Clinical Psychologist- Risk Specialist

New Hampshire Hospital; Concord (NH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Relocation assistance

CME time and funds

Job summary

New Hampshire Hospital in Concord, NH, part of Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine, seeks a licensed doctoral Psychologist to join our psychiatry faculty serving in an inpatient setting.

The role centers on violence risk assessment, comprehensive psychological evaluations, clinical consultation, and education within a multidisciplinary team. Opportunities exist for supervision, teaching, research, and quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Must have a doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology and APA/CPA‑accredited internship.
• Experience with inpatient populations and violence risk assessment is highly desirable.
• Teaching, supervision, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams are expected.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive psychological assessment including risk assessments, with emphasis on violence risk in inpatient populations.
• Develop integrated formulations using interviews, testing, and collateral information to inform treatment and risk management.
• Provide expert consultation and recommendations to multidisciplinary teams.
• Conduct specialized risk assessments (violence, sexual violence, suicide) and provide risk consultation.
• Offer supervision and mentorship to psychology interns/students and contribute to education and research.
• Complete clinical documentation including progress notes, treatment plans, and reports.

Skills

Clinical psychology

Risk assessment

Psychological testing

Inpatient care

Teaching

Education

Doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology (PhD/PsyD)

Predoctoral internship (APA/CPA)

Job description

Clinical Psychologist- Risk Specialist

New Hampshire Hospital – Concord, NH

The Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is seeking a licensed, doctoral level Psychologist with strong clinical, and teaching interests to join our faculty and serve patients at New Hampshire Hospital, our affiliated state psychiatric facility located in Concord, New Hampshire.

In this role, you would be a collaborative member of a multidisciplinary team, providing clinical psychology services to individuals with severe mental illness in an inpatient setting. The position offers the opportunity to provide comprehensive psychological assessment, clinical consultation, and evidence-based recommendations for complex clinical presentations. A significant focus of the position is violence risk assessment, with additional opportunities to conduct sexual violence, suicide, and other specialized risk assessments and to provide risk consultation and education to treatment teams.

The psychologist will work closely with psychiatrists, APRNs, nurses, social workers, rehabilitation staff, and other disciplines to develop integrated clinical formulations and treatment and risk-management recommendations. The position also offers opportunities for supervision, teaching, research, and quality improvement.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide comprehensive psychological assessment services, including psychodiagnostic, personality, and specialized risk assessments, with a particular focus on violence risk assessment in complex inpatient populations.
• Develop integrated psychological formulations using clinical interviews, psychological testing, behavioral observations, psychiatric history, collateral information, and other relevant data to inform treatment and risk management.
• Provide expert psychological consultation, formulation, and treatment recommendations to multidisciplinary teams that include psychiatrists, APRNs, residents, nurses, guardians, aftercare agencies, and other medical and behavioral health providers.
• Conduct specialized risk assessments, including violence, sexual violence, suicide, and other emerging areas of risk assessment.
• Provide clinical consultation to treatment teams regarding complex clinical presentations and challenging behaviors, including aggression, self-harm, emotional dysregulation, and behaviors that may interfere with treatment or safe discharge planning.
• Provide clinical supervision and mentorship to doctoral psychology interns and graduate students.
• Contribute to the educational mission of the hospital through case discussions, clinical presentations, interdisciplinary teaching, and other educational activities.
• Participate in educational activities led by colleagues and contribute to a culture of interdisciplinary learning and professional development.
• Participate in or develop research and quality-improvement projects related to inpatient psychiatry, psychological assessment, risk assessment, and evidence-based clinical practice.
• Complete timely clinical documentation, including progress notes, treatment plan objectives and interventions, assessment reports, and other required documentation.
• Adhere to New Hampshire Hospital’s core values of integrity, collaboration, person-centeredness, compassion, and excellence.

What Dartmouth-Hitchcock has to offer you:

• Established patient base and referral streams
• Collegial and inclusive environment
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and relocation
• Dedicated CME time and funds

What New Hampshire has to offer you:

• Unmatched quality of life
• Four seasons and an outdoor lifestyle
• Access to major cities and airports
• Proximity to mountains and hiking trails
• Driving distance to the seacoast/ocean
• No sate sales or income tax in NH!

New Hampshire Hospital has a long tradition of providing excellent care to people who develop mental illnesses. We provide acute, inpatient psychiatric services for adults and the elderly who need active treatment and other essential supports within a continuum of community-based care. Specialized diagnostic and therapeutic services are provided for 2000 patients each year, keeping our 168 beds full. Half of hospital patients are discharged within ten days. Approximately 600 staff include board certified psychiatrists, general medical services, specialized nursing, allied clinical, administrative and support personnel. To meet our patient’s needs, our goal is to provide for smooth access to services; safety, sensitivity, and compassion in daily care; skill and attentiveness from physicians/residents and nurses; timely, helpful therapies; accommodation of family needs and visits; a clean, restful environment; adequate food and nutrition; timely, clear aftercare planning; and our patients to have an overall feeling of improvement on discharge. This represents a standard of care we would want for our loved ones and ourselves should we be in need of such services.

The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry, and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, the Dartmouth Children’s Hospital; 4 affiliated hospitals, and 30 ambulatory clinics across the region.

Dartmouth Health is highly dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive group of faculty, staff, and trainees to meet the vast needs of our community and patient populations. We are especially interested in applicants who are able to work effectively with and care for individuals from all backgrounds, including but not limited to: racial and ethnic minorities, women, individuals who identify with LGBTQ+ communities, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and/or individuals from lower income backgrounds. We invite applicants to state in their cover letter how their professional and/or life experiences prepare them to advance Dartmouth Health’s commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Minimum Qualifications:

• • Completion of a doctoral degree (PhD or PsyD) in clinical or counseling psychology from an APA- or CPA-accredited program.
  • Completion of a predoctoral internship from an APA- or CPA-accredited internship program.

Required Licensure/Certification Skills:

• Licensed or license eligible as a psychologist in the state of NH.

Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.