibrant arts scene symphony, museums, minor league baseball and soccer World-class outdoor living :
Franklin Mountains in your backyard, skiing within two hours Reference