Psychologist

SUMMARY OF JOB: The Psychologist will work in collaboration with all agency staff to promote quality mental health services for families, children and youth at JCCA.

ESSENTIAL TASKS:

Clinical Interventions:

• Provide individual, group and family psychotherapy for children and adolescents in a residential treatment center.
• Assess and provide family therapy to aid in discharge planning as needed.
• Develop and facilitate support groups agency wide (parents, foster parents, children, adolescents and staff).
• Conduct psychological assessment for children and adolescents, including the administration, scoring, and interpretation of a wide range of cognitive, achievement, projective, and neuropsychological (where indicated) tools.
• Maintain timely progress notes and other clinical notes related to individual therapy cases.
• Provide feedback for psychological assessment findings to interdisciplinary treatment teams as well as clients.
• Work within the context of a multidisciplinary team with the goal of positive outcomes toward permanency.
• Provide crisis intervention and assist with psychiatric hospitalizations on as needed basis.

Supervision and Leadership:

• Participate in ongoing individual and group clinical and assessment supervision of psychology interns and externs within the context of the APA accredited internship program and externship program.
• Participate in ongoing programmatic evaluations and development of the internship and externship programs.
• Attend APA internship/ externship fair and engage in other recruitment opportunities.
• Participate in review of psychology internship and externship applications, and interviewing and selection of applicants.

Training:

• Lead training seminars for staff and psychology trainees in various topics as needed.
• Develop and facilitate clinical training agency wide (parents, foster parents, children, adolescents and staff).

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Attend special administrative meetings (Case Conferences and other relevant meetings).
• Meet with agency-wide psychology department at least quarterly to discuss programmatic and administrative accomplishments, concerns and updates.

EDUCATION REQUIRED:

• A Doctoral Degree in Clinical, Counseling of School Psychology from an American Psychological Association approved training Program
• Licensed as New York State Licensed Psychologist.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

• At least two years’ experience as a practitioner working in the field, doing therapy and assessments; solid organizational and follow up skills; excellent communication skills; computer literacy; ability to manage and work with a variety of different people; excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Fluency in Spanish a plus, and cultural competence a must.