Assistant Psychology

Children's of Alabama; Five Points South (AL); On-site; USD 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham’s Main Campus Dearth Tower seeks a Psychology Assistant for Behavioral Health Outpatient. This full-time Day Shift role (8a–4:30p) supports assessment protocols and testing across diverse pediatric cases.

Responsibilities include determining patient readiness for assessments and applying innovative, standardized testing for severely disabled, emotionally disturbed, or non-English speaking clients while maintaining compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum two years administering psychological tests.
• Preference for Psychology Assistant experience.
• Credentials with Equivalent Qualifications: BS/BA

Responsibilities

• Determine if patients can respond to assessment protocols.
• Apply innovative, standardized testing for diverse cases including non-English speakers.

Skills

Psych testing

Data collection

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

In Behavioral Health Outpatient at Main Campus Dearth Tower

Work schedule will be Full-time on the Day Shift, 8a-430p.

Summary

The Psychology Assistant will make determinations concerning whether patients are capable of responding to assessment protocols, and must be innovative in testing severely disabled, emotionally disturbed, hearing impaired or non-English speaking patients while still adhering to standardized procedures.

Other information

• Education: Bachelor's degree is required.
• Experience: Minimum of two years administering psychological or educational tests or a Psychology Assistant or similar position preferred.

Licensures, Certifications, and/or Registries

Credentials with Equivalent Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science or Arts

Education with Equivalent Qualifications:

• Essential: Bachelors of Science or Arts

Experience with Equivalent Qualifications:

• Nonessential: 0 Year job experience as Staff Level with specialization in the field of Behavioral Counseling

Children’s of Alabama has two Behavioral Health outpatient clinics; one location is the Ireland Center (on the campus of Children's of Alabama Hospital) and the other location is an offsite location at Patriot Park, 200 Wildwood Parkway Birmingham, AL 35209. Our treatment team is comprised of Psychiatrists, Nurse Practitioners, Licensed Psychologists, and Licensed Therapists to provide multidisciplinary care for our patients and families. Our outpatient clinics offer individual and family counseling for children, adolescents and their families. Our providers work with patients and families to address and mitigate behavioral and mental health issues including, but not limited to ADHD, mood disorders, and medication management for related disorders. We provide crisis clinic appointments for those patients assessed in the ED to be in need of urgent outpatient services, but do not meet inpatient or PHP admission criteria. In addition, we offer bridge clinic appointments to existing patients who have missed the most recent appointment with their prescriber or who have an urgent need to see a prescriber before the next scheduled appointment. We provide social service counseling that provides brief solution focused support to families as well.

Schedule: 8a-430p, Day Shift, Monday-Friday Standard Days