VACANCY NUMBER: M-3132
DESCRIPTION: The Correctional Medicine Consultation Network Pain Management Program (CMCN PMP) provides multidisciplinary services to an ethnically diverse group of patients within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) who are medically indigent, with concurrent medical and severe psychosocial problems. The important objectives of this position are to provide and develop mental health services to address the complex needs of these patients, and to education CDCR health care providers in working with patients with chronic pain and severe psychosocial stresses, traumas, and/or substance abuse problems. The expectation is that this position will improve the way that integrative medical and mental health care is provided for complex patients in the CDCR by addressing and overcoming the mental health problems and psychosocial obstacles that otherwise interfere with more effective chronic pain management.
Within the Department of Family and Community Medicine and under the direction of the Director of the CMCN PMP, the successful candidate will provide training and consultation to clinicians about pain management; provide psychiatric assessments and pharmacotherapies within a multidisciplinary approach to treat chronic pain; support long term pain self-management behavior change for adult CDCR patients with chronic pain syndromes and complex psychiatric and psychosocial problems; provide training, consultation and clinical care to providers and patients at community sites through linkages of paroled inmates to public health facilities; and provide training and supervision of students, interns, fellows, and residents for an accredited or non-accredited program in correctional medicine.
REQUIREMENTS: Valid license from the California Board of Psychology and completed educational training in Psychology; experience in treatment of adults with a broad spectrum of psychiatric disorders; experience working with patients with severe psychosocial stresses, chronic pain and medical problems and substance abuse problems; demonstrated experience in a hospital-based service or primary care clinic, working with primary care providers; experience in providing brief cognitive behavioral treatment and behavioral medicine approaches; demonstrated competency in working with culturally diverse, low income, and medically indigent patients; and ability to travel to various California prison sites.
Candidates who are bilingual in Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Russian or Mandarin are preferred.
SUBMIT: Curriculum vitae and cover letter.
The University of California, San Francisco, is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. The University undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for underutilized minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for covered veterans. UCSF seeks candidates whose experience, teaching, research or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence.
Stephen Rao, MD
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of California - San Francisco
1940 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 415-476-5274
Fax: 415-476-2207
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