The Department of Psychiatry has an opening for a Psychologist on the Transplant Team at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO.
The Department of Psychiatry (DOP) collaborates closely with a broad range of clinical departments at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) to provide integrated behavioral health care in primary and specialty medical settings. Psychologists from the DOP provide integrated consultation services to the UCH Transplant Center. Services are provided in an outpatient and medical inpatient setting for heart, lung, kidney, pancreas, and/or liver recipients as well as living liver or kidney donors. The psychologist in this role will also be a team member on the DOP Adult Division Integrated Behavioral Health Service.
The psychologist recruited for this full-time position will become part of the DOP growing and dynamic Adult Division. This is an open rank position and could be categorized as Instructor, Senior Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor based on experience and qualifications as indicated below.
Key Responsibilities:
- Psychological Assessment & Intervention:
o Conduct psychological evaluations, including interview and appropriate testing, for living donors and organ transplant candidates.
o Conduct comprehensive assessments of areas including addiction, mental health conditions, trauma, neurocognitive disorders, as well as other areas which may impact transplant success.
o Provide brief psychological intervention for patients with complex chronic health concerns.
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration:
o Liaison with interdisciplinary team providers including physicians, social workers, dietitians, and nurses, to coordinate and ensure optimal comprehensive care.
o Present case summaries and participate in case discussions to determine transplant candidacy during transplant selection of committee meetings.
o Provide supervision to psychology and psychiatry trainees, completing training on the transplant psychology service.
- Research and scholarship:
o Work collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary transplant teams to develop clinical practice protocols to develop cutting edge transplant care.
o Lead and participate in scholarly projects in solid organ transplantation.
o Join dynamic and growing transplant center, and integrative behavioral health team developing novel approaches to patient.
