The Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychologist is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who will provide a full range of direct and indirect care services primarily within an outpatient setting. Direct psychological services include evidence-based assessment and treatment of illness, injury, and health promoting behaviors in children, adolescents, and families. Indirect patient care includes consultation and collaboration with psychiatry, pediatrics, and other sub-specialties as appropriate; and clinical supervision. Faculty appointment at Eastern Virginia Medical School is available for qualified individuals. Opportunities to conduct research are open to discussion. Reports to Director of Psychology.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical/Direct Patient Care
Utilizing evidence-based practice and procedures, provide individual, family, and group therapy to children and adolescents with mental health needs and co-occurring acute or chronic physical health concerns
Communicate treatment goals and plan to parents/caregivers and members of the treatment team.
Utilize evidence-based practices to promote improved behavioral and emotional functioning.
Develop and facilitate health-related therapeutic and/or psychoeducational groups for children, adolescents and parents/caregivers.
In collaboration with other medical specialties, assist in clinical case conceptualization and treatment planning for youth with complex mental health and physical health concerns.
Coordinate treatment with other disciplines and function within an interdisciplinary team approach.
Conduct psychological assessments to assist with diagnosis and treatment planning.
Program Development and Implementation
Participate in projects related to quality service delivery at various levels of the continuum of care, to include curriculum development and staff training.
When appropriate, assist in development of programs for outpatient, Medical-Psychiatric and Psychiatric-Medical Hospitalization in collaboration with relevant program leadership.
Other Professional Activities
Provide support and coverage to other medical units and programs (Consultation Liaison, Med-Psych, Psych-Med) that serve children with mental health needs and co-occurring acute and chronic physical health conditions.
Provide clinical supervision to psychology trainees and students and facilitate individual and/or group supervision as needed.
Provide education to staff about health psychology topics and the application of integrated care
Problem solve challenging care dynamics in a professional and supportive manner.
Other duties as assigned
LICENSES AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
Licensed, or eligible for licensure, as a Clinical Psychologist by the Commonwealth of Virginia Board of Psychology.
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, either a PsyD or PhD from an APA/CPA accredited program.
Successful completion of an APA/CPA accredited pre-doctoral internship.
Postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology preferred.
Previous clinical experience in pediatric/clinical child and adolescent psychology treating youth with mental health disorders using evidence-based treatments and assessments.
Advanced training in evidence-based practice in pediatric psychology (CBT, Problem solving therapy, systemic and multimodal psychological interventions). Additional experience with evidence-based treatment approaches (e.g., DBT, PCIT, TF-CBT, FBT) appreciated.
Experience providing clinical supervision to mental health providers.
Salary: $100,000 – $135,000/year
