Kids Are Our Everything.
Department
10272 Psychology
Pay Range
$100,000.00 - $300,000.00
The Psychology Intern will work under general supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist at the doctoral level. The intern will provide comprehensive psychosocial consultation/assessment for identified patients/families and based on findings, facilitate interventions. Fosters positive and professional interpersonal relationships with patients/families, physicians, hospital staff, community agency representatives and visitors. Learn to effectively use interpersonal communication skills to resolve conflicts and to promote positive well-being.
Minimum Education
Vocational Education Enrolled in a CSWE-accredited Master of Social Work program (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Strong communication skills.
Ability to relate to divergent patient populations.
Sensitivity to individuals from varied backgrounds and cultures.
Functional Accountabilities
Patient/Family Plan
- Provide comprehensive psychosocial assessment for identified patients and families; develop plan for intervention based on assessment.
- Uses range of communication skills to assist patients, families and staff to address care needs and complex issues.
- Facilitate interventions, based on assessment, family and staff requests, and timeframe.
- Facilitate the child protection process of assessment, referral, plan, and implementation, if appropriate.
- Provide follow-up services as appropriate and assess outcome of interventions.
- Document assessment and interventions in the patient’s medical record, in accordance with departmental standards.
Multidisciplinary Communication With Patient/Family
- Communicate with relevant hospital staff about patient care issues to insure continuity of care.
- Advocate for patient and family needs within the hospital system.
- Facilitate the discharge planning process by working with Case Management staff, nursing staff, and physicians.
- Participate in team meetings to address general and specific patient care issues.
- Help to organize patient care conferences when complex issues arise.
- Learn to educate staff about psychosocial issues impacting treatment plans.
External Resources
- Research appropriate resources to assist families to care for their children at home.
- Share information with relevant agencies, respect patient/family confidentiality.
- Maintain positive and effective referral relationships with community agencies and professional organizations.
- Maintains positive and effective referral relationships with community agencies and professional organizations.
- Advocate for patient/family needs within the community.
Patient/Family Outcome
- Intervene in complex situations involving patient care needs, communication problems, or systems issues.
- Research appropriate solutions within the hospital or in the community.
- Learn to mediate conflictual situations, collaborate with other staff as appropriate.
- Provide assistance to patients, families, and staff, while maintaining respect for boundaries; set appropriate limits.
Safety
- Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
- Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
- Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
- Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
- Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
- Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.
Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.
Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.
