Summary

As a psychologist, you will administer direct clinical services to Epworth Psychological Services (EPS) clients. EPS is a community-based outpatient mental health clinic providing psychological evaluations, psychotherapy, and consultation to community members of all ages.   Provisionally licensed psychologists will work under the supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist.

Psychologists cultivate a healthy workplace environment by leading with cultural sensitivity and awareness and by continued awareness of self. The successful candidate will foster teamwork, promote continuous quality improvement, participate in change efforts supporting Epworth's improvement of programmatic efforts, and diligently support programmatic efforts to maximize client outcomes.

This position demonstrates commitment to the mission, vision, and values of the agency by engaging in respectful, cooperative relationships with customers (i.e., clients, employees, and external stakeholders); being accountable for providing services and ensuring safety to customers while empowering customers in achieving the agency’s mission.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide a full range of culturally sensitive and comprehensive psychological evaluations and assessments (including, but not limited to psychoeducational assessments, parenting competency assessments, psychosexual evaluations, vocational assessments, risk assessments, personality assessments, mental health screenings, and comprehensive evaluations) to children, adolescents, and adults.
• Administer, score, and interpret psychometric tests (including, but not limited to cognitive/IQ tests, measures of achievement, objective/projective personality tests, and symptom/behavior rating scales).
• Prepare comprehensive reports including recommendations for intervention.
• Provide individual, couples, family, or group psychotherapy to children, adolescents, or adults as needed.
• Support a culture of continuous quality improvement (CQI) and fidelity of services by assisting in audits, supporting organization wide CQI initiatives, completing documents, case records, outcomes, audits in accordance with EPS policy and state/federal regulations. 
• Assist in generating referrals through outreach activities in the community.
• Responsible for providing weekly coaching and supervision to EPS clinical interns including but not limited to creating learning objectives, documenting supervision, providing feedback to address performance issues, provide in-house trainings, and complete evaluations to communicate the academic progress of the intern's progress.  
• Adhere to EPS policies and standard operating procedures.
• Complete documentation, case records, and outcomes in accordance with EPS policy and state/federal regulations. 
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Provide supervision to EPS’ clinical interns/post-doctoral trainees as needed. 

Qualifications:

• Licensure or eligibility for licensure as a psychologist in Missouri. 
• 2 years’ experience in delivering psychological evaluations and psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.  
• Experience with diverse populations.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:   

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Superior oral and written communication skills
•  Knowledge of assessment techniques, familiarity with various psychological theories and strong case conceptualization skills 
• Excellent knowledge of interventions/treatment modalities.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general professional journals or psychological reports.  
• Proficient in providing efficient and high-quality clinical services.
• Adhere to EPS policies and standard operating procedures.
• Able to participate in data driven discussions focused on program impacts and outcomes, utilization, incidents and best practices on a quarterly basis. 
• Knowledge of best-practices and ensure clinical fidelity in the provision of services.
• Able to write clinical case notes and psychological reports.  
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from clients. 
• Analytical skills including the analysis of psychometric test results. 
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Adheres to agency rules, policies, procedures, and code of conduct including attendance, program/department specific procedures, social media guidelines, training requirements, and confidentiality.
• Skill in developing and maintaining working relationships with colleagues, clients, and community agencies
•  Proficient with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel & Teams 

Physical Requirements: 

Working Environment:

 Benefits: 

• Eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, & Disability on date of hire
• 401(k) eligibility begins on the first of the month following hire date; eligible for company match after 1 year and 1,000 hours of work
• 10 paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday
• 40 hours of PTO on date of hire, additional hours after 90 days
• Extended illness leave

1. Part-time and Full-time availability; open to contract
2. Flexible scheduling
3. Emphasis on work-life balance
4. No after-hours on-call duties
5. No required weekends
6. Generous PTO 
7. Collegial work environment
8. CEU reimbursement
9. Licensure reimbursement 
10. Qualified Public Service Loan Forgiveness employer
11. Great opportunity to expand testing experience with a wide array of current psychological measures

Equal Employment Opportunity

Epworth is an EEO/AA employer. Consistent with this policy, Epworth embraces diversity and welcomes colleagues and applicants of all backgrounds. Our goal is to empower every day and build a community that is inclusive, drawing upon the strengths of the diversity of our colleagues to exceed the expectations of our clients.

About Epworth

Founded in 1864, Epworth is a multiservice agency that seeks to empower youth who have experienced trauma to realize their unique potential by meeting essential needs, cultivating resiliency, and building community. Thousands of youth and families turn to Epworth each year for a full range of services including: therapeutic foster care and case management; residential and intensive treatment; individual/family therapy and comprehensive psychological testing; emergency shelter and longer-term housing services; life skills and vocational training; as well as crisis care and outreach through the Drop-In Center, food pantry, and 24-hour crisis help-line. Epworth is headquartered at 110 N. Elm Ave. in Webster Groves, Missouri and has locations in Normandy and South St. Louis City.

Our Mission
 Empowering youth to realize their unique potential by meeting essential needs, cultivating resiliency, and building community.

Our Vision
 A world in which every youth experiences life in all its fullness.

Our Values

Respect: We recognize the inherent worth and promote the well-being of every client and colleague.

Excellence: We offer evidence-based, high-quality programming and provide exceptional care and service.

Community: We cultivate a sense of belonging and solidarity among colleagues and advocate for racial equality and social justice throughout our communities.